May 1999

Commencement speaker followed unique path to international business career

GREEN BAY - Gary Urban, president of Perini America Latina, Inc. in Coral Gables, Fla., returns to the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay campus to present the commencement address Saturday, May 22. Urban graduated from UW-Green Bay in 1984. He pursued his interests in Spanish, Italian, music, travel and business to become an entrepreneur and business executive.

Commencement ceremonies begin at noon in the campus amphitheater, or in the Weidner Center for the Performing Arts in case of inclement weather. Chancellor Mark Perkins will preside. Approximately 555 graduates are eligible to attend.

Urban spent his youth in Milwaukee before moving to Green Bay with his family in his teens. He graduated from Preble High School in 1976. During the next four years, Urban traveled extensively in the western United States and earned his living as a blues harmonica player. He also traveled in Europe, including a month in Italy that spurred his interest in language study. Urban studied Spanish at UW-Green Bay, including a year in Spain during which he formed a musical duo that performed blues and country music at nightclubs and festivals throughout the country. Urban received his bachelor's degree at UW-Green Bay in 1984 with a major in Spanish and minor in business administration and international studies. He is fluent in Spanish and Italian.

Urban worked for 18 months as a bilingual State of Wisconsin probation and parole agent in Milwaukee. In 1986, he joined Italian-based Perini America, Inc. as a sales executive in the Latin American market. Perini America, Inc. is a Green Bay company that manufactures paper converting machinery. In 1990, Urban was asked to organize and direct a new office to better serve Perini's Latin American customers. As president of Perini America Latina, Inc., Urban leads a multilingual team of seven that expects sales this year in excess of $25 million.

Urban, his wife and two children live in Coral Gables. His parents, Gerald and Nancy Urban, and several siblings live in Green Bay.

GREEN BAY -- Green Bay residents Ma Moua and Tina Marie Sauerhammer will receive the 1999 Outstanding Student Award at University of Wisconsin-Green Bay commencement ceremonies Saturday, May 22. The award is presented by the UW-Green Bay Alumni Association at each commencement in recognition of academic achievement and service to the university and community. Daniel J. Walter, president of the Alumni Association, will present the award.

Moua will graduate cum laude with a bachelor of science degree in philosophy. She plans to pursue a law degree. Earlier this year, she was cited for excellence in academic course work and applied and theoretical research projects. Moua has done significant research on Hmong adolescents in Green Bay and St. Paul. Her research project, Role Models for Hmong Adolescents, was presented at the fourth annual Hmong Educational Conference in Denver.

Moua coordinates the "Coming Home Project" in Green Bay, an intervention project for Hmong youth administered by Family Services Association. She also serves as a member of the Mentor Association for Green Bay Public Schools. At UW-Green Bay, she is founder and president of People Educating and Communicating Everywhere (PEACE) a campus organization to expand knowledge of the ethnic and cultural backgrounds of UW-Green Bay students. She also serves as multicultural issues director for the Student Government Association. Moua is the daughter of Neng Ker and Chee Lee Moua, St. Paul, Minn.

Sauerhammer receives her degree at age 18 with highest honors and double majors in human biology and human development. Her honors research project in cellular biology was presented this spring at the UW Undergraduate Research Symposium. She plans to attend medical school to further her lifelong interests in pediatrics, research and teaching. Sauerhammer will be the graduating class speaker at commencement.

Sauerhammer entered UW-Green Bay as a full-time student at age 14, having completed high school and advanced courses by eighth grade. She is the youngest student to graduate from UW-Green Bay. She is a member of Phi Eta Sigma, Phi Kappa Phi and Beta Beta Beta honor societies and serves as a campus lab tutor teaching chemistry and biology.

Sauerhammer also performs with the UW-Green Bay Concert Choir and as a cellist in the Green Bay Civic Symphony. Other community interests include volunteer activities at Bellin Hospital, Curative Rehabilitation Center, Montessori Children's World and Room at the Inn. Sauerhammer won the 1997 Miss Wisconsin Teen Pageant and in 1998 was named Miss Wisconsin Coed (focusing on Community and Education activities) and Miss American Coed runner-up. Sauerhammer is the daughter of Randall and Oki Sauerhammer of Green Bay.

GREEN BAY - Eight retiring University of Wisconsin-Green Bay faculty members will receive emeriti titles at commencement ceremonies at noon on Saturday, May 22. Professors emeriti are faculty members with distinguished service who remain professionally active after retiring from teaching.

The eight represent long commitments to higher education and to UW-Green Bay. Eugenia A. Erdmann joined UW-Green Bay after retiring in 1987 from Kent State University in Ohio, where she had taught for 20 years. The other seven all came to UW-Green Bay between 1967 and 1969, and were instrumental in shaping the University, which first began offering classes as a four-year institution in 1968. They are Norbert H. Gaworek, Gary F. Greif, Hallet J. (Bud) Harris, Charles A. Ihrke, Paul E. Sager, E. Michael Thron, and Robert B. Wenger.

Harris, Sager, and Wenger are all members of the Natural and Applied Sciences faculty. Harris and Sager are biologists and Wenger is a mathematician.

Hallett J. (Bud) Harris has devoted years to the study of water quality and coastal wetlands in the Green Bay watershed and is active on the national and international level on issues of water and wetland quality. Harris has been director of the UW-Green Bay Institute for Land and Water Studies since 1984, was twice chair of the Natural and Applied Sciences undergraduate program, and coordinates a specialization for the Environmental Science and Policy graduate program. He received the Founders Association award for excellence in scholarship in 1988, and in 1989 was named Herbert Fisk Johnson Professor in Environmental Studies. Harris has long been active in the community in areas of his expertise, and is the author of two published State of the Bay reports. Harris earned his bachelor's degree at Coe College, and master's and Ph.D. degrees at Iowa State University.

Paul E. Sager has been director of the Cofrin Memorial Arboretum, which encircles the campus, since 1989. His research has focused on two major problems of the bay of Green Bay ecosystem: excessive algae growth and decreased underwater light. He has been a member of advisory committees to the Department of Natural Resources and to the Green Bay Remedial Action Plan, and served as UW System representative to the DNR's Natural Areas Preservation Council. At UW-Green Bay, Sager has served as an associate vice chancellor for academic affairs, chair of both the Natural and Applied Sciences and Biology undergraduate programs, and as coordinator of a specialization in the Environmental Science and Policy graduate program. He received two Founders Association awards for excellence - for scholarship in 1978 and for institutional development in 1993 -and was awarded the Barbara Hauxhurst Cofrin Professorship in Natural Sciences in 1986. Sager's bachelor's degree is from the University of Michigan School of Natural Resources, and his master's and Ph.D. degrees are from UW-Madison.

Robert B. Wenger's research applies mathematical modeling techniques to environmental problems such as solid waste management, water quality management, and ecological risk assessment. Working with Harris, Wenger has developed a method for assessing ecological risks in specific ecosystems. With other UW-Green Bay colleagues, he is co-author of a book, Waste Management and Resource Recovery. He has been chair of the UW System Solid Waste Research Council and has been active in Brown County solid waste issues. A former visiting professor at the University of Aalborg, Denmark, and at Beijing Normal University in China, Wenger will make his third trip to China this summer to work with scientists there. Wenger has been chair of the Natural and Applied Sciences undergraduate program, and led its student scholarship committee for several years, and also has served as chair of Mathematics. Wenger received the 1985 Founders Association award for excellence in institutional development, and was named Barbara Hauxhurst Cofrin Professor of Natural Sciences in 1997. Wenger's degrees are from Eastern Mennonite College (bachelor's), Pennsylvania State University (master's), and the University of Pittsburgh (Ph.D.).

Gaworek, Greif, and Thron are members of the Humanistic Studies faculty.

A historian, Norbert H. Gaworek's field is modern European history, especially the history of Germany and Russia. Gaworek spent a semester at the University of Kharkov, Ukraine, as an exchange faculty member, and led several UW-Green Bay student study trips to Germany and Eastern Europe. He served many terms as chair of the History program and was a long-term member of the University's International Studies Committee. Gaworek is founder of The History Fund, Inc., which sponsored publication of a scholarly book in honor of the late Schaefer Williams, a faculty member in UW-Green Bay's early years. Active in the Brown County Historical Society since the mid-1970s, Gaworek is the founding editor of its periodical, Voyageur, which began publication in 1982. For many years, he taught a senior-level history seminar in which students did original research in the Northeast Wisconsin region. Gaworek's degrees through the Ph.D. are from UW-Madison.

Gary F. Greif is a philosopher with particular interests in social and political philosophy. His research has included interdisciplinary studies in the humanities linking to psychology and political science, and he has taught and co-taught courses which drew from literature, art, history, and other disciplines, along with philosophy. With other faculty members, Greif is co-editor and co-author of a book, Revolutions in Art and Ideas at the Turn of the 20th Century. He has received study and course development grants from the UW System Institute on Race and Ethnicity and from the National Endowment for the Humanities. Greif twice served as chair of Philosophy, and just completed a term as chair of the Humanistic Studies program. He taught for a semester at Aalborg University, Denmark, through faculty exchange. Greif earned bachelor's and master's degrees at Gonzaga University, and a Ph.D. at the University of Toronto.

E. Michael Thron's teaching and scholarship has been in English Romantic literature and Shakespeare and he is a former chair of the English program. He has led many student study trips to Great Britain. Thron initiated the University's Writing Center, which consolidated teaching and learning about writing into one location. He was its first director and oversaw the introduction of computers into writing instruction. Thron has served the University as an associate vice chancellor and as Secretary of the Faculty and Academic Staff. In faculty governance, he was the first speaker of the Faculty Senate, and is a former chair of the University Committee. Thron received the UW-Green Bay Founders Award for Institutional Development in 1998. His bachelor's, master's, and Ph.D. degrees are all from the University of Nebraska.

Eugenia A. Erdmann, whose field is theater and dance, is in the Communication and the Arts program. She joined UW-Green Bay after a career at Kent State University in Ohio where she established the dance major and headed the program. A scholarship was founded in Erdman's name after she retired. In addition to teaching at UW-Green Bay, Erdmann choreographed many of its theater and dance productions. She also acted in several University -produced plays, including the Midwest premiere of No Language But a Cry. Erdman was co-founder with her husband, the late Louis O. Erdmann, of NEWACE Social Action Theater, a traveling troupe that promoted cultural diversity throughout Wisconsin and in other states. The project won for the couple an outstanding service award from the Midwest chapter of the National University Continuing Education Association. Erdmann completed degrees through the Ph.D. at Kent State University.

Charles A. Ihrke is a member of the Human Biology faculty. He taught thousands of students over the years in lecture and laboratory sections of the introductory Human Biology course, as well as teaching several different courses in his research area of genetics. He developed an interdisciplinary course in human genetics which was one of the first such courses offered for undergraduates in the Midwest. Ihrke is co-author of a laboratory manual, Biology With Cells. In 1984, he was awarded the UW-Green Bay Founders Association award for excellence in teaching. Ihrke has been chair of both the Biology and Human Biology programs, and for 15 years chaired the University 's Prior Learning Council, which evaluates credits for students who develop personal majors. Ihrke was chair of the University's Intercollegiate Athletics Committee from 1981 on, and is a former faculty representative to the NCAA and to athletic conferences. He has long had involvement with Bellin College of Nursing and currently serves on its Board of Trustees. Ihrke earned his bachelor's degree at UW-Oshkosh, a master's at the University of Nebraska, Omaha, and a Ph.D. at Oregon State University.

GREEN BAY -- Twenty-five graduating seniors at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay have been selected to receive the 1999 Chancellor's Medallion in recognition of sustained campus and community service and leadership during their university careers. The awards will be presented in a program that starts at 6 p.m. Friday, May 21, in the University Theatre.

Students receiving the Chancellor's Medallion are:

Amy Lynn Boll, Port Washington; Ryan M. Borowicz, Green Bay; Brian Gold, Cary, Ill.; Jill M. Gonzalez, Green Bay; Sarah Haen, Sturgeon Bay; Julie Hahm, Mequon; Patrick Jehle, Manitowoc; Krista Ann Johnson, Green Bay; Jed Kees, Neenah; Leau Latai, Green Bay; Anna M. Lococo, Suring; Lia Lor, Green Bay; Christy Maresh, Whitelaw; Tara Menter, Hudson; Chela Moore, Eleva; Ma Moua, Green Bay; Peres Owino, Nairobi, Kenya; Ryan Ruzziconi, Iron River, MI; Tina M. Sauerhammer, Green Bay; Sarah Schmitz, New Holstein; Stacy Schmude, Oshkosh; Nancy J. Schumitsch, Green Bay; Eunice M. Urio, Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania; Chad Eric Voskuil, Oostburg; and Kelly Marie Williams, Shawano.

Amy Lynn Boll will receive her degree with cum laude honors in music with a minor in secondary education. She has been active as an officer of the Ambassadors club and the student chapter of the Music Educators National Conference. She was a student director of the Phoenix Pep Band and has been recognized for her talents as a flutist, pianist and singer. She was principal flutist of the UW-Green Bay Wind Ensemble, was selected as piano accompanist for numerous recitals, and was named Outstanding Member of the University Concert Choir. She also had the honor of being selected to assist, as page-turner, world-renowned musicians Itzhak Perlman and James Galway when they played standing-room-only solo recitals at the Weidner Center. She took a leadership role as counselor for the UW-Green Bay summer camp program.

Ryan M. Borowicz graduates with a bachelor's degree in biology and a minor in secondary education. He served three years as an orientation assistant with the Student Orientation, Advising and Registration program, which familiarizes new students and their families with UW-Green Bay. He was a four-year member of the UW-Green Bay men's basketball team; as a senior, he was selected team captain and helped lead the Phoenix to a 20-win season. He ranked among the best three-point field goal shooters in the nation. Off the court, he served on the Student Athlete Advisory Committee. He was a bible study leader, volunteer missionary and leader of the Campus Crusade for Christ organization, and competed internationally with Athletes in Action.

Brian Gold studied marketing and will receive his bachelor's degree in business administration with a minor in public administration. His extensive involvement in university affairs and elected office included a term as president of the UW-Green Bay Student Government Association, and two years as vice-chairman of SUFAC -- the student fees allocation committee. As SGA president, he co-chaired the Campus Life for the 21st Century, took a leading role in ensuring student interaction with members of the UW System Board of Regents when that group met on campus last fall, and represented his fellow students through his service on a variety of universitywide committees. He completed a sports marketing internship with UW-Green Bay Intercollegiate Athletics. He is active with youth groups in his hometown of Cary, Ill.

Jill M. Gonzalez will receive her bachelor's of social work degree with an emphasis in child welfare and studies in criminal justice. She has been an officer and active member of the Inter-Tribal Student Council and Social Work Club on campus. She helped orient and welcome new students to the campus, and was instrumental in planning and implementation of activities for Native American Month including the very successful UW-Green Bay pow-wow. She has been a counselor and mentor for young students of color through her involvement in summer, pre-college programs aimed at helping youngsters explore their options. She completed social work internships with Oneida Social Services and Brown County Mental Health Center.

Sarah Haen will receive her bachelor's degree in public administration and political science. She completed an academic internship with the Brown County/City of Green Bay Human Resource Department. She was active on campus as a resident assistant in Housing and with student government, serving as Legislative Affairs Director for Student Government, as an officer of the College Democrats club, and as the voter registration captain for one of UW-Green Bay's most successful get-out-the-vote campaigns, in 1998. She took a leadership role in the annual March of Dimes WalkAmerica and found time to participate in university music ensembles and a variety of campus activities during her collegiate career.

Julie Hahm will receive her bachelor's degree with cum laude honors and majors in chemistry and environmental science. A four-year letter winner on the women's basketball team, she was a three-year Midwestern Collegiate Conference all-academic selection and was president of UW-Green Bay's Student Athlete Advisory Committee. She took part in student government as a member of SUFAC - the student fee allocation committee - and she was president and treasurer of the Ambassadors organization, which assists the University in initiatives and events that promote the institution. In the community, she served as a volunteer mentor through the adopt-a-school program, working once a week with troubled seventh graders.

Patrick Jehle will receive his bachelor's degree in psychology and human development with a near-perfect gradepoint average and summa cum laude (or highest) honors. He assisted the psychology and Human Development faculty as a teaching assistant in the course Introduction to Psychology, and as a research assistant on several major projects. He made presentations at both state and national conferences, including "Introduction to Psychology as Science and as Window to Self," at the 1998 American Psychological Association Conference in San Francisco. His campus activities included participation in the UW-Green Bay Jazz Ensemble and in the Residence Life program, where he earned numerous awards for outstanding programming as a resident assistant. He completed an internship with the Villa Hope Community Support Program.

Krista Ann Johnson is a returning student who will graduate summa cum laude with a bachelor's degree in English and a minor in education. She completed her senior honors project in folklore education in the fall of 1998. She is currently student teaching at De Pere High School and is a member of the National Council of Teachers of English, the Student Wisconsin Education Association, and the Nature Conservancy. She has worked with young people in the community through YMCA and Oneida Nation projects. She worked on a team of three people that helped organized the ShopKo Charity Golf Outing, which raised more than $2.5 million over two years for Special Olympics. She also served as an officer of UW-Green Bay Writer's Union.

Jed Kees will graduate with a bachelor's degree in elementary education. He has been actively involved in campus life as a resident assistant, winning "program of the year" honors for his Feud and Drinks event. He was selected as a student orientation assistant, assisting the Office of Admissions with orientation and registration of new freshmen. He played in the Phoenix wind ensemble and pep band, and was a disc jockey for the WFPR student radio station. Off campus, he was involved in supervision of youth-oriented activities including summer camps and after-school programs, and served as director of the Children's Theatre through the Neenah Park and Recreation Department.

Leau Latai will graduate with a bachelor's degree in Art. Among her many art honors and scholarships, she received the "best of show" award for one of her works in the 1997 Juried Student Art Show at UW-Green Bay's Lawton Gallery. She currently devotes much of her time to serving as co-chair for UW-Green Bay's Art Agency; the Agency has rebounded from a handful of students to 125 members. She was integral in revamping the studio arts lounge on campus, and played a large part in the Agency's events such as Empty Bowls for Hungry Souls. She also volunteers at the Green Bay Wildlife Sanctuary, serves as deacon at the Pilgrim Congregational Christian Church of Green Bay, and was employed for a year at a Green Bay area homeless shelter.

Anna M. Lococo will receive a bachelor's of social work degree. She has focused much of her academic work and volunteer activities on concerns of the homeless and the lack of affordable housing for the working poor. She conducted a study on the lack of affordable housing in the city of Green Bay, and shared the results in presentations to Brown County and United Way boards. She has assisted in fundraising efforts for local shelters and is now secretary for the Brown County Task Force for the Homeless, a communitywide organization. On campus, she served as an officer of the Social Work Club and took a leadership role in the development of a student handbook for the Social Work academic program. She completed social work internships with the Shawano County Department of Human Services and the NEW Community Shelter in Green Bay.

Lia Lor completes her bachelor's degree with a major in education and a minor in English as a Second Language. In each of her roles as student, teacher, parent and Hmong community leader, Lor is regarded as a thorough professional, a good listener and creative thinker. She serves on the United Hmong Community Center Board of Directors and chairs the Center's education development program. She also served on the UW System Diversity 2008 committee at UW-Green Bay, assisting with ideas to promote partnerships in the community, and she and a colleague direct weekly Hmong radio program through the local Wisconsin Public Radio station. She also assists ESL students at Green Bay Washington Middle School and serves as translator during parent conferences.

Christy Maresh earns her degree with honors in communication processes. She is a member of Phi Kappa Phi honor society and recipient of a University Leadership Award. Throughout her college career, Maresh has performed with the University Chorus and Concert Choir, commitment by a non-music major that was honored with the Outstanding Choral Award. She also served as a UW-Green Bay summer orientation assistant for new students and their families, and as a Weidner Center tour guide and representative at Art Street and Brown County Business Expo. Maresh was employed at the Weidner Center more than four years, where she was assigned significant responsibilities for a range of duties included membership development, training student workers and assisting with special events.

Tara Menter receives her degree in communication processes with an emphasis in public relations. She has assisted with planning and promotion of major events for the student Good Times Programming Board, including events as diverse as a campus visit by MTV on-air personalities and a guest lecture on peacekeeping by a recent Nobel Prize winner. She has served as a reporter and Lifestyle editor for The Fourth Estate campus newspaper and as a DJ for campus radio station WFPR. She won numerous awards and made several conference presentations based on her work as a resident assistant in the campus housing complex and involvement in Residence Hall and Apartment Association.

Chela Moore graduates with summa cum laude (or highest) honors with a degree in biology and a minor in humanistic studies. She received a significant national honor as a college senior when she became the only student attending a Wisconsin institution to win a scholarship from the Goldwater Excellence in Education Foundation. The prestigious award honors outstanding students in mathematics, science or engineering. She was a leader of the Round River Alliance environmental organization on campus, and was active in assisting a local community group's efforts to save old-growth woodlands in the nearby Baird Creek Parkway. Her seniors honor project focused on the impact of technology on culture and environment. She has also assisted as a research assistant on an environmental study of rare species surviving on the Niagara Escarpment, the rocky ridge which borders the UW-Green Bay campus.

Ma Moua receives her degree, with cum laude honors, in philosophy and a minor in humanistic studies. She has been selected as one of two recipients this spring of the UW-Green Bay Alumni Association's Outstanding Student Award. She was director of multicultural issues for the Student Government Association and founder and president of People Educating and Communicating Everywhere (PEACE), a campus organization to expand knowledge of the ethnic and cultural backgrounds of UW-Green Bay students. She helped as a teaching assistant in a university course on human relations. In the Green Bay community, Moua coordinates the "Coming Home Project," an intervention program for Hmong youth administered by Family Services Association. She also is a member of the Mentor Association for Green Bay Public Schools.

Peres Owino, from Nairobi, Kenya, will graduate with magna cum laude honors, earning a bachelor of arts degree in theatre and social change and development. She performed leading roles in campus productions, including On the Verge, which became a finalist in regional competition of the American College Theatre Festival and earned her a nomination for a national acting scholarship. She served as a resident assistant for two years and held leadership positions in the International Club. She has emceed the club's popular International Dinner, and she has spoken about African culture and history to classes both at UW-Green Bay and to local elementary school children. She received the UW-Green Bay Leadership Award and was named a UW System Women of Color Honoree in 1998.

Ryan Ruzziconi studies public administration and political science and receives his bachelor's degree with distinction. He has served on the first UW-Green Bay Peer Conduct Review Board, an advisory group on disciplinary matters. He also took a leadership role in the campus Law Society, organizing fundraisers along with trips to regional law forums and several law-school visits. He was chairman of the 8th Congressional District College Democrats of Wisconsin, and works with the YMCA Youth in Government program in Green Bay. He served for three years as a counselor with the UW-Green Bay summer camps program.

Tina M. Sauerhammer has been selected as one of two recipients of the UW-Green Bay Alumni Association's Outstanding Student Award, and she will be the graduating class speaker at commencement. She will graduate summa cum laude (with highest honors) and a double major in human biology and human development. She is a member of three academic honor societies and serves as a tutor in laboratory science. Her recent research has focused on intracellular signaling and genetics. Away from the labs and classrooms, she performs with the UW-Green Bay Concert Choir and the Green Bay Civic Symphony and shares her time and talents with church, community groups and Montessori Children's World in Green Bay. She received the 1997 Bellin Hospital Volunteer of the Year Award, and she won the Miss Wisconsin American Teen title in 1997.

Sarah Schmitz earns her degree in nutritional sciences with magna cum laude, or high, honors. She has been active in a variety of charitable causes both on campus and in the community. Serving two years as resident assistant, she organized and led student resident projects to provide food and volunteer help to a Green Bay food pantry, and to visit a nursing home where students and residents worked together on kitchen and crafts projects. As a member of the Dietetics Club, she led an all-university holiday food drive and arranged speakers and demonstrations at the club's spring health fair on campus. She volunteers her musical talents as an organ and keyboard accompanist for her local church and other music students.

Stacy Schmude majors in education, with minors in early childhood education and human development. She served a year as assistant teacher in a Green Bay child care center in addition to an elementary school internship. She continues as a Big Sister for a local child and she has been active in community service projects for the Circle K International Chapter on campus. She also served as executive director of Good Times Programming Board, a student organization that organizes campus events and entertainment, and she represented that organization on the UW-Green Bay Student Government Association Executive Board.

Nancy J. Schumitsch will receive her bachelor of science degree in nutritional sciences with summa cum laude, or highest, honors. As part of her honors project, she prepared and presented community programs on osteoporosis. She is a member of Tribeta and Phi Kappa Phi honor societies. She served on the student team evaluating candidates for nutritional sciences faculty positions, and has been active in student organizations including the Dietetics Club, Phi Kappa Phi honor society, the Health and Wellness Club and the returning students club. Her extensive community volunteer service includes leadership in church and school activities, including her parish's Family Life Commission, a project she co-chaired.

Eunice M. Urio, from Tanzania, studied communication processes, which included serving an internship at Wisconsin Public Television. She earns her bachelor of science degree magna cum laude, or high honors. As co-chair of the International Club, she led efforts to reinvigorate the organization's membership and restore its campus significance. As a result, members visited area grade schools to speak about their countries, mounted a weekly informational display on campus and held a sold-out International Dinner. She also took an active role in the Reading Buddies Program at Lincoln Elementary School organized by the Rotary Club of Green Bay West, and in the Green Bay Rotoract Club book drive to send books to students in other countries.

Chad Eric Voskuil will receive his bachelor's degree in human biology magna cum laude. He was selected by his department to be a teaching assistant for an upper-level course in which he led study groups and directed student study skills. He also helped prepare the National Chemistry Week Exhibit last fall for more than 150 area Cub Scouts. He has served on the first Peer Conduct Review Board and as a student member of the evaluation panel interviewing science faculty candidates. He also served as a tutor for the UW-Green Bay Athletic Department and Educational Support Services. He assisted with "Celebrating Success," a program that recognizes outstanding students of color.

Kelly Marie Williams earns her bachelor of science degree with honors and double majors in psychology and human development. She is a member of Phi Kappa Phi honor society. As a resident assistant, she received awards for best diversity awareness programs in residence life. As president of the Psychology and Human Development Organization she led a revival of the organization that earned awards as best new student organization in 1997 and most improved student organization a year later. Off campus, Williams volunteers as a Brown County Human Services mentor for delinquent youth. She also taught a leadership training program as a summer camp counselor.

GREEN BAY - Fifty-one students at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay have been named to receive the University Leadership Award. The honor recognizes outstanding academic achievement and service to the campus and community during the current school year. The awards will be presented in a program that begins at 6 p.m. Friday, May 21, in the University Theatre.

Students from Green Bay receiving the UW-Green Bay Leadership Award and their permanent home addresses are Beth Ann Block, Tina Dahle, Nathan Mitchell, Lori Nelson, Althea Reetz, and Lisa Wolgast. Recipients from Brown County are Christina Brohammer, Denmark; Jaclyn DeFrance, De Pere; Matthew Heling, Oneida; and Jaime Lane, De Pere.

UW-Green Bay Leadership Award winners from elsewhere in Wisconsin are Shawn Beattie, Oshkosh; Corey Bogenschutz, Baileys Harbor; Vicki Buettner, Shawano; Michelle Cullen, Chilton; Jean Ehrke and Theresa Ehrke, Columbus; Victoria Goode, Sussex; Kristi Hill, Appleton; Cassandra Hlavka, Racine; Kurt Kober, Sheboygan; Sarah Korb, Marion; and Angela Laux, Manitowoc.

Others receiving the award are Holly Mohr, Stanley; Holly Mueller, Pewaukee; Robyn Neff, Manitowoc; Andrea Nilsen, Union Grove; Angela Olson, Eau Claire; Julie Pasbrig, Mayville; Jennifer Pfundtner, Waupaca; Amy Piaget, Trempealeau; Joseph Pieper, Kaukauna; Shana Pinkalla, Waukesha; Michael Powers, Greenville; Aaron Richardson, Oregon; Michael Scheller, Racine; and Connie Sexton, Waukesha.

Also recognized are Joy Starr, Algoma; Farah Stewart, Milwaukee; Andrea Stiff, Fort Atkinson; Samantha Stoughtenger, Mauston; Rachelle Vollmer, Mayville; Adam Woerpel, Burlington; Aimee Wolfgram, Oshkosh; Corey Young, New London; and Angela Zander, Delafield.

Students from other states receiving the UW-Green Bay Leadership Award are Ryan Blazzei, Minneapolis, Minn.; Shannon Byrne, Green Oaks, Ill.; Charlotte Nordgaard, Dawson, Minn.; Kolleen Quilici, Burnsville, Minn.; and Christa Steene, Glenville, Minn.

Gnankang (Sarah) Napoe, from Togo, West Africa, also received the UW-Green Bay Leadership Award.

GREEN BAY - Thirty-three graduating seniors at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay have been elected to the campus chapter of the national honorary society Phi Kappa Phi. The 102-year-old organization recognizes outstanding achievement in all disciplines.

New members are:

Green Bay- Catherine A. Ault, Jeffrey A. Bell, Beth Ann Block, Joseph Anton Burgoni III, Tina Mahre Dahle, Laura L. Diamond, Alanna Marie Gessler, Holly Ruth Oshefsky, Tina Marie Sauerhammer, Matthew R. Schmidt, Nancy Jean Schumitsch.

Big Bend- Lisa Marie Rausch; Brillion- Matthew J. Mayer; Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania- Eunice Manka Urio; De Pere- Teresa Ann Brusky; Eleva- Chela Kirpal Moore; Hilbert- Angela M. Ruhland; Jackson- Amy Marie Wagenknecht; Lomira- Jessica Lynn Bauer.

Manitowoc- Patrick Jon Jehle, Jennifer Lynn Ladwig; Marinette- Jason Raymond Jacobson, Lowell Thomas Vizenor; New London- Rebecca Dona Hovarter; Port Washington- Amy Lynn Boll.

Seymour- Monica Ruth Johnson; Shawano- Kelly Marie Williams; Sturgeon Bay- Chad Kenneth Feld, Cory Alan Hunsader, Maria Jacinta LeCloux; Two Rivers- Angela Christine Krajnik; Wausau- Sarah E. Aucutt; Whitelaw- Christy Marie Maresh.

GREEN BAY - The Division I intercollegiate athletics program at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay has been granted full certification by the National Collegiate Athletic Association.

The NCAA made the announcement Thursday, May 13, from its headquarters in Overland Park, Kansas. An NCAA review team visited the campus last November, and the association's subcommittee on certification reviewed a self-study submitted by UW-Green Bay at that time. The certification announced today is unconditional and for the maximum 10-year period.

Chancellor Mark Perkins called the news a "milestone" for the University and its sports program. It is the first 10-year NCAA accreditation for UW-Green Bay, which entered the Division I ranks in 1981.

Athletics Director Otis Chambers said he is particularly proud of the program's efforts regarding gender equity and minority enhancement - two primary areas of attention in the NCAA's review of any D-1 program. "I am proud of our staff and I am extremely pleased that we were able to achieve full certification in our first attempt," he said.

The NCAA adopted its current review process about five years ago. Each of the more than 300 schools in Division I is required to submit an extensive self-study, host a three-day visit by NCAA reviewers, and provide additional information to demonstrate compliance with NCAA policies. Primary subjects of the review are institutional control, academic integrity, fiscal integrity, and the institution's commitment to equity.

GREEN BAY -- Newly appointed to the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay Founders Association Board of Directors are Julie Bartels, vice president marketing at American Medical Security and a UW-Green Bay alumna; Amparo Baudhuin, Green Bay Catholic Diocese immigration specialist; Yvonne Hovell, president Bay City Chrysler Plymouth; Barry Martzahl, vice president Solomon Smith Barney; Gowdar Murthy, M.D., Family Care Associates; Nan Nelson, executive vice president, Green Bay Area Chamber of Commerce; and Peter Van Beek, regional manager, Wisconsin Public Service Corp. The new directors will serve until 2002. Reappointed for the same term are Joan Nellen and Robert Zimonick.

Retiring as Founders Association directors are Gus Swoboda, who served 15 years, including a term as president, and Tracy Arndt, who served for six years.

The Founders Association is celebrating its 25th year of service to UW-Green Bay. Association members assist the University in philanthropic endeavors and serve as UW-Green Bay advocates in the community and with government officials. The Association's 30 directors represent business, education and civic organizations.

GREEN BAY -- The seventh annual University of Wisconsin-Green Bay Summer Discovery Program will offer morning and afternoon classes for elementary and middle school students. Three sessions will run from Monday through Friday July 26-30, Aug. 2-6 and Aug. 9-13. Instructors include elementary and middle school teachers and other professionals from the Green Bay community.

Classes offered for elementary students entering grades 1-5 include Telling Tales and Spinning Yarns, Maps-Maps-Maps, Sweet Sweden, and Advanced Sign Language.

Classes for those entering grades 6-8 include Magnets: "May the Force Be With You," Young Artists' Drawing Workshop, Latin American Music, and Investigating the Murder and Death of Edgar Allen Poe. All classes run two and one-half hours a day for five days.

At each session, participants may register for a morning class, an afternoon class or one of each. Those who attend both a morning and afternoon class bring their own bag lunches to have during a supervised lunch period.

The fee for each Summer Discovery class is $55. Summer Discovery Scholarship Aid is available.

For more information about the Summer Discovery Program, the scholarship aid form or a brochure with complete class listings, class descriptions and daily schedules, call the UW-Green Bay Office of Outreach and Extension, 920-465-2102 or 800-892-2118. Information also is available at the Website http://www.uwgb.edu/outreach/youth.htm.

In addition to the Summer Discovery Program, youth camps for older students include Computer Camp for grades 7-9; Summer Art Studio, grades 7-12; Music Camps, grades 4-12; and Biology Camp, grades 10-12.

GREEN BAY -- A couple of clicks of a mouse will soon link job-hunting University of Wisconsin-Green Bay students to an alumni database that serves as a job-seeking source.

The former "Career Information System" has been revamped into the new "Phoenix Network" and will allow students to search for networking contacts from specific career fields, industries, employers, ethnic minority groups, and geographical regions, as well as graduate programs and internship opportunities.

"The system is more comprehensive and broader than before," says Linda Peacock-Landrum, director of Career Counseling and Placement. A late-April count showed the data-base at nearly 250 contacts strong and growing, with alumni, faculty, staff and community volunteers.

In the past UW-Green Bay's CIS was just an "on-paper only" system. Now, students can access the database though a computer in the Career Counseling and Placement Office, and by summer's end, will be able to gain access from any computer linked to the Internet.

Students who want to use the system will be supplied with a password that allows them to search the database and narrow and seek out alumni, faculty or community organizations who have volunteered to serve as career connections. The database participants have entered their preference as to how they want to be contacted (phone, E-mail, in person, by appointment), and have divulged whether they want to serve in an informational capacity or as mentors.

The database is believed to be the first of its kind within the UW-System, according to Peacock-Landrum. "If someone has an on-line alumni referral system similar to ours, I'm not aware of it," she said. "Based on regular meetings with other career counselors at UW schools and current event postings on local list-serves, I don't know of any schools in Wisconsin, and few nationwide, with a similar program."

According to Peacock-Landrum the Phoenix Network will be fully accessible by the 1999 fall semester. Students will be made aware of the Phoenix Network by an on-campus advertising campaign, when they make other career counseling inquiries and through class assignments.

Those wishing to get involved in the Phoenix Network, or for more information, may call UW-Green Bay's Career Counseling and Placement Office at 920-465-2163.

GREEN BAY - The new University of Wisconsin-Green Bay chapter of Students in Free Enterprise (SIFE) won two awards in its first entry into SIFE regional competition held in Chicago.

The seven-member team came home with a trophy for first runner-up, which carries a $1,000 award to be used for supplies and expenses for members to use for their projects. The group also received the rookie-of-the-year award.

In the SIFE competition, student teams match their education outreach projects against programs of teams from other institutions. Winners in 16 regions compete for a national title.

The international organization encourages students to take what they are learning in the classroom and apply it to real-life situations, and to use their knowledge to better their communities through educational outreach programs.

The UW-Green Bay students presented five different projects, ranging from being "economic ambassadors" in high schools to working on a community economic development project. The event also gave students opportunities to meet with corporate representatives from the business community to discuss career opportunities.

The chapter advisers, Profs. Ismail Shariff and John Stoll, were named Sam M. Walton Free Enterprise Fellows in recognition of their leadership and support of the new SIFE program at UW-Green Bay. The chapter organized this year and it is one of only five located on University of Wisconsin campuses. There are 600 chapters of the nonprofit organization world-wide.

GREEN BAY - Gregory Aldrete and Karin Suesser were recognized with "Teaching at Its Best" awards during spring semester at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay. The program sponsored by the Faculty Development Council singles out two faculty members each semester who have integrated innovative teaching or assessment strategies into their classes.

Aldrete, an assistant professor of Humanistic Studies, is a historian who was recognized for defining paper topics so that students must adopt the character of a historical figure and write their papers in that person's "voice." Aldrete joined the UW-Green Bay faculty in September 1995.

Suesser, an assistant professor of Human Development, is completing her first semester of teaching at UW-Green Bay. Her winning teaching strategy involved individual student learning contracts that require students to set specific course learning goals. Her discipline is psychology.

GREEN BAY - A faculty member who makes extensive use of the internet and World Wide Web sites in his classes received the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay "Featured Faculty" award for spring semester.

Anthony H. Galt, a professor of Social Change and Development, was selected for the honor by the Faculty Development Council. The award aims to showcase excellent teaching and provide a forum for sharing ideas among the faculty.

Galt has developed a World Wide Web site for each of the courses he teaches. The most extensive is for the freshman-level Varieties of World Culture, which includes many study resources for students, including interactive trial exams. In two other courses, Galt incorporates student work into the course websites, hoping to stimulate students to do better work if they know that it will be available to anyone with an internet connection.

Galt got involved in the internet in the early 1990s, and soon developed a website for the UW-Green Bay Social Change and Development department. An anthropologist, Galt in 1995 founded an international moderated on-line discussion list devoted to the anthropology of Europe. Recently he founded a discussion list, and a related website, to organize a network of anthropologists who work in Italy. Galt has been called on at the national level to improve electronic communications in the American Anthropological Association.

Galt joined the UW-Green Bay faculty in 1971. He is the author or co-author of three books and in 1991 received the UW-Green Bay Founders Association award for excellence in scholarship.

GREEN BAY - "Save space in your garden for heirlooms."

That's the message from University of Wisconsin-Green Bay faculty member Jeffrey Nekola, who, along with student volunteers, is nurturing hundreds of heirloom tomato, pepper, cabbage, and eggplant plants in the UW-Green Bay greenhouse.

The plants go on sale to the public from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, May 22 and 23, in the Laboratory Sciences building greenhouse on the campus at 2420 Nicolet Drive. Plants are $1 each.

The annual plant sale gives Nekola a chance to indulge in his passion for the flavor, unusualness and diversity of heirlooms, to go about the serious business of protecting diversity in plant genes, and to spread the word about heirlooms to others. Proceeds benefit a Natural and Applied Sciences department ecology lecture series.

This year's sale offers 90 different tomatoes of every type - cherry, salad, paste, oxheart, slicing, and hollow ones for stuffing - along with more than 50 hot and sweet pepper varieties, half a dozen members of the cabbage family, and four different eggplants. Each year's sale includes about 30 percent varieties that weren't offered the previous year, along with favorites from the past.

Garden packs, or ready-made assortments, are new. "We'll have a salsa collection including green husk tomatoes, which we're offering for the first time this year, with several peppers," says Nekola. He also plans some tomato variety packs.

To the question, where does he get all the seeds, Nekola's answer is everywhere he can.

For starters, he's a member of Seed Savers Exchange in Decorah, Iowa, which gives him access to a thousand other members who have seeds to swap. He also likes to connect with individuals who have "handed down" seeds.

"It's nice to find older people who have seeds and who want to pass on the tradition," says Nekola. "That's luck." It's a strategy that has added tomato varieties such as Butter and Bull Heart and Helen's German, to this year's sale. Butter and Bull Heart is descended from seeds brought by a Latvian immigrant to the Madison area in the 1940s. Helen's German has been grown in south-central Wisconsin since the turn of the century when the seeds were somehow "imported" from Iowa.

Nekola goes to farmer's markets. A visit to the Madison farmer's market last year added Red Squash, a small, round, dark red eggplant to this year's sale. On a spring break trip in March to the tropical island of Tobago, he acquired six different peppers and has plants ready for sale. He's calling them Tobago Yellow, Red, Orange, and Chocolate Scotch Bonnets; Tobago Yellow and Red Seasoning Peppers; and Tobago Bell.

Also, says Nekola, "When students go on international trips, I give them $10 and ask them to bring back seeds." He already has an "order" in with a student who'll go to Guatemala this summer.

Nekola grows out all of the vegetables himself in order to get enough seeds to start plants for the sale. His garden last year included 75 tomato varieties and 50 peppers. He figures he has seeds for 150 different tomatoes in storage.

Nekola explains that the term "heirloom" isn't applied consistently. It may describe "old-fashioned" vegetables, or vegetables grown by Native Americans before the arrival of Europeans, but it also may be applied to new strains developed by hobbists. "The key thing is that heirlooms aren't hybrids," says Nekola. Hybrids are the offspring of two plants of different varieties and are self-sterile or do not breed true.

Protecting plant gene diversity for the future is a serious business since commercially grown crops have become dominated by small numbers of varieties, explains Nekola, who is a conservation biologist. Blight devastated potatoes in Ireland because the potatoes grown were all of a variety not resistant to the disease. The same was true in the early 1970s when southern corn blight killed 90 percent of the U.S. crop.

"All the different genes have potential uses in plant breeding," says Nekola.

GREEN BAY - UW-Green Bay has announced the names of students who will complete their degrees in May or at the end of summer session in August. Those students receiving bachelor's degrees with academic honors are indicated by * cum laude, ** magna cum laude, and *** summa cum laude. Students are listed under the county which they have noted as their permanent address.

MASTER'S DEGREES

Master of Administrative Science
Carole L. Andrews, Green Bay; Jolene A. Cheslock, Green Bay; Denise E. McShane, Suamico; Paula J. Poggi, Green Bay; Jay T. Robaidek, Krakow; and Craig M. Van Schyndle, Green Bay.

Master of Community Human Services
Elizabeth C. Schlosser,Oshkosh.

Master of Environmental Science and Policy
Don A. Abel Jr., Harbor Springs, Michigan; Ryan M. Atwater, Appleton; Jonathan M. Bossenbroek, Green Bay; Jeannine M. Campion, Green Bay; Beth H. Daggett, Green Bay; Xin Ma, Shanghai, China; Roberta J. Pagel, Kaukauna; Wendy J. Stone, New London; Ayad M. Taofik, Green Bay; Daniel M. Thyes, Green Bay; Francis F. Tukov, Green Bay; Dennis D. Weidemann, Madison; John D. Wiater, Green Bay; and Somchai Yensabai, Thailand.

BACHELOR'S DEGREES

Accounting
Brown - Carie Berres*, De Pere; and Justin Cieslewicz*, Christina Lardinois, and Pam Vincent, Green Bay.
Calumet - Matthew Wiskerchen*, New Holstein.
Dane - Mark Couillard, Madison.
Manitowoc - Jeffrey Hebert, Manitowoc; and Patrick Brooks, Two Rivers.
Outagamie - Cory Noeller, Seymour.
Ozaukee - Michael Kelley, Grafton.
Wood - Holly Maus, Nekoosa.

Art
Brown - Beth Block* (distinction in the major), Eric Carter, Patrick Christie, Shaun Dolan, Martina Gauthier, Jill Kolzow, Leua Latai, and Rochelle Platte, Green Bay.
Calumet - Holly Vanderloop, Kaukauna.
Door - Gregory Nault, Sturgeon Bay.
Manitowoc - Xang Yang, Manitowoc.
Waupaca - Jaime Schmit, Waupaca.

Biology
Brown - Amy Joswick, De Pere; and Nahla Bassiouni, Jeffrey Bell**, Ryan Borowicz, and Kevin Olm, Green Bay.
Calumet - Kimberly Cullen, Chilton.
Manitowoc - Christine Phipps, Brillion; Crystal Raybern, Mishicot; and Lora Romdenne, Two Rivers.
Milwaukee - Heather Braatz and Abbie Evans, Franklin.
Oconto - Christine Devener, Oconto.
Outagamie - Melanie Milslagle, Appleton.
Ozaukee - Angela Tackes*, Saukville.
Shawano - Ken Carlson, Bowler.
Trempealeau - Chela Moore***, Eleva.
Other states - Rebecca Buffo and Elizabeth Gault, Illinois.

Business Administration
Brown - Jason Bartel, Matthew Carlson, Alex DeTennis, Andrea Lannoye, and Kimberly Voss, De Pere; Nicole Athey, Catherine Ault***, Stephanie Bain, James Breeden, Delisse Brunette, Joseph Burgoni III*, Anna Domino, Corinna Fless, Christina Hicks, Omarr King, Nicole Klumb, Christina Lardinois, Daniel Lemens, Raymond Maxwell, Kelly Murphy, Adam Mushel, Alyson Nault, Brian Nuthals, Ryan Nuthals, Holly Oshefsky**, David Perl, Matthew Schroyer, Traci Siolka, Scott Sonnabend, Daniel Terrien, Robert Trotman, Mark Ward, Melissa Widi*, and Brian Wismer, Green Bay; Eric Buntin, New Franken; Dawn Seubert, Oneida; and David Vander Leest, Suamico.
Calumet - Mark Doering, Appleton; Jessica Krueger and Matthew Mayer*, Brillion; and Angela Ruhland*, Hilbert.
Columbia - Jean Ehrke and Seth Eichhorst, Columbus.
Dane - Dylan Hilbert, Middleton; and Daniel Deppeler, Windsor.
Kewaunee - Eric Pelnar and Jonathan Wech, Kewaunee.
Manitowoc - Erin Hibbard, Kiel; Ginger Brown and Jeremy Sehloff, Manitowoc; and Brenda Kopetsky**, Two Rivers.
Marinette - Callie Raboin*, Athelstane; and Jason Jacobson* and Jodi Keller, Marinette.
Milwaukee - Joseph Kojis, Milwaukee.
Oconto - Kathleen Leja, Sobieski.
Oneida - Mary Wubker, Rhinelander.
Outagamie - Mark Mueller, Appleton; Deanna Brunner and Christine Haen, Combined Locks; Youa Vang, Neenah; Scott Zirbel, Oneida; and Bryan Gosda, Seymour.
Ozaukee - Rachel Schmit, Fredonia.
Portage - Kristin Konkol, Stevens Point.
Racine - Michael Scheller, Racine.
Rock - Pamela Turner, Janesville.
Shawano - Joni Miller, Tigerton; and Jeffery Waukau, Shawano.
Sheboygan - Christine Mitchell, Sheboygan.
Waupaca - Jeffrey Bechard, Clintonville.
Winnebago - Michael Roth, Neenah.
Other states - Brian Gold and Sarah Shea, Illinois; and Kristen Colon, Kansas.
Other countries - Sylvana Rivera, Ecuador.

Chemistry
Brown - Carol Azan, De Pere; and Jamie Kinjerski* and Michele Leaman, Green Bay.
Juneau - Samantha Stoughtenger, Mauston.
Kewaunee - David Ledvina, Luxemburg.
Ozaukee - Julie Hahm*, Mequon.

Communication and the Arts
Brown - Teresa Brusky* (distinction in the major), De Pere; and Derek Brandenburg*, Erica Dvorachek, Margaret Frank, Erik Losby, and Chad Peters, Green Bay.
Door - Anna Uecker, Sturgeon Bay.
Forest - Krystal Statezny, Laona.
Milwaukee - Amy Geiger, Franklin.
Washington - Michelle Medla, Hartford; and Steven Gottfried, Hubertus.

Communication Processes
Brown - Mark Becker*** and Craig Hotchkiss, De Pere; and Edward Anderson, April Coenen, Benjamin Doeren*, Gina Dufek, Kimberly Follett, Tani Grimh, Kim Gutheridge, Kimberly Knauf, Kristie Moss, Julie Phillips, Althea Reetz, Nicole Schiesl, and Ryan Tonies, Green Bay.
Dodge - Gregory Koepsell, Horicon.
Door - Barbara Tesnow, Sturgeon Bay.
Manitowoc - Christy Maresh*, Whitelaw.
Marinette - Jennifer Langer, Marinette; and Kristie Bloch, Peshtigo.
St. Croix - Tara Menter, Hudson.
Outagamie - Michelle Mertz**, Appleton.
Shawano - Misty Davids, Bowler; and Sarah Korb, Marion.
Waukesha - Amanda Ware, Sussex.
Wood - Nichole Buras, Wisconsin Rapids.
Other states - Megan Henderson, Minnesota; and Amanda Rothbarth*, South Dakota.
Other countries - Eunice Urio**, Tanzania.

Computer Science
Brown - Jonathan Barnard, Thomas Busch, Steven Giese II*, Taein Lee, and Bonnie Zeitler*, Green Bay.
Manitowoc - Scott Kohlmann, Manitowoc.
Marathon - Kevin Keding, Rothschild.
Sheboygan - Michael Thill**, Random Lake.

Earth Science
Brown - Laura Diamond**, Green Bay.

Economics
Brown - Jessica Campbell and Dave Lodahl, Green Bay; and Chad Klaus, Suamico.
Kewaunee - John Senter, Kewaunee.
Marinette - Daniel Jones, Marinette.
Outagamie - Joseph Pieper, Kaukauna.

Elementary Education
Brown - Kelly Berceau, Melissa Chrisman, Dana Hartman (distinction in the major), Trina Kuhnz, Lia Lor, Kay Matuszak*, Jessica Murphy, Vikki Nuthals, Christina Radosevich, and Kathryn Whitman*, Green Bay.
Calumet - Stephanie Rollmann***, Kiel.
Dane - Meredith Helser, Madison.
Fond du Lac - Amy Damsteegt, Waupun.
Kenosha - Amanda Fox, Bristol.
Kewaunee - Sheri Reinhart, Algoma.
Manitowoc - Rebecca Martin, Maribel; and Joanne Graff**, Angela Krajnik**, and Sandra Tulachka*, Two Rivers.
Milwaukee - Amy Quello, Milwaukee.
Oconto - Ann Gueller* and Steven Thomson Jr., Gillett.
Oneida - Amy Van Doren, Rhinelander.
Outagamie - Vicki Leisgang, Seymour.
Washington - Ellen Lyskawa*, Jackson.
Winnebago - Jed Kees, Neenah; and Stacy Schmude, Oshkosh.
Other states - Nichole Wren*, Iowa.

English
Brown - Jaime Lane (distinction in the major), De Pere; Kim Chinquee*, Mary Connors, Lara Cruz-Uribe, Carrie Jaccard, Krista Johnson***, Marcianne Massanari, Adam Stueck*, Angela Thielke, and Rebecca Tischer, Green Bay; and Sarah Strange and Kristie Wilson**, Suamico.
Door - Erica Ploof and Kirsten Rockwell, Sturgeon Bay.
La Crosse - Lennie Pickett, La Crosse.
Manitowoc - Nathan Smith*, Manitowoc; and Lisa Bodwin, Two Rivers.
Oconto - Heidi Delzer, Lena.
Outagamie - Tara Acord, Kaukauna.

Environmental Policy and Planning
Brown - John Bishop, Jennifer Britz, Samuel Graefe, Kara Kapphahn, Matthew Knudson, Marcy McGrath, Brett Poquette, and Julie Wergin, Green Bay.
Kewaunee - Jessica Sinkula, Kewaunee.
Marinette - William Langlois, Marinette.
Milwaukee - Jonathan Paull, Franklin.
Outagamie - Aric Bandi, Appleton; and Sylvia Cornelius, Oneida.

Environmental Science
Brown - Laura Diamond**, Brian Fischer, Chad Gilson, Jason Macklin, and Todd McCoy, Green Bay.
Clark - Eric Bullock*, Humbird.
Fond du Lac - Robert Noe, Vandyne.
Lafayette - Emily Johnston*, Darlington.
Marinette - Andrew Paasch, Marinette.
Milwaukee - Lisa Rutkowski*, Greendale; and Jerad Linneman, West Allis.
Oconto - Heather Hujet, Little Suamico.
Ozaukee - Julie Hahm*, Mequon.
Shawano - Jacquelin Peterson*, Bonduel.
Other states - Elizabeth Gault, Illinois; and Benjamin Deneen, Minnesota.

French
Brown - Linnea Laabs and Khou Xiong-Thor*, Green Bay.
Sheboygan - Kelly Schaetzer, Sheboygan.

General Studies
Brown - Clare Fagan, Martin Gorecki, Kathleen Matchefts*, Christine Pickl, Margy Renner**, and Cathleen Williams, Green Bay; and Judy Depeau-Gilson, New Franken.
Fond du Lac - Kathryn Richison*, Fond du Lac.
Kewaunee - Dawne Kennedy, Kewaunee.
Manitowoc - Deborah Klein**, Maribel.
Marquette - Steven Miller, Westfield.
Milwaukee - Wendy Butler, St. Francis; and Laverne Schmidt, West Allis.
Outagamie - Danny Kille, Appleton.
Shawano - James Bohr, Shawano.
Sheboygan - Dianne Pfeffer, Cedar Grove.
Vilas - Linda Bayer, Minocqua.
Waupaca - Gloria Schneider-Popke, New London; and Mark Major-Holliday, Waupaca.
Other states - Angela Smits, Florida.

Geography
Brown - Moira Wheeler, Green Bay.
Outagamie - Steven Mentz, Appleton.

German
Brown - Heidi Cain, Mark Genke*, and Jolene O'Leary, Green Bay.
Marinette - Lowell Vizenor** (distinction in the major), Marinette.
Sheboygan - Christine Mitchell, Sheboygan.
Waukesha - Laura Rasmussen, Hartland.

History
Brown - Russell Aho, Daniel Boettcher, Mark Jung, Thomas Pivovar**, Mark Romatowski, Abigail Theys, and Rebecca Weir* (distinction in the major), Green Bay; and Matthew Heling*, Oneida.
Oconto - Candace Dantinne, Oconto.
Racine - Steven Gromala, Union Grove.
Shawano - Vicki Buettner***, Shawano.
Sheboygan - Joshua Kestell*, Elkhart Lake.
Winnebago - Jonathan Maurice, Neenah.

Human Biology
Brown - Stephanie Jazdzyk and Liza Webber, De Pere; and Darshna Amarnani, Steven Brauer*, Kristen Dezeeuw, Tennille Echard, Alanna Gessler***, Dawn Grunwald, Dana Pionek*, Heather Rautiola, Heidi Rebitski, Tina Sauerhammer***, Cheng Thao, and Jason Zirbel, Green Bay.
Calumet - Jessica Zornow, Menasha.
Clark - Mandy Luedtke*, Granton.
Door - Chad Feld**, Sturgeon Bay.
Kenosha - Joel Niebuhr*, Twin Lakes.
Kewaunee - Joy Starr*, Algoma.
La Crosse - Elizabeth Reiman, La Crosse.
Oconto - Tami Boomsma, Little Suamico; and Matthew Karban, Oconto.
Outagamie - Jesse Romenesko**, Appleton; and Christopher Schlies, Kaukauna.
Sheboygan - Rebecca Zore, Howards Grove; and Chad Voskuil**, Oostburg.
Taylor - Wendy Anderson*, Medford.
Waukesha - Lisa Rausch**, Big Bend; Sarah Lena*, Brookfield; Angela Zander, Delafield; and Marc Riewer, Oconomowoc.
Other countries - Maria Souto, Brazil.

Human Development
Brown - Christopher Keiler* (distinction in the major), De Pere; and Shannon Alberts, Heidi Baganz, Sara Burkart, Emily Hartfield, Joshua Heim, Jennifer Hoogland, Eric Jensen, Lora Luttrell, Michal Massarani*, Kathryn Peil, Maureen Platkowski*, Tina Sauerhammer***, Michael Skelly, Thomas Smith, Jennifer Stahl, Andrea Tassi, and Sao Vue, Green Bay.
Calumet - Jennie Wallman, Appleton.
Dodge - Jessica Bauer*** (distinction in the major), Lomira.
Door - Linnea Brunstrom, Sturgeon Bay.
Florence - Sandra Zoeller, Florence.
Kewaunee - Meggan Stodola, Luxemburg.
Manitowoc - Patrick Jehle***, Manitowoc.
Marathon - Sarah Aucutt, Wausau.
Marinette - Annette Smith, Marinette.
Milwaukee - Amy Geiger, Franklin; Timothy Hosni, Milwaukee; and Kelli Schroeder, Wauwatosa.
Oconto - Rachel Eckenrod, Abrams; and Kelly Deeg, Lakewood.
Outagamie - Kristi Hill, Jennifer Isaacson, Nicole Jersey, Jennifer Pierce (distinction in the major), and Carrie Wendt, Appleton.
Ozaukee - Tiffany Yocum*, Grafton.
Price - April Ashley, Phillips.
Shawano - Kelly Williams* (distinction in the major), Shawano; and Catherine Newcomb, Wittenberg.
Sheboygan - Kristine Kuehlmann, Sheboygan; and Heather Rabe, Sheboygan Falls.
Walworth - Amy Peters, East Troy.
Washington - Amy Wagenknecht*, Jackson.
Waukesha - Lisa Rausch**, Big Bend; and Victoria Goode, Sussex.
Waupaca - Rebekah Meinhardt, Clintonville.
Winnebago - Shannon Huelsbeck, Menasha.

Humanistic Studies
Brown - Christine Clarey, Mary Connors, Terra Fewless*, Brian Gandt, Mark Jung, Natalie Norman, Rorie Overby, Kurt Salzbrun, Rebecca Weir* (distinction in the major), Green Bay; and Kristie Wilson**, Suamico.
Marinette - Karen McCorkle**, Pembine.
Milwaukee - Neil Sackerson, Greenfield; and Scott Franckowiak*, Oak Creek.
Outagamie - Sara Christian and Jill Lamers, Appleton; and Beth Buchman, Hortonville.
Ozaukee - Cheryl Weiss, Mequon.
Waukesha - Laura Rasmussen, Hartland; and Joshua Koepsell, Waukesha.
Other states - Richard Colwell, Illinois; and John Becker, Minnesota.

Individual Major
Brown - Anthony Baus (Horticulture), Jody Langham (Human Services for At Risk Populations), and Robert Wilson (Psychological and Sociological Studies, Emphasis in Alcohol and Other Drug Abuse), Green Bay; and Tad Theno, New Franken (Space Physics).
Outagamie - Kristi Hill, Appleton (Recreational Administration and Planning).
Other states - Kolleen Quilici***, Minnesota (Cross-Cultural Health Science).

Mathematics
Brown - Kami Lehto, Matthew Schmidt**, and Glen Severson, Green Bay.
Juneau - Samantha Stoughtenger, Mauston.
Oconto - David Seeber, Townsend.
Shawano - Joylyn Hoffman, Gresham.

Music
Brown - Jennifer Scovell and Angela Weber, Green Bay.
Kewaunee - Adam Plamann, Kewaunee.
Manitowoc - Steven Schultz, Manitowoc.
Ozaukee - Amy Boll*, Port Washington.
Waukesha - Steven Streator, Waukesha.

Nursing
Brown - Jennifer Lemke-Diny, De Pere; and Patricia Heron, Green Bay.
Door - Maria Lecloux, Sturgeon Bay.
Manitowoc - Julie Holschbach and Jennifer Ladwig (distinction in the major), Manitowoc.
Oconto - Connie Cayer-Wirtz, Sobieski.
Oneida - Tracy Micks-Harm, Rhinelander.
Outagamie - Roxane Rausch, Appleton.
Waupaca - Rebecca Hovarter (distinction in the major), New London.
Other states - Kelli Stanczak, Michigan.

Nutritional Sciences
Brown - Melissa Korth, Lynn Raska*, and Nancy Schumitsch***, Green Bay.
Calumet - Sara Schmitz**, New Holstein.
Chippewa - Holly Mohr, Stanley.
Marathon - Nathaniel Helke, Wausau.
Outagamie - Rana Sepich, Appleton.
Waupaca - Kelly Koplien, Weyauwega.
Winnebago - Stephanie Nakonechny, Neenah.

Philosophy
Brown - Christine Clarey and Ma Moua*, Green Bay.
Door - Ana Johnson, Sturgeon Bay.
Marinette - Lowell Vizenor** (distinction in the major), Marinette.
Milwaukee - David Foulke, Greendale; and Jerad Linneman, West Allis.
Sheboygan - Stacy Ritt, Howards Grove.

Political Science
Brown - James Breeden, Tina Dahle**, Stephanie Folkman, Scott Garrigan*, and Debbie Nooyen, Green Bay.
Dodge - Julie Pasbrig, Mayville.
Door - Sarah Haen, Sturgeon Bay.
Lafayette - Emily Johnston*, Darlington.
Outagamie - Debra Adamski, Seymour.
Sheboygan - Adam Wiese, Elkhart Lake.
Winnebago - Michael Roth, Neenah.
Other states - Ryan Ruzziconi (distinction in the major), Michigan; and Mathius Johnson, Minnesota.

Psychology
Brown - Christopher Keiler* (distinction in the major), De Pere; and Robyn Erickson, Emily Hartfield, Joshua Heim, Jennifer Hoogland, Eric Jensen, Elizabeth Johnson, Alyson Nault, Amy Nelson, Maureen Platkowski*, and Andrea Tassi, Green Bay.
Calumet - Jennie Wallman, Appleton.
Dodge - Jessica Bauer*** (distinction in the major), Lomira.
Florence - Sandra Zoeller, Florence.
Manitowoc - Sarah Brickbauer**, Kiel; and Jeri Engelbrecht and Patrick Jehle***, Manitowoc.
Marathon - Sarah Aucutt*, Wausau.
Milwaukee - David Foulke, Greendale; and Timothy Hosni, Milwaukee.
Oconto - Kelly Deeg, Lakewood; and Danielle Lane*, Lena.
Outagamie - Jennifer Pierce (distinction in the major) and Carrie Wendt, Appleton; and Jennifer White, Kaukauna.
Ozaukee - Tiffany Yocum*, Grafton.
Shawano - Kelly Williams* (distinction in the major), Shawano.
Sheboygan - Jill Schmoock, Hingham; Kristine Kuehlmann, Sheboygan; and Heather Rabe, Sheboygan Falls.
Walworth - Amy Peters, East Troy.
Washington - Amy Wagenknecht*, Jackson.
Waukesha - Christine Kettler*, Brookfield; and Michael Bartos, Waukesha.
Waupaca - Rebekah Meinhardt, Clintonville.

Public Administration
Brown - Benjamin Allen, Tina Dahle**, Scott Garrigan*, Angela Kasten, Marcy McGrath, Brett Poquette, and Daniel Terrien, Green Bay.
Door - Sarah Haen, Sturgeon Bay.
Kewaunee - Jessica Sinkula, Kewaunee.
Marinette - Leanne Rocque* (distinction in the major), Goodman.
Milwaukee - Jonathan Paull, Franklin.
Shawano - Stacie O'Kimosh, Shawano.
Waupaca - Jennifer Pfundtner, Waupaca.
Wood - Whitney Lamb, Wisconsin Rapids.
Other states - Ryan Ruzziconi (distinction in the major), Michigan; and James Daggs, Virginia.

Social Change and Development
Brown - Jessica Campbell, Leslie Goneau, Vicki Heesaker, Peres Owino**, and Ann Smith, Green Bay.
Manitowoc - Julie Hardtke, Manitowoc.
Milwaukee - Jessica Ollman, Glendale.
Oconto - Tina Kaszinski, Oconto.
Outagamie - Stacie Fetterly*, Seymour.
Rock - Gregory Pieper, Janesville.

Social Work
Brown - Mary Van Gemert, De Pere; and Christina Bostedt, Elizabeth Case*, Charlene Coenen, Doreen Goddard-Weyenberg, Jill Gonzalez, Carrie King, Elaine Kluth, Desiree Svacina, James Sweeney, Valiant Tiske, and Sandra Worley, Green Bay.
Marinette - Joyce Andersen, Sylvia Casselbury, Tracey Haynes-Prestine, and Carol Wheelock, Marinette; and Jessica Degroff, Wausaukee.
Oconto - Anna Lococo, Suring.
Outagamie - Kristi Crooks and Monica Johnson**, Seymour.
Sheboygan - Jessica Bitter and Rachel Buchholz, Cleveland.
Washington - Jamie Lynn, Kewaskum; and Dorene Dricken, West Bend.
Waukesha - Carrie Lam, Brookfield.
Other states - Kelly Badker, Michigan.

Spanish
Brown - Heidi Baganz, Jessica DelBianco, Lori Hendrickson, Kasha Huntowski, and Louie Sutto, Green Bay.
Dane - Jennifer Ritter, Madison.
Outagamie - Beth Buchman, Hortonville; and Tabetha Bolssen, Shiocton.
Waukesha - Sarah Lena*, Brookfield.
Other states - Rebecca Buffo, Illinois; and Joshua LaFleur, Michigan.

Theatre
Brown - Emily Feld* (distinction in the major), Kristi Galaty, and Peres Owino**, Green Bay.

Urban and Regional Studies
Brown - Derek Brandenburg*, Michael Iwinski, Deuane Khamvongsa, Jason Krings, Elizabeth Maegdlin*, and Teng Vang, Green Bay; and James Wright*, Pulaski.
Dane - Matthew Pahs, Sun Prairie.
Door- Cory Hunsader, Sturgeon Bay.
Fond du Lac - Graham Callis, Fond du Lac.
Jefferson - Michael Bieberitz, Fort Atkinson.
Outagamie - Karen Sanderfoot, Appleton; and Michelle Janssen, Kaukauna.