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Marketing and University Communication UW-Green Bay, CL 815 2420 Nicolet Drive Green Bay, WI 54311-7001 (920) 465-2626 E-mail: hildebrs@uwgb.edu Last update: 9/26/07 |
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October 26, 2005 UW-Green Bay's first vice chancellor remembered Robert Maier died Monday at 77 By Nathan Phelps
Ed Weidner, the university's first chancellor, recalled Maier as a steady voice in the early years of the university.
"Probably the steadiest and firmest of voices in the early years," he said. "He was the manager dotting the I's and crossing the T's ... and being very systematic about it."
Maier joined the university in 1967 after serving in the U.S. Army and working at the University of Arizona in Tucson.
He was promoted to UWGB vice chancellor in 1969 and held that position until stepping down in 1975 for a full-time teaching position in science and environmental change, according to the university.
Maier left UWGB in 1979 to become vice chancellor of academic affairs at East Carolina University — just one of many titles he carried while there.
Maier retired in 1999 and returned to Green Bay in 2001.
Weidner, who met Maier and talked about the fledgling university at Super Bowl I in Los Angeles, said he last saw Maier late this summer when they reminisced about their days at the university.
He said Maier has also finished a manuscript about university administration that is unpublished.
"Every time you lose someone like this, it makes your life more empty," Weidner said. "I'll miss him very much, because he had a really professional and fresh attitude towards university administration."
Maier is survived by his wife, Jane, three children and six grandchildren.
"He was always joking and always had a smile ... even when we had some terrible times with the budget we would find some funny things to joke about" Weidner said. "That was part of his make-up."
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