UW-Green Bay, LOG Archive, Vol. 35 No. 72



UWGB remembers Samuel Johnson More on Sam Johnson Reminders on raffle, sendoff Alumnus sells summer campers Meyer Theatre moves Weidner Center season Long run for 'Triple Espresso' September unveiling for new Chihuly Search for Lyall successor Leadership Development Institute	Vol. 35, No. 72 / May 25, 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. Sam Johnson was friend of UW-Green Bay News reports of his death this week from cancer at age 76 billed Racine's Samuel Johnson as Wisconsin's richest man, and among the most generous. Interest in environmental issues and a good working relationship with this institution's founding chancellor led the CEO of S.C. Johnson & Son to endow one of UW-Green Bay's first named professorships, and more. See http://www.uwgb.edu/univcomm/news/archive/2004may.htm#johnson. *** * * * *** More on Sam Johnson, environmentalist and entrepreneur In 1993, Fortune magazine named Sam Johnson to the U.S. National Business Hall of Fame, calling him "corporate America's leading environmentalist." He was also quotable — the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel reports that he "growled" at a Nature Conservancy event in 2001, "you don't have to be some herbal-inhaling, Birkenstock-wearing, twig-and-berry-eating tree-hugger (to be an environmentalist). You don't have to drive a moped. You don't have to live like a rabbit. And you don't have to believe that the only way to save the Earth is to get rid of the people." A lengthy and fascinating obituary is archived at http://www.jsonline.com/news/nobits/may04/231578.asp. *** * * * * Reminder on today's big events: Raffle drawing and Gutowski sendoff Slow day on campus? No way! Here's a reminder on two events both starting at 2 p.m. today (Tuesday, May 25): The Friends of the Cofrin Library group holds the drawing for the Books and Baskets fundraiser on the Library's plaza level. (You don't have to be present to win.) The retirement gathering for Sharon Gutowski, assistant to the chancellor, runs from 2 to 4 p.m. in the Union's 1965 Room. * * * * * Kliss rocks! Alumnus sells 53 campers on Green Bay David Kliss, middle school band director in Germantown, Wis., just northwest of Milwaukee, is a 1974 graduate of UW-Green Bay. He's been telling his students and their parents for years that ours is the best summer camp in the state. This year, apparently, the message really took hold! Mona Christensen of Outreach reports that the mail recently brought a packet of 53 band camp applications from Germantown. If it's not a record, it's close, for most students from one school, any camp. * * * * * Meyer management moves from UW-Green Bay's Weidner to PMI After a productive three-year agreement, the Weidner Center for the Performing Arts and Meyer Theatre Corp. are completing their association for management of the renovated Robert T. Meyer Theatre, it was announced earlier this month. It has subsequently been announced that PMI (the Resch Center) will begin booking the Meyer. For an overview of UW-Green Bay's involvement with the historic Washington Street theatre, see http://www.uwgb.edu/univcomm/news/archive/2004may.htm#meyer. * * * * * Weidner Center season: long list of big names Wynton Marsalis, Ricky Skaggs, Hubbard Street Dance, Kenny Rogers, The Capitol Steps, Peter Paul and Mary, Tim Conway and Harvey Korman, Def Poetry Jam, Sandy Duncan in "The King and I," Kathy Mattea, "Les Miserables," Lord of the Dance, "Cathy Rigby is Peter Pan," Ladysmith Black Mambazo, Kodo drummers, David Copperfield, Disney's "On the Record"... That's a sampling of the 2004-05 Weidner Center season. Newspaper coverage is at http://www.greenbaypressgazette.com/news/archive/et_16173110.shtml. * * * * * Long run for 'Triple Espresso' at Fort Howard Hall It must be good, with 90 shows over a 12-week run. The extended stay of the caffeinated cabaret comedy "Triple Espresso" is another highlight of the upcoming Weidner season. Fort Howard Hall will be transformed into a coffee shop March 8 through May 29 for the comedy about three entertainers reliving their adventures in showbiz mediocrity 25 years after their breakup. * * * * * June installation, September unveiling for Weidner's new Chihuly Look for big doings next September when the Weidner Center formally unveils its spectacular Dale Chihuly chandelier. Funded by private donors, the artwork will be named in memory of the late Josephine B. Lenfestey. News of the addition is at http://www.greenbaypressgazette.com/news/archive/local_15926546.shtml. * * * * *** Update on search for Lyall successor UW-Green Bay's Kathy Pletcher, a member of the search committee seeking a successor to retiring UW System President Katharine Lyall, answered a few questions on the "fast-track" process for the Green Bay Press-Gazette. See http://www.greenbaypressgazette.com/news/archive/local_16147428.shtml. *** * * * *** Newspaper note on Outreach's new Leadership Development Institute The Green Bay News-Chronicle carried a note last week on the new professional development opportunity for business offered by UW-Green Bay's Office of Outreach and Extension. Called the Leadership Development Institute, the program is described at http://www.greenbaynewschron.com/page.html?article=125967. *** * * * *** 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.

UWGB remembers Samuel Johnson

More on Sam Johnson

Reminders on raffle, sendoff

Alumnus sells summer campers

Meyer Theatre moves

Weidner Center season

Long run for 'Triple Espresso'

September unveiling for new Chihuly

Search for Lyall successor

Leadership Development Institute

Vol. 35, No. 72 / May 25, 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.

Sam Johnson was friend of UW-Green Bay

News reports of his death this week from cancer at age 76 billed Racine's Samuel Johnson as Wisconsin's richest man, and among the most generous. Interest in environmental issues and a good working relationship with this institution's founding chancellor led the CEO of S.C. Johnson & Son to endow one of UW-Green Bay's first named professorships, and more. See http://www.uwgb.edu/univcomm/news/archive/2004may.htm#johnson.

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More on Sam Johnson, environmentalist and entrepreneur

In 1993, Fortune magazine named Sam Johnson to the U.S. National Business Hall of Fame, calling him "corporate America's leading environmentalist." He was also quotable — the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel reports that he "growled" at a Nature Conservancy event in 2001, "you don't have to be some herbal-inhaling, Birkenstock-wearing, twig-and-berry-eating tree-hugger (to be an environmentalist). You don't have to drive a moped. You don't have to live like a rabbit. And you don't have to believe that the only way to save the Earth is to get rid of the people." A lengthy and fascinating obituary is archived at http://www.jsonline.com/news/nobits/may04/231578.asp.

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Reminder on today's big events: Raffle drawing and Gutowski sendoff

Slow day on campus? No way! Here's a reminder on two events both starting at 2 p.m. today (Tuesday, May 25): The Friends of the Cofrin Library group holds the drawing for the Books and Baskets fundraiser on the Library's plaza level. (You don't have to be present to win.) The retirement gathering for Sharon Gutowski, assistant to the chancellor, runs from 2 to 4 p.m. in the Union's 1965 Room.

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Kliss rocks! Alumnus sells 53 campers on Green Bay

David Kliss, middle school band director in Germantown, Wis., just northwest of Milwaukee, is a 1974 graduate of UW-Green Bay. He's been telling his students and their parents for years that ours is the best summer camp in the state. This year, apparently, the message really took hold! Mona Christensen of Outreach reports that the mail recently brought a packet of 53 band camp applications from Germantown. If it's not a record, it's close, for most students from one school, any camp.

* * * * *

Meyer management moves from UW-Green Bay's Weidner to PMI

After a productive three-year agreement, the Weidner Center for the Performing Arts and Meyer Theatre Corp. are completing their association for management of the renovated Robert T. Meyer Theatre, it was announced earlier this month. It has subsequently been announced that PMI (the Resch Center) will begin booking the Meyer. For an overview of UW-Green Bay's involvement with the historic Washington Street theatre, see http://www.uwgb.edu/univcomm/news/archive/2004may.htm#meyer.

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Weidner Center season: long list of big names

Wynton Marsalis, Ricky Skaggs, Hubbard Street Dance, Kenny Rogers, The Capitol Steps, Peter Paul and Mary, Tim Conway and Harvey Korman, Def Poetry Jam, Sandy Duncan in "The King and I," Kathy Mattea, "Les Miserables," Lord of the Dance, "Cathy Rigby is Peter Pan," Ladysmith Black Mambazo, Kodo drummers, David Copperfield, Disney's "On the Record"... That's a sampling of the 2004-05 Weidner Center season. Newspaper coverage is at http://www.greenbaypressgazette.com/news/archive/et_16173110.shtml.

* * * * *

Long run for 'Triple Espresso' at Fort Howard Hall

It must be good, with 90 shows over a 12-week run. The extended stay of the caffeinated cabaret comedy "Triple Espresso" is another highlight of the upcoming Weidner season. Fort Howard Hall will be transformed into a coffee shop March 8 through May 29 for the comedy about three entertainers reliving their adventures in showbiz mediocrity 25 years after their breakup.

* * * * *

June installation, September unveiling for Weidner's new Chihuly

Look for big doings next September when the Weidner Center formally unveils its spectacular Dale Chihuly chandelier. Funded by private donors, the artwork will be named in memory of the late Josephine B. Lenfestey. News of the addition is at http://www.greenbaypressgazette.com/news/archive/local_15926546.shtml.

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Update on search for Lyall successor

UW-Green Bay's Kathy Pletcher, a member of the search committee seeking a successor to retiring UW System President Katharine Lyall, answered a few questions on the "fast-track" process for the Green Bay Press-Gazette. See http://www.greenbaypressgazette.com/news/archive/local_16147428.shtml.

* * * * *

Newspaper note on Outreach's new Leadership Development Institute

The Green Bay News-Chronicle carried a note last week on the new professional development opportunity for business offered by UW-Green Bay's Office of Outreach and Extension. Called the Leadership Development Institute, the program is described at http://www.greenbaynewschron.com/page.html?article=125967.

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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.