UW-Green Bay faculty and staff celebrating 35, 30, 25, 20 and 10 years of service will be honored at a 3 p.m. reception on Friday, Dec. 14 in the Phoenix Room of the University Union. Admission to the annual service award/end of year gathering is, as always, free; all are invited.

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Prof. Scott Wright, Communication and the Arts and music, is back from a Thanksgiving week tour and recording stint as principal clarinetist with the Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra in a celebration of American music. The project was spearheaded by folk music artist Arlo Guthrie. The orchestra performed music by composers such as Copland and Bernstein and orchestral arrangements of folk music with Guthrie as soloist. Concerts were in Carnegie Hall, New York; the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C.; and the Performing Arts Center in Richmond, Va. The title of the CD resulting from the recording session is TBA.

Here's a reminder that the Alumni Association's first-ever reception for employee alumni of UW-Green Bay is set for 4:30 Wednesday (Nov. 28) in the Rose Hall lobby. Brief remarks by Chancellor Bruce Shepard, plenty of good conversation, hors d'oeuvres, beverages and prizes are part of the hour-long festivities. Even if you have forgotten to RSVP, says Advancement's Shane Kohl, class of '96, you are welcome to attend.

Tales of Macaroni Hall, the old Shorewood Club, the Purple Lounge and other long-gone landmarks are sure to be flying at Wednesday's alumni gathering. Living landmarks, so to speak, will also be in on the celebration. Invited guests include three current staff members whose UW-Green Bay degrees date to 1971. We won't extend ourselves to reveal their identities now, but park yourself at the reception and their names are sure to compute.

Our apologies — don't know how we missed her the first time — but Carmen Leuthner of Outreach and Extension is of course a proud graduate of UW-Green Bay, Class of 1996. She brings the total to 125 employees with a UW-Green Bay degree. Many thanks to those who have responded to the Alumni Association's call for help in compiling a comprehensive list of all those who work on campus and hold some sort of UW-Green Bay degree.

Friends mourn the passing of two individuals with ties to the environmental movement and to UW-Green Bay. Attorney Fred Kaftan of De Pere, 85, died Nov. 9. As a state senator in the late 1940s he was an early advocate of a cleaner Fox River. Recently, he was among the first board members of the Friends of the Cofrin Library organization at UW-Green Bay. Mrs. Cletus (Cora Stencil) Vanderperren died Saturday at age 86. She was a noted conservationist (her obituary mentioned her involvement in conservation courses at UW-Green Bay) active in local issues. Several years after the death of her first husband, she married state senator and University supporter Cletus "Concrete Clete" Vanderperren in 1978. UW-Green Bay named a residence hall for Cletus Vanderperren, who died in 1994.

The Art Agency student organization sends word that its annual Student/Faculty art sale will take place Tuesday and Wednesday (Nov. 27 and 28), in the University Union's Phoenix Room. Hours are 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Tuesday and until 2:30 p.m. Wednesday. The sale will include jewelry, photos, ceramics, clocks, prints, cards and plenty of other holiday-gift possibilities.

A few tickets remain at the University Union Information Center for the Cultural Cuisine Series Holiday Luncheon. A sellout is expected for the event on Thursday, Dec. 6, in the Union. The cost for the holiday feast with music of the season is only $7.25 students, $8.25 faculty & staff, and $9.25 community.

Drumming, song, dance, crafts and food will be featured at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay Kwanzaa celebration from 1 to 3 p.m. this Saturday, Dec. 1, in the Phoenix Rooms of the University Union. Kwanzaa is an African-American celebration based on the tradition of the African harvest festival. African-American foods will be available to sample and children's activities will include crafts with an Afro-centric emphasis; music and dance groups will also perform (see following item). The event is sponsored by the Office of Student Life.

Performing at the Kwanzaa celebration from 1 to 3 p.m. Saturday (Dec. 1) will be the Lawrence University African drumming ensemble Kinkaviwo, the Green Bay African-American Community Choir directed by Dennis Massey and a new campus dance group. The new African and African-American dance group, organized here in September, will make its public performing debut.

You're sure to be reading and hearing news this week about Wisconsin Economic Summit II. A delegation of UW-Green Bay officers headed by Chancellor Bruce Shepard is in Milwaukee today and Tuesday to join with about 900 others in attending the conference organized by the UW System around the theme, "Wisconsin's Economy at the Crossroads: Building Higher Paying Jobs for the Future."

Twenty-nine members of the Wisconsin Bankers Association have committed a total of $51,500 to help underwrite the cost of Wisconsin Economic Summit II this week at the Midwest Express Center in Milwaukee. Lead contributors are M&I Bank, Firstar, Bank One, Associated Bank and Johnson Bank. Sponsors with a Northeast Wisconsin presence include Wells Fargo, Baylake Bank (Sturgeon Bay), F&M Bank of Wisconsin, Bank North (Crivitz), The Stephenson National Bank and Trust (Marinette), and First State Bank (New London),

Forty-four student artists are represented in UW-Green Bay's 29th annual Student Juried Art Exhibition. The show opens with a reception from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. Tuesday (Nov. 27) in the Lawton Gallery. Awards will be announced at 5:30 p.m. The student show is open through Dec 15.

The Phoenix basketball teams have a full week ahead. The women, fresh off a second place finish in the Dead River Classic in Maine (isn't that Stephen King's home state?), return to host a strong New Mexico State team at 7 p.m. this Thursday and Eastern Michigan at 3 p.m. this Saturday at the PSC. The men seek their first win at 7:05 Tuesday night at the Arena vs. Chicago State, and then travel to Madison for a 1 p.m. Saturday Kohl Center showdown with the Badgers.

Twenty-six UW-Green Bay students have been selected for inclusion in Who's Who Among Students in American Universities and Colleges. They will be recognized at an awards program on campus Friday, Dec. 21. They are:

Natalie Archie, Derek Behmke, Rebecca Buss, Carrie Carnes, Christy Corrigan, Joel Hansen, Michael Irwin, Kimberly Kargus, Hannah Kinmonth, Ryan Koga, Nicholas Kohn, Julane Kussow, Kerstin Martwick, Kristie McMillen, Andrea Meyer, Jason Mueller, Monica Radcliff, Stephanie Richards, Kristina Robinson, Rebecca Sharpe, Sarah Shircel, Nicole Suchomel, Heidi Volkmann, Kristy Watzlawick, Jeffery Zellner and Heather Zick

A guest speaker visits on Thursday, Nov. 29, for an informational program on intellectual property protection and licensing services. Beth Donley, general counsel for the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (WARF), is also general manager of WiSys Technology Foundation, Inc. This free program is co-sponsored by Outreach and Extension, the Institute for Research and the academic deans office. Register in advance with Jan Thornton of Outreach at ThorntoJ@uwgb.edu

A book-signing event is scheduled for 3:30 to 5:30 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 27, in the Winter Garden area of Mary Ann Cofrin Hall. Books will be available for purchase and for signing by the authors. Featured faculty are Victoria Goff, Aeron Haynie, Kim Nielsen, Joyce Salisbury and Lynn Walter.

Prof. Derryl Block, Nursing, is co-author of a chapter, "Theoretical Basis of Community Health Nursing," in Community Health Nursing, published this year by Lippincott, Williams and Wilkins.

Prof. Victoria Goff, Information and Computing Science, presented a paper, "Genesis Variables in the Creation and Evolution of NAFTA Nations," at the biennial conference of the Association for Canadian Studies in the United States (ACSUS), which was held in San Antonio, Texas, November 14-18. Although the conference papers and panels represented many disciplines and an equally broad range of topics, the conference's main focus was the North American region: Canada, the United States, and Mexico. While Goff's paper dealt with the role of the press in the development of Mexico, her colleagues, Dr. Alf Pratte of Brigham Young University and Dr. David Spencer from the University of Eastern Ontario discussed the same topic from the perspective of the United States and Canada, respectively.

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