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Rev. May 13, 2008

 

Ever the activist, alumnus returns as honored speaker

David Kriebel ’77, a summa cum laude graduate of UW-Green Bay and a leader of the student environmental movement in the 1970s, is returning to campus to deliver the May 2008 commencement address.

Kriebel is today a full professor on the faculty of the University of Massachusetts Lowell. He co-directs the Lowell Center for Sustainable Production, which collaborates with industries, agencies and unions on the redesign of systems of production to make them more environmentally sound. His research focuses on the prevention of workplace injuries, cancer and non-malignant respiratory disease.

“I was a high school eco freak… determined to devote my life to improving the planet and reducing human suffering.” That’s how the Philadelphia native recalled his teen-age decision to head west to the then-new UW-Green Bay. He studied biology and helped organize environmental research and action initiatives including the Union of Young Environmentalists, a national student organization. He continued on to Washington University in St. Louis and the Harvard School of Public Health, where he received his master’s degree in physiology and doctorate in epidemiology.

Kriebel was among those profiled in the May 2007 environmentalists issue of Inside UW-Green Bay.



That ’70s photo
An alert reader e-mailed to help us date the classic UWGB photograph of Earth Ball games on the lawn (cover, ‘Eco U’ issue, May 2007). Though the issue’s theme was 1970s activism, the photo most likely dates from spring 1980, or perhaps later. Writes Michael J. Cassidy of Kohler, Class of 1982, environmental science, “I’m pretty confident the girl facing the camera… under the big earthball… is Patty Reinhard…” His friend and classmate, now Patricia Reinhard Summers ’84 of Milwaukee, confirmed that ID. Cassidy thinks another former classmate, Bruce Forrest, who attended through 1983, is to her left in the photo. Earth Ball was an iconic element of warm-weather campus life in the early years. Prof. Jack Frisch rolled it out as a lesson in new and cooperative games for his popular class Fundamentals of Interpersonal Communication.

Click here to download a PDF file of the entire May 2008 issue of Inside magazine.