UW-Green Bay, LOG Archive, Vol. 35 No. 81



UW System finalists Classified staff funds Municipal Clerks and Treasurers Institute Shorewood Amateur Golf Watershed monitoring workshop Human Biology moves Twisted weather	Vol. 35, No. 81 / July 14, 2004 The LOG Online e-mail news digest is distributed each week to faculty and staff of the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay. Links are included to more detailed stories at the Marketing and University Communication Web site and to an archive of past issues. Who are... the UW System finalists? Elizabeth D. Capaldi, Steve Gunderson, Kevin Reilly and David R. Smith are, in order: • Vice Chancellor of the State University of New York • A former U.S. Representative from La Crosse, from 1981 to 1997 • Chancellor of the Texas Tech University System • Chancellor of UW-Extension for four years They're finalists to succeed Katharine Lyall. The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel offers coverage of Capaldi at http://www.jsonline.com/news/metro/jul04/243227.asp. The others reported to be finalists are mentioned at http://www.jsonline.com/news/metro/jul04/242864.asp. *** * * * * Classified staff, where would you like the funds spent? Calling all classified staff: The Classified Staff Advisory Council needs your help. The CSAC would like to know how you, the classified staff, would like to see the professional development funds used. Please take the time to fill out the short survey at http://www.uwgb.edu/classified/PD_survey.asp. * * * * * The correct answer is: The Municipal Clerks and Treasurers Institute What's taking place on the UW-Green Bay campus this week and drawing the greatest number of registrants in the 25-year history of the program? It's the Municipal Clerks and Treasurers Institute, an annual continuing education program for local government officials organized by the Office of Outreach and Extension. Kassie VanRemortel, program director, says attendance of 290 is up better than 20 percent. Retention has been exceptional, too. It's a three-year program, and 92 percent of those who attended first- and second-year tracks are back again. Thursday's graduating class of 85 will be the largest since the program began in 1979. State Sen. Dave Hansen will offer remarks at the evening banquet. * * * * * We'll take Peter Fusco for 71, Alex The Shorewood Amateur was held on Friday, July 9 with 51 participants in the Junior, Men, Senior Men and Senior Women divisions. The low scores (without handicaps) from each flight were: Juniors - 15-18 yr. old 1st - Nic Carpiaux - 78 2nd - Logan VanderWoude - 80 2nd - Matt Dufek - 80 Juniors - 14 & Under 1st - Andy VandenBusch - 87 2nd - Tony Marold - 93 3rd - Thomas Bookmeier - 95 Men 1st - Peter Fusco - 71 2nd - Aaron Dobberstein - 73 3rd - Mike Dauplaise - 74 Senior Men (50+)** 1st - Kevin Rowe - 81* 2nd - Mike Shanley - 81 3rd - Duane Myers - 84 Senior Women (50+) 1st - Dawn VanHoosen - 96 2nd - Ginny Erdmann - 99 3rd - Karen Prevost - 105 won handicap hole tiebreaker ** * * * * What is... the second annual watershed-monitoring workshop? Next Monday-Wednesday (July 19-21) the Lower Fox River Watershed Monitoring Program holds its second annual workshop for high school science teachers at UW-Green Bay. The program involves students and teachers from area high schools, students and researchers from UW-Green Bay and UW-Milwaukee, the Green Bay Metropolitan Sewerage District, and the U.S. Geological Survey. Workshop leaders will include Profs. Kevin Fermanich and Robert Howe and faculty, research specialists and graduate students from UW-Green Bay and UW-Milwaukee. For an update on the project and its progress, see http://www.uwgb.edu/univcomm/news/archive/2004july.htm#watershed2. * * * * * Where is... LS 455? Folks in Human Biology want you to know that they have finished their move to new quarters. The unit's new main office is now located in Laboratory Sciences Suite 455. Exact locations for the individual Human Biology faculty can be found at: http://www.uwgb.edu/humbio/Human%20Biology%20Other/FacultySchedules.HTM. * * * * * And finally, Compliments to everyone's favorite TV station, Channel 5, for carrying "Jeopardy" at 3:30 p.m. every day, and also for their fine coverage of Tuesday's severe weather across Northeast Wisconsin. If you're a loyal reader of this newsletter you'll recall that, two weeks ago, we had some fun with the irony of a certain local station seemingly caught off guard when the Little Chute tornado slammed its bureau and overturned a parked TV truck. Well, TV people read the LOG ONLine, too, and we now stand semi-corrected. We've learned the truck wasn't moved to a safer location that night because it was a backup production truck (not a news-gathering remote truck), and all hands were busy covering the storms. Also, the Fox Valley tornado materialized, unpredictably, virtually overhead. And finally, no Doppler radar is 100 percent accurate, especially in "tracking" tornadoes because it can't see up into the clouds, and the vortex signature will not always be reflected on radar. Thanks for the good-natured feedback, and the suggestion that this last safety issue (about radar never being totally accurate) is worth publicizing.. * * * * *** LOG ONline is prepared for University of Wisconsin-Green Bay faculty and staff by the Office of Marketing and University Communication. Employees may submit a Brief, a Publication, a news item, an announcement, or offer feedback; call ext. 2527 or e-mail us at Log@uwgb.edu.

UW System finalists

Classified staff funds

Municipal Clerks and Treasurers Institute

Shorewood Amateur Golf

Watershed monitoring workshop

Human Biology moves

Twisted weather

Vol. 35, No. 81 / July 14, 2004

The LOG Online e-mail news digest is distributed each week to faculty and staff of the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay. Links are included to more detailed stories at the Marketing and University Communication Web site and to an archive of past issues.

Who are... the UW System finalists?

Elizabeth D. Capaldi, Steve Gunderson, Kevin Reilly and David R. Smith are, in order:

• Vice Chancellor of the State University of New York
• A former U.S. Representative from La Crosse, from 1981 to 1997
• Chancellor of the Texas Tech University System
• Chancellor of UW-Extension for four years

They're finalists to succeed Katharine Lyall. The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel offers coverage of Capaldi at http://www.jsonline.com/news/metro/jul04/243227.asp. The others reported to be finalists are mentioned at http://www.jsonline.com/news/metro/jul04/242864.asp.

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Classified staff, where would you like the funds spent?

Calling all classified staff: The Classified Staff Advisory Council needs your help. The CSAC would like to know how you, the classified staff, would like to see the professional development funds used. Please take the time to fill out the short survey at http://www.uwgb.edu/classified/PD_survey.asp.

* * * * *

The correct answer is: The Municipal Clerks and Treasurers Institute

What's taking place on the UW-Green Bay campus this week and drawing the greatest number of registrants in the 25-year history of the program? It's the Municipal Clerks and Treasurers Institute, an annual continuing education program for local government officials organized by the Office of Outreach and Extension. Kassie VanRemortel, program director, says attendance of 290 is up better than 20 percent. Retention has been exceptional, too. It's a three-year program, and 92 percent of those who attended first- and second-year tracks are back again. Thursday's graduating class of 85 will be the largest since the program began in 1979. State Sen. Dave Hansen will offer remarks at the evening banquet.

* * * * *

We'll take Peter Fusco for 71, Alex

The Shorewood Amateur was held on Friday, July 9 with 51 participants in the Junior, Men, Senior Men and Senior Women divisions. The low scores (without handicaps) from each flight were:

Juniors - 15-18 yr. old
1st - Nic Carpiaux - 78
2nd - Logan VanderWoude - 80
2nd - Matt Dufek - 80

Juniors - 14 & Under
1st - Andy VandenBusch - 87
2nd - Tony Marold - 93
3rd - Thomas Bookmeier - 95

Men
1st - Peter Fusco - 71
2nd - Aaron Dobberstein - 73
3rd - Mike Dauplaise - 74

Senior Men (50+)
1st - Kevin Rowe - 81*
2nd - Mike Shanley - 81
3rd - Duane Myers - 84

Senior Women (50+)
1st - Dawn VanHoosen - 96
2nd - Ginny Erdmann - 99
3rd - Karen Prevost - 105

*won handicap hole tiebreaker

* * * * *

What is... the second annual watershed-monitoring workshop?

Next Monday-Wednesday (July 19-21) the Lower Fox River Watershed Monitoring Program holds its second annual workshop for high school science teachers at UW-Green Bay. The program involves students and teachers from area high schools, students and researchers from UW-Green Bay and UW-Milwaukee, the Green Bay Metropolitan Sewerage District, and the U.S. Geological Survey. Workshop leaders will include Profs. Kevin Fermanich and Robert Howe and faculty, research specialists and graduate students from UW-Green Bay and UW-Milwaukee. For an update on the project and its progress, see http://www.uwgb.edu/univcomm/news/archive/2004july.htm#watershed2.

* * * * *

Where is... LS 455?

Folks in Human Biology want you to know that they have finished their move to new quarters. The unit's new main office is now located in Laboratory Sciences Suite 455. Exact locations for the individual Human Biology faculty can be found at: http://www.uwgb.edu/humbio/Human%20Biology%20Other/FacultySchedules.HTM.

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And finally,

Compliments to everyone's favorite TV station, Channel 5, for carrying "Jeopardy" at 3:30 p.m. every day, and also for their fine coverage of Tuesday's severe weather across Northeast Wisconsin. If you're a loyal reader of this newsletter you'll recall that, two weeks ago, we had some fun with the irony of a certain local station seemingly caught off guard when the Little Chute tornado slammed its bureau and overturned a parked TV truck. Well, TV people read the LOG ONLine, too, and we now stand semi-corrected. We've learned the truck wasn't moved to a safer location that night because it was a backup production truck (not a news-gathering remote truck), and all hands were busy covering the storms. Also, the Fox Valley tornado materialized, unpredictably, virtually overhead. And finally, no Doppler radar is 100 percent accurate, especially in "tracking" tornadoes because it can't see up into the clouds, and the vortex signature will not always be reflected on radar. Thanks for the good-natured feedback, and the suggestion that this last safety issue (about radar never being totally accurate) is worth publicizing..

* * * * *

LOG ONline is prepared for University of Wisconsin-Green Bay faculty and staff by the Office of Marketing and University Communication. Employees may submit a Brief, a Publication, a news item, an announcement, or offer feedback; call ext. 2527 or e-mail us at Log@uwgb.edu.