September 1998

Morneau, Vineburg to lead 'Catholic-Jewish Dialogue'

GREEN BAY -- A "Catholic-Jewish Dialogue" featuring Bishop Robert Morneau of the Green Bay Catholic diocese and Rabbi Sidney Vineburg of Cnesses Israel Congregation will be the focus when the Critical Issues for Faith Communities series resumes next month in Green Bay.

The two local religious leaders will be keynote speakers and discussion facilitators for the workshop "Our Search for God, God's Search for Us: A Catholic-Jewish Dialogue." The program begins at noon Thursday, Oct. 8, in the Ecumenical Center at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay.

The workshop opens the third year of Critical Issues programs which address current issues in the church and provide continuing education for clergy members, congregational leaders, students and people of all denominations. Organizers are the Brown County Clergy Association, the Ecumenical Center, and UW-Green Bay's Office of Outreach and Extension and the academic program in humanistic studies.

The Oct. 8 workshop opens with a keynote luncheon in which Morneau and Vineburg will each present historical perspective from their respective faith traditions. Those attending will have the option of registering only for the keynote luncheon and a brief question-and-answer session until 2 p.m., or registering for the full afternoon of discussion and interaction with both speakers and other participants, with adjournment at 3:30 p.m.

Morneau was ordained auxiliary bishop of Green Bay in 1979. He has served as diocesan director for religion and instructor of philosophy at Silver Lake College, and as an instructor at the Summer Theological Institute of St. Norbert Abbey. His writings appear frequently in periodicals including Contemplative Review, Spiritual Life and Pastoral Life Magazine. Morneau holds a master's in philosophy from Catholic University in Washington, D.C.

Vineburg is an adjunct assistant professor of religious studies at St. Norbert College and is a director of the Wisconsin Society for Jewish Learning. He is active in a variety of community organizations, sits on the Wisconsin Advisory Committee to the United States Commission on Civil Rights, and is a two-term past president of the Brown County Clergy Association. Vineburg holds degrees in religious studies and Jewish Philosophy and a Ph.D. in religion from Barrington University in Iowa.

The registration fee is $38 for the entire session including lunch and instructional materials, or $25 for those attending only the keynote luncheon. To register, or for more information, contact the UW-Green Bay Office of Outreach and Extension at 920-465-2164.

GREEN BAY -- Students and members of the community are invited to the second annual Volunteer Fair on Wednesday, Oct. 7, at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay.

The event runs from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. in the Phoenix Room on the second level of the University Union.

Representatives of 50 volunteer organizations will be available to answer questions and discuss opportunities for community involvement.

Individuals seeking more information about the event, and agencies interested in taking part as exhibitors, are directed to contact the UW-Green Bay Office of Student Life at 920-465-2200, ext. 40.

GREEN BAY -- Singers, actors, music educators, health care professionals and others concerned with the voice are invited to the first Vocal Health Mini-Conference set for Wednesday, October 7 in Fort Howard Hall of the Weidner Center at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay.

The anatomy and physiology of the voice, vocal technique, vocal health, and regional resources will be covered in the day-long program beginning with a reception at 8:30 a.m.

The free conference is organized by UW-Green Bay's Communication and the Arts, Education, and Nursing programs, and is supported by the University's Research Council.

Sessions begin at 9 a.m. with Iowa State University Professors Janet Alcorn, a certified McClosky voice technician, and Donald Simonson, chair of the voice division, discussing the biomechanics, anatomy and physiology of vocal production. Simonson also maintains a research lab in vocal acoustics and efficiency at Iowa State.

The Alexander Technique, a way to change habits that interfere with optimum function, is the subject at 10:30 a.m. for Mary Stuyvesant Eagle, Iowa City. She is a certified teacher of the technique developed by F. Matthias Alexander.

Afternoon sessions begin with presentations on maintaining vocal health and preventing vocal problems presented by an otolaryngologist and two certified speech-language pathologists. Dr. James R. Clemens, Prevea Clinic, completed a residency in otolaryngology at the University of Cincinnati and works with the Speech Pathology Department at St. Vincent Hospital. Karma L. Paluck and Karla Miranda, St. Vincent Hospital, both have extensive specialized training and work with adults with communicative, cognitive language, swallowing and voice disorders.

Guest speakers will be available for questions in the closing sessions.

Although the conference is free, participants are asked to reserve space by calling the UW-Green Bay Nursing Office at 920-465-2826.

GREEN BAY -- Registrations are still being accepted for "Focus on Effective Parent Education," a one-day workshop on Friday, Oct. 2, for professionals who teach or administer parent education programs.

The workshop, organized by the Office of Outreach and Extension at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay, takes place from 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. in the University Union on the UW-Green Bay campus.

The session is designed for individuals and organizations who work with families, including parent-teacher organizations, churches, child care providers, health care providers, resource and referral programs and other organizations. For additional information, call the Office of Outreach at 920-465-2164.

GREEN BAY -- Musician and story-teller Danny Rael will present a program, "Ancient Echoes," at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 14 at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay. The free event in the Phoenix Room of University Union will be followed by a reception.

An accomplished musician on the Native American flute, Rael has increasingly blended other influences.

"I'm probably one of the first flutists to incorporate native flute music with technology," he says, of his use of a synthesizer to blend in ambient sounds. Rael's newest combination is what he terms "Nazz" - Native jazz. Rael was a jazz saxophonist and played with professional groups in the Los Angeles area while he was earning a degree in political science from UCLA. Both influences can be heard on his newest CD, "Winter Solstice."

Rael is a member of the Mescalero Apache tribe of southern New Mexico, where his grandfather was a tribal story-teller. Rael began performing as a story-teller and as a traditional dancer in pow-wows across the country even before he began performing on the flute.

Rael has appeared in several major films and gives concerts all over the world. He lives in Colorado where he is the northern Colorado representative for the Colorado Indian Education Association.

The program is sponsored by the UW-Green Bay Office of Student Life. The number for program information is 920-465-2400.

GREEN BAY -- Coaching baseball in Poland and living in Czechoslovakia while it split into two are among the inspirations for an award winning writer who'll read from his work on Wednesday, Sept. 30 at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay.

Gary Gildner will present the free public reading at 7 p.m. in the Phoenix Room of the University Union on the campus. Gildner is the author of 11 books of poetry, four works of prose fiction, and a memoir, The Warsaw Sparks, which will be featured in the reading.

The Warsaw Sparks is based on Gildner's experience as the coach of a baseball team in Warsaw, Poland, during the year he spent as a Fulbright lecturer at the University of Warsaw. The book, published in 1990, has received enthusiastic reviews from baseball publications, as well as in literary venues.

Gildner's most recent book of poetry is The Bunker in the Parsley Fields (1997). Many of the poems come from his experiences in 1992-93, when his year as a Fulbright lecturer at Safarik University in Czechslovakia coincided with the country's split into Slovakia and the Czech Republic.

The Bunker in the Parsley Fields won the 1996 Iowa Poetry Prize. Gildner has won many other prestigious awards over the past 25 years, including the Theodore Roethke Poetry Prize, the William Carlos Williams Poetry Prize, the Pushcart Prize for Fiction, and the National Magazine Award for Fiction.

Gildner, a Michigan native who grew up in Flint, also once lived in the Upper Peninsula. He is a professor of English emeritus at Drake University in Iowa, and now lives in Idaho.

Gildner's appearance at UW-Green Bay is part of the Contemporary Issues Series sponsored by the Office of Student Life.

GREEN BAY -- A political scientist who has written widely on issues of the poor, welfare, and politics will speak at noon Friday, Oct. 2 in Rose Hall Room 250 at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay.

Frances Fox Piven, distinguished professor at The Graduate School of the City University of New York, will speak on, "The Rich, the Poor, and American Politics." The free lecture is the first in the 1998-99 series sponsored by the UW-Green Bay Center for History and Social Change.

Piven is co-author of The Breaking of the American Social Compact and Regulating the Poor. She is author of several other books, including Why Americans Don't Vote and The Mean Season. Piven's work has received many awards including a Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Sociological Association.

GREEN BAY -- A public slide lecture at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay is on the schedule for nationally known painter and printmaker Emmi Whitehorse, who will be a visiting artist Thursday through Saturday, Sept. 24 through 26, at UW-Green Bay and the Oneida Nation.

Whitehorse will present the free slide lecture on her work at 7 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 24 in the Christie Theatre in University Union on the UW-Green Bay campus.

A Navaho, Whitehorse was born on the reservation in New Mexico and grew up in a family of weavers. Her own art is abstract and incorporates symbols from Native American culture, her own personal vision, and the things that have influenced her throughout life. Nature is especially important. Says Whitehorse, who grew up with responsibility for tending sheep, "As a child, I spent a lot of time out in the open - observing nature, listening to it." Whitehorse has two degrees from the University of New Mexico: a bachelor's in painting and a master's in printmaking. Her work has been shown around the U. S. and in Germany, and is in many public and private collections. Whitehorse lives near Santa Fe.

Whitehorse's visit to Green Bay is jointly sponsored by the student Art Agency, Intertribal Student Council, and American Intercultural Center at UW-Green Bay and by the Oneida Tribe of Indians.

GREEN BAY -- Charles Dufano, Iowa City, Iowa, has received the 1998 Outstanding Thesis Award from the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay Graduate Program.

Dufano completed a master's degree in Community Human Services with a thesis entitled, "Examination of Childless Gay Men's Consideration of Fatherhood and Perceived Needs for Community Resources." Dufano's UW-Green Bay thesis committee included Professors Tracy Luchetta and Timothy J. Sewall, and Dean Carol A. Pollis, who chaired the group.

Dufano has two bachelor's degrees: one in communicative disorders from UW-Stevens Point, and one in nutritional science from the University of Iowa.

GREEN BAY -- The French connection to local and regional history is the topic for the annual meeting of The Center for French Colonial Studies Friday through Sunday, Oct. 16 through 18 in Green Bay. University Union on the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay campus is the site for the Saturday, Oct. 17 conference.

Among speakers at the Saturday session is Robert L. Hall, an eighth-generation Green Bay native, professor emeritus at the University of Illinois-Chicago, and a curator at the Field Museum in Chicago. UW-Green Bay Prof. William G. Laatsch will present on Northeast Wisconsin's Walloon-Belgian community. Other speakers include James R. Hansen of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin, Kerry A. Trask of UW College-Manitowoc, and independent researcher John Zasada. Saturday's events start with registration at 8 a.m.; presentations begin at 9 a.m.

The Saturday dinner at the Radisson features a "marriage" of Oneida and French cuisine in observance of one of the conference themes: French-Indian relations, says UW-Green Bay Prof. Kenneth J. Fleurant.

The conference opens with a 6 p.m. reception on Friday, Oct. 16 at the Neville Public Museum, hosted by UW-Green Bay's Humanistic Studies, Modern Language, and History departments. On Sunday, Oct. 18, conference goers will have a guided tour of Heritage Hill State Park.

The Center for French Colonial Studies focuses on research and understanding of the Midwest's French heritage.

The conference is open to all. Registration deadline is Oct. 9. For complete program and fee information, contact Fleurant at 920-465-2491.

GREEN BAY -- James A. Felton is the new coordinator of the American Intercultural Center at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay.

Felton comes to Green Bay from Maryland where he was director of multicultural services for the Office of Academic Affairs at Western Maryland College, Westminster. He also has experience working in college admissions.

At UW-Green Bay, Felton will implement programs supporting enrolled students of color, lead in recruiting and retaining minority students, promote multicultural awareness on campus, and supervise student organizations for African-American, American Indian, Latino and Southeast Asian students.

Felton earned bachelor's and master's degrees from Western Maryland. He has presented programs on diversity to various audiences, leading diversity training workshops for college student affairs professionals and addressing the multicultural environment of college campuses to new college students at orientations.

GREEN BAY -- A few openings remain on a one-day motor coach excursion to Chicago to view the Mary Cassatt: Modern Woman exhibit at the Art Institute of Chicago. Saturday, Oct. 31, is the date for the trip organized by the Office of Outreach and Extension at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay.

The registration fee of $60 includes round-trip bus transportation, entrance fee, and an Art Institute audio tour. The Green Bay group will be led by Barbara McClure-Lukens, Outreach program coordinator, and Tomas Galaty, UW-Green Bay curator of art.

The Art Institute exhibit features nearly one hundred of the artist's best-known or rarely seen paintings, prints and pastels, including her signature studies of women and children. Cassatt was the only American to become an established member of the famed Impressionist circle in Paris.

The day begins with a 7:30 a.m. departure from Green Bay, and allows time for lunch at the Art Institute, a tour of the exhibit, additional free time at the Art Institute or nearby Chicago attractions, and dinner at a Greek restaurant before an evening return trip to Green Bay. The cost of meals is not included in the registration fee.

For information on the Mary Cassatt: Modern Woman art trip sponsored by the UW-Green Bay Office of Outreach and Extension, call 920-465-2102.

All programs run from 7:30 to 9 a.m. in the Phoenix Room on the second level of the University Union at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay. Registration is $15 for a single session or $55 for the four-part series. The series is organized by CESA #7 and the UW-Green Bay Office of Outreach and Extension in cooperation with the university's Professional Program in Education and UW-Extension.

The opening program will feature an innovative approach to exploring how schools can use data to assess and improve student learning. The presenter is education researcher and Prof. Francine Tompkins, chairperson of the education program at UW-Green Bay and director of the Institute for Learning based in Green Bay. Other presenters include training consultant Dick Tepp, longtime director of curriculum for Seymour Community Schools, Nov. 18; David Johnston, assistant superintendent of the La Crosse Public Schools, Feb. 17; and Kent Peterson, professor of educational administration at UW-Madison and the nationally known author of books including The Leadership Paradox and The Principal's Role in Shaping School Culture, April 28.

Organizers say the programs are designed for superintendents, principals, curriculum directors, assistant and associate principals and all other student services personnel as well as for business people interested in forging strong partnerships with local schools.

Each program includes a continental breakfast. Application has been made for Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction clock hours. Registration information is available by calling 920-465-2480 or 1-800-892-2118.

Each of the Wednesday programs begins at noon in the University Union, in the World Unity Room on the Union's lower level. The public can attend by stopping for directions and a visitor's pass at the parking booth along the main entrance boulevard.

GREEN BAY - The University of Wisconsin-Green Bay announced its final enrollment today (Sept. 18) for fall semester 1998, with a record number of new freshmen and a new high for FTE (full-time equivalent) enrollment.

The Office of Institutional Research reports a total headcount enrollment of 5,598 students. UW-Green Bay established enrollment records in the following categories:

* Total FTE - 4,462, which surpassed both the institution's fall 1998 goal of 4,322 and its previous high of 4,336 FTE, in 1996;

* New freshmen headcount - 1,022, just above the 1996 figure, and;

* New freshman FTE - 910, or twenty more than the 1996 record.

The report finds a continuation of a decade-long trend at UW-Green Bay toward more full-time students. The UW System uses fall-semester FTE - fifteen credits equals one FTE - as its primary measure of enrollment and institutional capacity. At UW-Green Bay, for example, this year's total headcount is several dozen students short of the record of 5,635, set in 1994, but with more full-time students this fall surpassed by nearly 150 that year's FTE total of 4,307.

The FTE count is up 2.9 percent from last fall, and headcount is up 3.3 percent. Planners say the University was able to admit a larger number of new freshmen for this fall because of slightly higher graduation rates and larger graduating classes over the previous year.

GREEN BAY - The $4.6 million expansion of the Edward W. Weidner Center for the Performing Arts was formally dedicated today (Friday, Sept. 18) in ceremonies at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay.

The ceremony in the center's newly enlarged grand foyer featured remarks by Mark Perkins, UW-Green Bay chancellor; founding chancellor Edward Weidner; architect Edward Wenzler; Frederick Schmidt, president of Weidner Center Presents, Inc.; and Tom Gabbard, the center's executive director.

The event afforded campus and community leaders an opportunity to express appreciation to major donors Dr. David A. and Mary Ann Cofrin. Representatives of 13 performing arts organizations - including UW-Green Bay students, groups such as the Pamiro Opera, area schoolchildren and community volunteers - stepped forward one-by-one to present long-stemmed roses to the Cofrins.

Speakers said a primary focus of the expansion was to strengthen the link between the University's academic programs and the Weidner Center, and respond to increased academic use of the center by UW-Green Bay students and faculty. A centerpiece of the project is the new 1,500-square-foot Studio Two with space for theatre classroom instruction, music recitals and small ensemble performances.

Other elements of the project address patron-comfort issues, the needs of production companies and performers, and scheduling conflicts that have arisen as use of the Weidner has increased.

Most visible to the public is the expansion of the main lobby, or grand foyer, which has nearly doubled in size. Additional modifications to public spaces include the addition of a pedestrian canopy on the east side of the facility, and creation of a bus lane to accommodate increasing tour-group traffic. Also added were new backstage storage areas and dressing rooms, office areas, loading docks, restrooms on the west (or ticket office) side of the building, and additional public and service elevators for use by patrons and catering services.

Weidner officials say the expansion will enhance revenue generation for the center by providing additional space for catering and special events. In addition, creation of the mezzanine-lobby dinner and reception area should free Fort Howard Hall and Studio One for additional classroom and student recital use.

Planners note that during construction of the $18 million facility, which opened in 1993, a priority was placed on acoustics and related "inside-the-hall" amenities. Unprecedented demand for the center's programs and facilities soon led to talk of expansion, and announcement of the Cofrin gift was made in October 1996. The addition increases the size of the center from 84,000 to 108,000 square feet of space.

GREEN BAY -- Rhoda Bagley, deputy clerk for the town of Mukwonago, was among the graduates of the Wisconsin Municipal Clerks and Treasurers Institute during 1998.

Bagley was one of 47 clerks and treasurers who this year completed the final program of the three-year sequence or the fourth year of completion for those holding the clerk/treasurer position. This program is designed to advance the professional development of local government officials in Wisconsin.

Each summer, municipal clerks, treasurers and other officials from across the state participate in a week of continuing education courses on the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay campus organized by the University's Office of Outreach and Extension. The Institute curriculum consists of three, one-week annual programs with at least 33 hours of classroom instruction per program. This year's program took place the week of July 12-17.

Course work focuses on the development of technical skills - with an eye on keeping current on rapidly changing technology, regulations and other factors - as well as development of administrative knowledge, leadership abilities and financial management. Faculty members and participants engage in free-flowing exchange of information, share job-related experiences, network with colleagues, and examine factors that contribute to successful on-the-job performance by municipal officials.

The Wisconsin Municipal Clerks Institute was begun in 1978; since the first graduating class in 1980 nearly 420 clerks have received certificates. A similar program was begun for Wisconsin's municipal treasurers in 1983; a total of 98 treasurers have graduated from that program.

Local government officials completing the three-year sequence of programs earn all of the education points needed for national certification, with additional points earned by experience in local government and participation in other meetings and educational seminars. Officials holding the title of both clerk and treasurer are eligible to receive both the clerk's and treasurer's certification by completing a fourth year at the institute.

The clerks institute at UW-Green Bay is accredited by the International Institute of Municipal Clerks and by the Wisconsin Municipal Clerks Association. The treasurers institute is accredited by the Municipal Treasurers Association of the United States and Canada, and by the Municipal Treasurers Association of Wisconsin.

GREEN BAY - The University of Wisconsin-Green Bay opens the fall semester today (Sept. 2) assured of a record number of new freshmen and a new high for FTE (full-time equivalent) enrollment.

The Office of Institutional Research released a first-day enrollment report which projects a total headcount enrollment of 5,500 students. Final numbers will be available in two weeks after registration closes for graduate students and non-degree-seeking, part-time students.

The report says UW-Green Bay is all but certain to top previous enrollment records in the following categories:

Total FTE - 4,400, which will surpass both the institution's fall 1998 goal of 4,322 and its previous high of 4,336 FTE, in 1996;

New freshmen headcount - 1,020, just above the 1996 figure, and;

New freshmen FTE - 900, or ten more than the 1996 record.

The report finds a continuation of a decade-long trend at UW-Green Bay toward more full-time students. The UW System uses FTE -- fifteen credits equals one FTE -- as its primary measure of enrollment and institutional capacity. At UW-Green Bay, for example, this year's total headcount will fall about 150 short of the record of 5,635, set in 1994, but with more full-time students the University will surpass by nearly 100 that year's FTE total of 4,307.

Planners say the University was able to admit a larger number of new freshmen for this fall because of slightly higher graduation rates and larger graduating classes over the previous year.

GREEN BAY - The tenth photography exhibit originated by the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay opens the Lawton Gallery season on Tuesday, Sept. 8, and continues through October 10. A reception for the Midwest Photography Invitational X is from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Sept. 15 at the Gallery.

Forty artists from around the country are represented by 75 images in the exhibit selected by guest curator Jerry Dell, a member of the UW-Green Bay faculty.

The exhibit includes work by five Wisconsin artists: Dean Himmelreich, Milwaukee; John Hoffman, Madison; Philip Krejcarek, Dousman; David W. Lundahl, Beloit, and Vicki Reed, Cedarburg. Also represented is Terri Warpinski, Eugene, Ore., a Green Bay native.

The exhibit represents a range of photographic media from "straight" black and white prints to an installation incorporating bricks, flowers, candles and paint. The installation by Minnesota artist Keith Holmes is a memorial to those who died in ethnic strife in Croatia.

"Again we delight in the exciting diversity of concepts and processes cheerfully coexisting in photography," says Dell, who has curated all but one of the every-other-year exhibits since 1980.

Following the UW-Green Bay exhibition, the show will tour to nine other sites in the Midwest and near-South from January 1999 to April 2000. Other Wisconsin venues include the Carlsten Gallery, UW-Stevens Point, from January 25 to February 14, 1999; Wisconsin Union Galleries at UW-Madison from June 1 to July 15, 1999; and the Rahr-West Museum, Manitowoc, from November 7 to December 5, 1999.

Lawton Gallery hours are 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday. The gallery is located in Theatre Hall directly east of the Weidner Center.

GREEN BAY - An outdoor fair, live music, food, children's events, an amateur golf tournament, the inauguration of a Phoenix-shaped corn maze, and three soccer games highlight Fall Festival Thursday through Sunday, Sept. 10-13 at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay.

An outdoor fair from noon to 7 p.m. on Saturday, Sept. 12, in the University Union courtyard offers an array of activities including horse-drawn wagon rides, live music by the UW-Green Bay Jazz Ensemble and the groups, Blind Man's Bluff, Gizzae, Big Mouth and 3 Minute Hero, and transportation to the Phoenix corn maze co-sponsored by Baylake Bank.

Soccer games at Phoenix Field include a soccer alumni homecoming game at 11:30 a.m. and a Phoenix men's game vs. Loyola at 2 p.m., both on Saturday, Sept. 12, and a Phoenix women's game vs. Illinois State at noon on Sunday, Sept. 13. The amateur golf tournament at the Shorewood course kicks off at 9 a.m. on Saturday, Sept. 12.

Other music events include a free dance to swing band era music at 8 p.m. on Thursday, Sept. 10 in the Phoenix Rooms of University Union, and a rock concert with Watershed and The Gufs at 7 p.m. in the Union courtyard on Friday, Sept. 11.

The corn maze adjacent to Baylake Bank on Bay Settlement Road will be open from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday, Sept. 12 and 13, and every weekend following through October. Proceeds benefit UW-Green Bay athletics and participating student organizations.

The number for Fall Festival schedule details is 920-465-2074.