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The Alumni mAgAzine of The universiTy of Wisconsin–milWAukee

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fAll 2009vol . 11 , no. 2

Mapping your futureThe answers are There

in black and gold

Table of ConTenTs

2 Something Great in Mind

3 From the Chancellor

6 Center for Jewish Studies receives $2 million gift

7 Mapping your future: Alumni Career Services

14 Mapping your future: blended and online learning

16 Career Questions

17 Get ready to prowl!

18 A Ph.D. in Parking

20 Panther sports news

23 2009 UWM Alumni Association Awards

28 Class notes

30 Sasho builds a soccer dynasty

Chancellor: Carlos E. Santiago

Executive Director of the UWM Alumni Association and

Director of Alumni Relations: Andrea Simpson

Vice Chancellor for University Relations and

Communications: Tom Luljak (’95)

Vice Chancellor for Development and Alumni Relations:

Patricia Borger

Director of Communications and Media Relations:

Laura Porfilio Glawe (’89)

Editor: Nancy A. Mack (’71)

Associate Editor: Angela McManaman (’00, ’08)

Assistant Editor: Laura L. Hunt

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new career? A new degree? UWM can help you map your

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UWM naMes tWo neW deans

ChUkUka s. enWeMeka, dean, College of health sCienCes

Chukuka S. Enwemeka has accepted the position of dean of UWM’s College of Health Sciences, effective Aug. 1.

Enwemeka comes to UWM from the New York Institute of Technology (NYIT), where he was professor and dean of the School of Health Professions, Behavioral and Life Sciences. Before joining NYIT in 2003, he served as professor and chair of Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation Sciences at the University of Kansas Medical Center from 1993 to 2003.

Enwemeka is one of the world’s foremost authorities on photoengineering of tissue repair process with visible and near infrared light and lasers. He has published extensively and has secured millions of dollars in external grant funding. He also has served on grant review committees for agencies including the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the Office of Special Education and the U.S. Department of Education.

“We welcome Dr. Enwemeka and his extensive leadership experience to our College of Health Sciences,” said Chancellor Carlos E. Santiago. “His multidisciplinary approach to the health sciences and to the collaboration necessary to move forward research initiatives will certainly benefit UWM and this region in these areas.”

Enwemeka received his B.S. and M.S. in Physical Therapy from the University of Ibadan, Nigeria, and the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, respectively. He earned his Ph.D. in Pathokinesiology from New York University (NYU), and did his postdoctoral research training at NYU’s Rusk Institute of Rehabilitation Medicine.

tiMothy l. sMUnt, dean, sheldon B. lUBar sChool of BUsiness

Timothy L. Smunt has been named dean of UWM’s Sheldon B. Lubar School of Business. He began Aug. 15.

Smunt comes to UWM from Wake Forest University, where he had been a faculty member since 1995. Most recently, he served as professor of management and Sisel fellow in operations at the university’s Babcock Graduate School of Management.

He was American Council on Education fellow for 2005-06 at the University of Chicago, and recently served as associate dean and as associate dean for faculty at the Babcock School.

Smunt’s research interests lie in service operations productivity, process design, re-engineering, learning-curve theory and international operations. He teaches in the area of operations management, including courses on business process management, technology management and international operations.

He received his Ph.D. in Operations Management from Indiana University (1981) and his M.B.A. from the University of Missouri–St. Louis (1978). He has a B.S. in Industrial Management from Purdue University (1976).

“Dr. Smunt is an outstanding addition to the senior leadership team at UWM,” said Chancellor Carlos E. Santiago. “Our expectation is that the school will continue its upward trajectory and play a leadership role in developing entrepreneurship, business acumen, managerial skills and technological development in the commercial arena. His academic and research experiences are certain to connect well with the campus and the wider community.”

UWM is on the verge of acquiring property that holds great potential for our future. I am referring to land on the Milwaukee County Grounds that we intend to turn into Innovation Park – a place to expand our research in engineering and applied science.

I am sure some alumni remember the last time UWM acquired a significant amount of land for the campus. The year was 1964 and the property was that of Milwaukee– Downer College.

Chancellor J. Martin Klotsche provided insights into that acquisition in his excellent history book, “The University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee: An Urban University” (1972). He related that Milwaukee–Downer College had been struggling financially for several years. The solution it finally reached was merging with Lawrence College in Appleton. For an investment of $10 million (about $70 million in today’s dollars), UWM received 43 acres (essentially, all current university land north of Maryland Avenue) and 14 buildings (some of which have been razed and replaced).

The besT siTe for innovaTion ParkOn May 21, 2009, the Milwaukee County Board agreed

to enter into exclusive negotiations with UWM for the sale of about 71 acres, of which about 58 acres will be developed and 13 acres will be reserved for passive recreation and environmental uses. The land itself is on the west side of Milwaukee County in Wauwatosa, about eight miles west of campus. We believe this location is the best place to create Innovation Park, where we will leverage the assets of the region to drive economic development and enhance the research and teaching missions of UWM.

researCh: a key eConomiC driverIncreasingly, university research is a key regional economic

driver. By locating part of UWM adjacent to the Milwaukee Regional Medical Center, the hub of clinical research in Southeastern Wisconsin, we will further build our partnerships with the Medical College of Wisconsin, Children’s Research Institute and the Blood Research Institute.

The future of biomedical research, a major emphasis for UWM, is in translational research. This research spans developments from the laboratory to the clinical setting. Moving elements of UWM’s College of Engineering and Applied Science to the Milwaukee County Grounds will greatly enhance the ability of all the institutions on the County Grounds to conduct translational research.

oPPorTuniTies To ParTnerThis location also will provide UWM with opportunities

to partner with the private sector to create economic activity. Start-up companies that spin off of collaborative research can locate in the nearby Technology Innovation Center within the Milwaukee County Research Park.

On June 3, there was a resolution-signing ceremony at the site hosted by Milwaukee County Executive Scott Walker. We were joined by many other people who have been great supporters and facilitators of this transaction, including County Board Chairman Lee Holloway, State Sen. Jim Sullivan and UWM Foundation Board Chair Bruce Block.

defining and CreaTing The fuTureIn my comments, I acknowledged the difficult economy that

we are in today and said that many people may be questioning whether now is the time for UWM to pursue the creation and growth of Innovation Park. For perspective, though, I offered insights from Jack Welch, the legendary former CEO of General Electric, and his wife, Suzy. In a recent issue of BusinessWeek magazine, they wrote that right now, too many leaders are fixated on today. They are neglecting to define and create tomorrow.

“In a time of drastic cutbacks,” they wrote, “spending money on anything can set off a deafening sound and fury. But don’t let the noise overwhelm you. In fact, try to break through it to get your people to listen as you talk about down-the-road ideas.”

I believe Innovation Park is one of those “down-the-road ideas.” I thank all of those who have been involved in starting this new chapter for UWM and our region. Innovation Park will define and create tomorrow for Southeastern Wisconsin.

—Carlos E. Santiago Chancellor

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Chancellor Carlos Santiago (seated, second from left) speaks at the signing of legislation enabling the sale of county land to UWM for the development of a satellite engineering facility for the university. Seated with Santiago are (from left) State Sen. Jim Sullivan, County Executive Scott Walker and County Board Chairman Lee Holloway.

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aCqUiring another historiC property

grant Will fUnd Children’s environMental health Center

UWM, Children’s Research Institute and the Medical College of Wisconsin have been awarded an $8.5 million federal grant to combine their individual areas of expertise to form a national research powerhouse in the area of children’s environmental health.

The Children’s Environmental Health Science Core Center (EHSCC) is the only such center in the country devoted solely to this field and also is unique in its broad, team-based approach.

The five-year funding is provided by the National Institute for Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS).

“Issues such as asthma, lead poisoning and toxic chemicals left behind at industrial sites disproportionally affect children in urban areas like Milwaukee,” said Commissioner of Health Bevan K. Baker. “This center will allow all of us who care about the health of today’s youth, and future generations, to access cutting-edge research, technology and creative community-wide solutions to environmental health issues.”

The administration of the Children’s EHSCC is housed in the new UWM School of Public Health.

regents approve nUrsing, pUBliC health ph.d.s

The UW System Board of Regents has approved two new doctoral programs at UWM.

The Doctorate in Nursing Practice (DNP) is designed for nurses in clinical practice. It will be offered online as a two-year, part-time option for students who have completed a master’s degree. A three-year DNP program for students who have completed a bachelor’s degree will begin in the future.

The doctorate in Environmental and Occupational Health will be the first Ph.D. program offered by UWM’s new School of Public Health. The program will prepare graduates for research careers in academia, nongovernmental organizations and public service at all levels of national and international government.

The new Ph.D.s bring the total number of doctoral programs at UWM to 27.

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From Packer To PanTherkoonCe naMed neW direCtor of athletiCs

George Koonce is UWM’s new director of athletics. He replaces Bud Haidet, who announced his retirement last September.

Koonce comes to UWM from Marquette University, where he served as a senior associate athletic director.

Koonce spent nine seasons as a player in the National Football League, eight of those as a starter with the Green Bay Packers. While in Green Bay, he helped the Packers win their first Super Bowl championship in 29 years.

He also spent a season as a player with the Seattle Seahawks before working as the special assistant to the athletic director at East Carolina University and as the director of player development with the Packers.

“I have every confidence that the experience and familiarity George Koonce has with Milwaukee and Wisconsin fans will greatly benefit the UWM Panthers,” Chancellor Carlos E. Santiago said in announcing the appointment. “His energy and enthusiasm will further elevate a strong program built by outgoing director Bud Haidet and his excellent staff.”

“This is a great opportunity for me and my family, but with opportunity comes accountability and responsibility,” Koonce said. “I welcome the challenge of doing my part to help not only the athletic department but the university as a whole.

“I truly believe in athletics being integrated into the university and in the university becoming an active part of the athletic program. I think it is a perfect fit and I am eager to get started.”

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Wisconsin Gov. Jim Doyle has made a commitment of $240 million in bonding to advance building projects at UWM in his current capital budget recommendation. It is the largest single budget amount the state has ever invested in UWM.

“We have to look at some of the investments that will give us the greatest long-term benefit,” said Doyle. “This money will allow UWM to build the labs that will train the best scientists, engineers and researchers of tomorrow. We are going to invest in the potential of our young people.”

At the same time, he said, the investment will put people to work on building the university’s infrastructure.

The bonding money, which will be available during the next six years, will go toward construction projects in the areas of engineering, freshwater science and public health.

Doyle says UWM will have the freedom to prioritize building projects.

soref learning CoMMons offers an UnCoMMon learning experienCe

UWM students are now enjoying an uncommon learning experience at the library.

The extensive renovation of the Golda Meir Library’s first floor, west wing into the Daniel M. Soref Learning Commons features expanded, flexible learning spaces, enhanced technology, areas for group study and an expanded and upgraded café.

“We wanted to remake traditional research and study spaces into a flexible, adaptable, connected environment, serving the changing needs of our students, faculty and staff,” says Ewa Barczyk, director of the UWM Libraries.

The renovation also incorporates numerous environmentally friendly, sustainable construction techniques, including re-use of fixtures, woodwork and hardware from the original wing, use of locally made or grown resources and extensive use of recycled and/or recyclable materials.

The project, made possible through a $1.75 million donation from the Daniel M. Soref Charitable Trust, is the first major renovation of the library in 20 years.

historiC partnership forMs MidWest energy researCh Center

UW–Milwaukee, Marquette University and Milwaukee School of Engineering (MSOE), in partnership with several regional companies and foundations, have formed the Southeastern Wisconsin Energy Technology Research Center (SWETRC).

SWETRC brings together regional resources to establish a national center that will develop high-potential research in the energy field, attracting large-scale funding and leading state-of-the-art technology that can foster economic growth.

Seven collaborative research projects already are under way with the support of $200,000 in federal funding and nearly $500,000 from several regional industries and foundations, including the Rockwell Automation Charitable Corporation, the Wisconsin Energy Foundation, The Bradley Foundation, Eaton Corporation, Kohler Co., American Transmission Company, DRS Technology and ReGENco.

The formation of SWETRC marks the first time the colleges of engineering at UWM, Marquette and MSOE have collaborated on a major initiative.

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state pledges $240 Million for BUilding projeCts

UWM Chancellor Carlos E. Santiago thanks Wisconsin Gov. Jim Doyle (far left) for his support of UWM’s Milwaukee initiative. Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett is to Doyle’s right.

The new Daniel M. Soref Learning Commons includes areas for group study and project work. These areas are separated from a large, open seating area (behind students) that features comfortable, flexible furniture and access to technology.

Adel Nasiri, assistant professor of electrical engineering, heads one of the new center’s seeded projects, which is also funded through the U.S. Department of Energy.

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The UWM Center for Jewish Studies has received a $2 million donation from the Baye Foundation. This gift is the largest the foundation has ever made, as well as the single largest gift ever made to UWM’s College of Letters and Science, which houses the center.

The Center for Jewish Studies, created in 1997, supports a multidisciplinary undergraduate major and minor in Jewish Studies; students receive instruction in Jewish history, art, religion, literature and Hebrew. The center also offers conferences, workshops and free public lectures featuring nationally known scholars.

a new home in greene museum

The center will be named the Sam and Helen Stahl Center for Jewish Studies and relocated to historic Greene Memorial Museum on the UWM campus. The center’s name honors the parents of Pearl Berkowitz. She is a trustee of the Baye Foundation and wife of the late Nathan Berkowitz, former president of the foundation.

“This wonderful gift will provide a focal point for Jewish Studies at UWM,” said Chancellor Carlos E. Santiago. “The Sam and Helen Stahl Center for Jewish Studies will provide a campus home for this program, with space for faculty and researchers as well as community events.” The center is currently housed in a two-office suite on campus.

Santiago formally announced the gift in April at the annual meeting of the Wisconsin Society for Jewish Learning, which was held at the Zelazo Center on campus.

a higher Profile for Jewish sTudiesAnother intended outcome of the Baye Foundation gift

is to present a higher profile for the field of study as well as spur additional gifts to help recruit an esteemed faculty of Jewish Studies scholars at UWM, according to the university and the donors.

Pearl Berkowitz expressed the foundation’s goal in honoring her parents:

“My parents, Sam and Helen Stahl, set an example for our entire family through their dedication to the furthering of Jewish learning and their support for the Wisconsin and Milwaukee Jewish communities.

“We are all extremely proud to participate in the establishment of the Sam and Helen Stahl Center for Jewish Studies on the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee campus. My late husband, Nathan, and I have always committed ourselves to the goals of teaching the traditions

of our religion and culture. So I am especially honored to express our delight about the opportunities the Stahl Center will present to future generations of students, teachers and the entire community.

“We would like to especially thank Drs. Herman Tuchman and Ray Harkavy, who worked closely with my late husband in defining this vision,” she added. “My family is also very grateful for the dedicated work of my grandson, Jon Schnur, who devoted countless hours to ensuring the gift was realized.”

an inCreasingly PoPular Program“This multidisciplinary program of academic studies

and community education has become increasingly popular because of substantial growth in programs and courses,” added Richard Meadows, dean of the College of Letters and Science. “In addition to providing more space for these programs, this gift will allow UWM to restore a significant historical building for educational purposes.”

Planning and design work for the Greene Museum renovation has begun. Construction is scheduled to start in early 2010 and be completed by the summer of 2010.

Greene Memorial Museum, 3367 N. Downer Ave., was designed by noted Milwaukee architect Alexander C. Eschweiler in 1913, and is on the National Register of Historic Places. Until 1992, it housed a small geology museum, but that collection of rocks and minerals was relocated to a display in UWM’s Lapham Hall, and Greene Museum is currently used for storage.

Center for jeWish stUdies reCeives $2 Million giftBy Kathy Quirk

Stacey Oliker, director of the Center for Jewish Studies, sits on the damaged steps of the Greene Memorial Museum. A $2 million gift from the Baye Foundation will go toward renovating the historic building as the new home of the Sam and Helen Stahl Center for Jewish Studies.

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Mapping yoUr fUtUreThe answers are there in black and gold

Our alumni are on the move. Sometimes it’s

a move up, or a move forward – landing a big

promotion, launching a new career. Other alumni are

returning to UWM to prepare for an entirely new career,

or to boost their current credentials with online and

blended learning options that better accommodate school/

work/life balance for nontraditional college students.

Then there’s the big move that nobody expects, but that many

Americans now have to deal with: a move to the unemployment

line. Career counselors at UWM tell us they are hearing from record

numbers of alumni who have been phased out, furloughed,

retired early or just let go by their employers.

So we’ve made these topics the focus of this issue. We’ve asked experts to weigh

in. You’ll hear from UWM career counselors working with alumni from diverse

backgrounds. You’ll meet alumni who have left their jobs, lost their jobs, returned to

school — and how they handle these transitions.

If you’re at a personal or professional crossroads yourself, we’ve included an index of

career counseling and back-to-school resources exclusively available to UWM alumni.

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Unemployment figures – ubiquitous as they may be – can’t tell the full story behind why many Americans are losing their jobs.

Numbers can’t begin to explain the “Why me?” moment that befell UWM alumnus Pierre Aterianus in January 2009, when the controls engineer was laid off after 25 years in manufacturing.

“Your first thought really is, ‘Couldn’t they have picked somebody else?,’” Aterianus admits.

Numbers alone didn’t inspire a job search for 2003 alumna Trishla Shah. She left a home and job in Florida to return to Milwaukee in 2008.

“I was on call,” Shah says of her previous career in adoption placement. “I worked lots of evenings and holidays, and I was really tired and ready for a change.”

Despite the differences in their profes-sional backgrounds, Aterianus and Shah found job search support by leveraging the one thing they have in common: a UWM degree. Shah and Aterianus both turned to UWM Alumni Career Services.

The Counselor is inSince hiring a full-time alumni career

counselor in 2006, UWM Alumni Career Services, a collaboration of UWM Alumni Relations and UWM’s Career Develop-ment Center (CDC), has served hundreds of alumni looking for their next, or their first, job.

UWM career counselors include (from left) Yolanda White, program manager at the Career Transitions Center; Tom Bachhuber, director of the UWM Career Development Center; and Cindy Petrites, alumni career counselor. Their collective client roster includes current UWM undergraduate students, new and longtime alumni, and community members.

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More than a resUMe revieW Career counseling offers structure, support to alumni job seekers

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Career counseling, resume review, the latest technological tools for job seekers, plus networking events and instructional Webinars are just a few of the resources and opportunities all UWM alumni can access through Alumni Career Services free of charge, or for a small fee.

Traffic to both the CDC and Alumni Career Services – located within the CDC – has increased alongside national unemployment numbers, says CDC Director Tom Bachhuber.

“We are seeing significantly more alumni clients – individual appointments and walk-in advising are up 40 percent,” Bachhuber says. “Student traffic is about the same.”

Alumni find themselves in the Career Services office, or on its Website (uwm.edu/alumni/career_services/), tapping into a variety of resources and seeking diverse career advice. Resources and advice – timely, practical, ranging from what to wear and what to say, to “Where do you see yourself in five years?” – is always free.

“But for most alumni, the career counsel-ing relationship starts with a resume,” says Alumni Career Counselor Cindy Petrites.

Petrites arrived at the Alumni Asso-ciation in 2006, and one-on-one career counseling quickly became her primary task. Today, she says, about 40 percent of her time is spent in individual consultations with alumni.

Her caseload is a true sign of the times: From Jan. 1 to June 30, 2008, Petrites

worked in person with 76 alumni. During that same period one year later, she counseled 144 alumni.

The clientele, she says, also has changed. “I see fewer folks who have the luxury to question their current job, and more mature workers.”

Moreover, many of them already have a sense that the successful job search must be conducted both online and offline – though striking the right balance between electronic and interpersonal networking takes some practice.

“I recommend that 75 percent of your energy go into networking,” says Bachhuber. “And networking is not schmoozing or asking people if they know where an opening is. Successful networking is about developing collegial relationships through researched, insightful questions and comments. This establishes credibility in the minds of potential employers. From there you can advance to discussion on jobs and recruitment.

“We tell our clients they also need to be checking a full range of job boards every day,” he adds. “But job boards are often dark holes, and posted jobs online or in print represent a percentage of the market – usually 20 to 40 percent depending on your field.”

iT’s noT all abouT youA new phenomenon for Juli Pickering,

director of Career Services in the College

of Engineering & Applied Science, is the rescinded job offer. In addition to seeing her caseload increase by about 20 percent, she has watched a handful of recent college graduates accept job offers right around graduation time – only to see the offers disappear weeks later.

“I am seeing graduates who would have no problem finding a job in another economy, but right now the job search is very tough.”

“This economy has affected everyone,” agrees Greg Krejci, director of the Career Services Center in the Sheldon B. Lubar School of Business. “People are inclined to ask, ‘What have I done? How did I cause this?’

“Companies are making adjustments in cost structures; they are laying people off. Most people who I see coming back to UWM for career advice have not done anything wrong. It just happens.”

sTraTegize, Personalize, revise

Alumni career counseling focuses not on what went wrong, but instead deals with what’s needed to prepare alumni for their next moves: a new resume, carefully rehearsed questions, a professional network of old contacts and new connections – among other variables.

To build and/or expand one’s personal network, counselors unanimously suggest getting in on social networking

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“We are seeing significantly more alumni clients – individual appointments and walk-in advising are up 40 percent.”

technologies from day one. The University is well represented on LinkedIn, Facebook and Plaxo, to name a few. But time online can’t be seekers’ only strategy.

“Alternative networking and social media are great tools,” Pickering says, “but we remind seekers not to forget personal contact: thank-you cards, meeting in person for an informational interview, dressing well for a career fair.”

Petrites might start things off with a resume review, but she’s also a huge proponent of the job search plan – spend-ing time helping alumni determine their search strategy, plus tips to implement it.

“It’s a huge advantage,” she says. “If you don’t build in opportunities for fun and for small successes along the way, the job search can feel even more overwhelming.”

Petrites doesn’t have up-to-date figures on how many UWM alumni have landed a new job on her advice. Some folks she talks to only once. “I know that not everyone is going to call you back and tell you that they got a job,” she says.

Other clients face difficulties that make a job search more challenging.

“Sometimes a job search can be just one piece of the puzzle,” says Petrites. “That puzzle might not be complete without personal coun-seling, financial advising, or other services.”

Career counselors have knowl-edge of a wide variety of community resources that alumni can use to get support.

Alumni also can choose to work indirectly with Alumni Career Services by logging onto Webinars, attending regular networking events and subscribing to the career e-newsletter.

More resources are currently under construction.

“When I started in this role, I wasn’t thinking about Webinars and LinkedIn, but now a lot of what we do relies on new technology,” Petrites admits. “We always are look-ing for ways to be responsive to job

seekers’ desire for new things. The situation demands it.”

The Career-Changer

For five years after gradu-ating from UWM, Brenton Frank relied on a “broad, mul-tidisciplinary background in kinesiology” to work in college recreational athletics, followed by a sports psychology position at a golf institute in Texas.

Helping athletes hone their emotional intelligence (EQ), Frank wondered how he could use his kinesiology de-gree to optimize performance outside an athletic setting.

He returned to Milwaukee in January 2009. One of the first calls he made was to Cindy Petrites.

What he did: “Writing, resume building. I went to alumni career fairs and networking groups. I used LinkedIn. Went to informa-tional interviews and looked at each one as an opportunity to take something away from that meeting.”

After spending five years in athletics, he used informational interviews to, among other things, get wardrobe ideas. “Working in athletics,” he says, “I had a different idea about business casual.”

His UWM advantage: “Cindy helped me take the time to make personal connec-tions with people in my network and parlay these into getting informational interviews, followed by a thank-you letter. She helped me get my resume consistent and up-to-date, gave me advice to keep my job search moving so that I didn’t get bogged down in the details.”

Where he is today: Frank landed a management trainee position with print powerhouse Quad/Graphics. He’ll spend several months doing four- to six-week rotations in Quad facilities throughout the Midwest before deciding which area of the company he’d like to work in.

The reloCaTorAfter five years as an advocate for chil-

dren and adoptive families and a move to Florida, Trishla Shah was starting to burn out. Add to that some minor health prob-lems and by 2008, Shah was ready for a return to Wisconsin. First she moved, then

The Career-Changer: BrenTon Frank

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There is no one-size-fits-all approach to alumni career counseling at UWM. Here’s a look at the variety of customizable counseling options available:

CAREER DEVELOPMENT CENTER uwm.edu/Dept/CDC/, cdc@uwm.edu, 414-229-4486

This comprehensive career center provides career counseling, workshops, programs, career courses and classroom presentations, as well as print and Web tools, to help students and alumni. The center develops recruitment relationships with a full spectrum of area employers through job fairs, career days, campus interviewing and employer outreach. All counselors work with students and alumni through Express Lane, a program for walk-in advising and resume critiques. All services are free.

CAREER TRANSITIONS CENTER sce-ctc.uwm.edu, 414-227-3243

Since October 2007 the Career Transitions Center, offered through the UWM School of Continuing Education Center for Workforce Development, offers competitively priced classes, seminars, workshops and guidance for adults re-entering the work force, changing careers or striving to advance their current work situations.

The center’s professional staff consults with job seekers and spends time connecting with local industry figures from a wide range of professions – making connections and determining the latest needs within the Southeastern Wisconsin job market. A free consultation and follow-up services are available to job seekers of all backgrounds – alumni and non-alumni, those with or without college degrees. The center’s compassionate approach to career matters is strengthened by client-specific job search tools and strategies to redefine and sharpen resume and interview skills.

COLLEGE Of ENGINEERING & APPLIED SCIENCE CAREER SERVICES uwm.edu/CEAS/careerservicecs/alumni/index.html, ceascareers@uwm.edu, 414-229-6960

Engineering alumni exploring jobs and/or between jobs can receive resume review and job search assistance through the college. Information about career fairs, networking and more also is available. for starters, join the “UW–Milwaukee Engineering Alumni Network” on LinkedIn.

PANTHERJOBS uwm.edu/Dept/CDC/panther_jobs.html

PantherJobs is an electronic resource connecting UWM students and alumni with local and national employers. Current students looking for a part-time job, internship, co-op or full-time position, or alumni looking for new opportunities/networking opportunities, should log onto PantherJobs. Two subscription options are available. A nominal fee may be required depending on alumni experience/requirements.

SHELDON B. LUBAR SCHOOL Of BUSINESS CAREER SERVICES CENTER, ALUMNI PLACEMENT PROGRAM uwm.edu/business/undergrad/career/alumni.cfm, careerserv@uwm.edu, 414-229-5445

This program operates on a subscription basis for alumni of the Sheldon B. Lubar School of Business. A 12-month subscription costs $45 and includes 26 newsletters, electronic access to current job postings from local employers seeking experienced professionals and resume referrals. Assistance with resume preparation, interview skills and career counseling services also are available. Alumni can attend the school’s annual career fair, held in february.

UWM ALUMNI CAREER SERVICES – A COLLABORATION Of THE UWM ALUMNI ASSOCIATION AND THE CAREER DEVELOPMENT CENTER uwm.edu/alumni/career_services/, petrites@uwm.edu, 414-229-4487

A full range of career resources and services is available to UWM alumni. Career counseling and job search support appointments are available to all alumni from undergraduate and graduate programs of all disciplines. Schedule a 50-minute in-person appointment during business hours at the Career Development Center. Phone consultations are also available.

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she got a part-time job in retail, then she called Alumni Career Services.

What she did: A resume overhaul to emphasize her broad skills and abilities in social services advocacy, youth mentor-ing and fluent Spanish. “I had a lengthy resume that was out of date and used adoption-oriented language. I needed to frame my resume based on all the different professional experiences I have had, not just my last job.”

Shah also took on a temporary assignment at Johnson Controls, which nurtured her long-held interest in business administration.

Her UWM advantage: The resume preparation and mock interviews in the Alumni Career Services office. “Cindy’s interview advice was dead-on accurate. We practiced questions that actually came up in the interview. She even told me words to avoid. Like I kept saying the word ‘adop-tion,’ even though I wasn’t applying for work in adoption services.”

Interview preparation balanced the professional and the personal. Petrites told Shah that “I needed to smile, that I was almost too serious,” Shah remembers. “She said that I should let my personality come across more in the interview.”

Where she is today: All that practice made for a great interview, but Shah didn’t get the job. “That was kind of devastating,” she says. But three months later the organi-zation called her back. Today Shah is that nonprofit’s bilingual intake counselor and an MBA student at a local university.

The maTure workerLiving and working in Milwaukee as a

senior manufacturing engineer, Pierre Ate-rianus has watched his industry undergo profound changes in 25 years. His resume changed with it. He moved from Eaton Dynamatic to Square D to A.O. Smith/Tower Automotive, as each company left Wisconsin. In 2002 he left the automotive industry for home manufacturing.

He was not ready for what happened next: a layoff from his most recent employer, InSinkErator.

“Like a lot of people, I saw the housing downturn, but I felt like I would be okay,” says Aterianus. “At every job I’ve had, I planned on retiring from that company. I certainly didn’t expect a six-month unemployment stretch at this stage in my career.”

What he did: Network. Network. Network. “Being an engineer, you don’t do a lot of marketing yourself,” Aterianus says. “You manage your team and your projects, you talk with salespeople, but networking was not really a part of my job description. Engineers are troubleshooters; we solve problems, we’re very hands-on.”

To build his confidence, Aterianus attended an Alumni Association speed-networking event, job fairs, got his resume onto job boards and connected to LinkedIn.

His UWM advantage: “Whenever I’ve wondered if I’m doing something right or just don’t know where to go next, Cindy has been able to offer direction and just answer those little questions that nag at you,” Aterianus says.

Where he is today: After six first inter-views at local companies, Aterianus is still looking for full-time work or part-time contract employment. He feels he lacks the full confidence he needs to be an aggressive job seeker, but networking comes more naturally to him than it used to. “You hate to tell people you are unemployed,” he admits. “But due to the recession, unemployment is not the stigma it used to be.”

In the meantime, he volunteers weekly with Habitat for Humanity as a release from job search stress, and researches affordable health insurance options.

The new graduaTeJennifer Schuh had early exposure to

the Career Development Center through a

psychology project her sophomore year at UWM. When it came time to revise her resume and seek out some practi-cal advice before graduation, “I knew where to go,” Schuh says.

“I took a class in organizational psychology, and knew that was the direction I wanted to go profession-ally.” Since her work experience in the field was lim-ited and she wasn’t

ready to jump right into graduate school – a necessary path for many working in organizational/industrial psychology – she first wanted entry-level work experience in the field.

What she did: Schuh started her counsel-ing relationship with an intake interview, and a series of worksheets and self-eval-uation exercises to bring into focus her professional and personal values.

“As I was going through these resources and answering questionnaires, I realized that staying close to family was very impor-tant to me,” says the Milwaukee native.

The Alumni Career Services experience helped Schuh identify the parameters of her job search, as well. “I started looking at human resources and customer service positions, because I was able to identify the populations that I would be interested in working with.”

Her UWM advantage: “I don’t have a lot of relevant work experience in organiza-tional psychology, so Cindy encouraged me to list relevant coursework that I took in the field, to demonstrate my interests and abilities in those areas.”

Petrites also helped Schuh develop a series of resumes – one version tailored to employee relations in a human resources environment, another that focuses on customer relations work – and gave her tips on how to tweak her resume based on diverse job openings within those fields.

Schuh also benefited from the take-home materials available to all clients of the Career Development Center. “They really helped me format cover letters

and thank-you notes,” says Schuh. “Even though I knew I should write a thank-you note to everyone who interviewed me, I wasn’t really sure what to say or how much to say. The samples really helped.”

Where she is today:Schuh has interviewed and/or “tested”

with three companies. She continues to work as an assistant project manager in the UWM Project Management Office, but is confident she’ll be employed in her field within a few months. “If not, I’ll probably be right back in Alumni Career Services to see what else I can do.”

The CorPoraTe reCruiTerTammy Hernke is not a UWM alumna,

but she knows the campus well. She’s in the Sheldon B. Lubar School of Business Career Services Center several times a year to interview Lubar students for full-time accounting positions and internships in the Milwaukee office of Deloitte LLP, a Big Four accounting firm.

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Deloitte also is one of several leading companies whose employees speak to Lubar students in lectures and question-and-answer sessions. Deloitte also conducts mock interviews in the Lubar Career Services Center.

What she does: Though she recruits primarily new college graduates, she advises job candidates at every stage to connect with campus career resources, whether through an alumni association or an academic unit within the school.

“I do think that’s an important connection to make,” says Hernke. “They can provide help early on with resume preparation, and they have networking and industry connections that can be valuable to students.”

What she says: When it comes to networking, Hernke says holding onto contacts for the long term is key, as is developing a positive rapport with anyone and everyone on your career path.

“You never know whom you’ll meet, or where you could meet someone who could become an important contact for you,” she says. “Always think carefully about how you can work with others as you continue in your career.”

alumni Career serviCes

Alumni Career Services offers phone and in-person career counseling

opportunities for job seekers from all backgrounds and circumstances. All that is

required is a UWM degree. for event dates, times and locations, plus updates on

expanded resources for 2009-10, visit uwm.edu/alumni/career_services/.

Career Webinars anD pODCasts: Take part in these one-hour sessions

live from your computer, or listen to a past Webinar via podcast. Topics include:

•Creatingajobsearchplan

•High-impactresumesandcoverletters

•Effectiveemploymentinterviews

Career e-neWsletters: features career stories of real alumni, news/

upcoming events, ways to connect and information to enhance your career

or career search. Sign up at www.alumni.uwm.edu.

linkeDin grOup: Network with more than 3,200 UWM alumni on

the professional networking Website LinkedIn.com. To join, visit the

“Online Connections” section of the alumni Website or visit linkedin.com

and type “UWM Alumni Association” into the “Groups” search field to

request membership in the group. You may also e-mail alumni@uwm.edu

for an invitation.

faCebOOk: Social network with other Panthers. Become a fan of the

UWM Alumni Association.

alumni Career serviCes netWOrk On ning.COm: Take part in

discussions and share career advice and experiences with fellow alumni.

Visit UWMAlumniCareerServices.ning.com/ to create a profile.

upCOming alumni events:

•AlumniB2Bnetworkingevent.

•UWMAllMajorsCareerDay,Oct.15,2009,9a.m.-2p.m.,UWMUnion,

Wisconsin Room. This event offers job search opportunities for new

graduates, plus networking opportunities for graduates who are several

years post-college.

•MonthlyNetworkingBreakfasts:SecondWednesdayofthemonth,

8 a.m., beginning Jan. 13, 2010.

•WebinarsThe new graduaTe: JenniFer SChuh

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reCruiTing For deloiTTe SinCe 2007

By Laura L. Hunt

online and in-person learning give adUlt stUdents

options

Mapping yoUr fUtUreThe answers are there in black and gold

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Lindsey Kempinski planned to immediately complete her master’s in Occupational Therapy upon finishing her bachelor’s. It just made sense, because better-paying OT jobs require a master’s degree.

But, during her last year as an undergraduate in the College of Health Sciences, Kempinski was surprised by an unplanned pregnancy. She worried that she might have to interrupt her plans for a graduate degree so she could juggle the demands of a baby.

A solution appeared in the form of a new “blended” degree program in OT – one in which some of the coursework is done online and some of it is taught in a traditional face-to-face format.

“Those blended courses made it so much easier for me to get the degree while staying at home more with my daughter,” she says. Today she is employed at Aurora West Allis Memorial Hospital.

Enrollment in all-online and blended, or hybrid, degree programs is on the rise at UWM. But the blended programs allow students the convenience of completing some of the coursework around their family and work obligations without losing the personal contact with faculty and classmates.

Currently, 11 bachelor’s degree programs, a certificate program and three master’s programs are offered in a blended format, which could consist

of a mix of hybrid, online and in-person courses.

More than 4,700 UWM students took at least one blended or online course last year.

After receiving a $500,000 grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation in 2007, UWM began expanding its hybrid courses in order to make higher education more accessible for adult and working students.

MUltiple ChoiCes“It’s all about options for students who

want to obtain their degrees,” says Tom O’Bryan, associate dean in the College of Letters and Science. “They can do that in multiple ways.”

Ron Granberg, who lives in Baraboo with his wife and two children, figured the only way he could finish a bachelor’s degree was if he could do it at his own pace and totally online.

Since Granberg was already working in information technology, a friend who works at UW–Baraboo told him about the online Information Resources degree program at UWM.

“I do most of my coursework online after the kids go to bed about 8 or 9,” he says. “But I feel like I’m connected even though I’m a long ways away.”

Not all students are comfortable with courses offered exclusively online, says Robert Kaleta, director of the UWM

Learning Technology Center, which is internationally recognized for training faculty to teach online and to transform traditional face-to-face courses into blended ones.

Sylvester Cutler was one of those students looking for convenience, but he also preferred some face-to-face contact while obtaining his master’s degree in Higher Education Administration.

“It allows me to change things around in my schedule so I get to do the things I really want to do, like coaching youth basketball,” Cutler says.

Cutler will be taking one traditional course and one online course this fall as he begins his doctoral program in Urban Education while also working in the Athletics Department at University School in Mequon.

“It took me a while to get used to the completely online courses,” he says. “You have to remember to spend time on it every day. You learn to budget your time well.”

But Cutler says the all-online courses have their own advantages.

“What I liked the most was the diversity of the other people taking the online courses. In doing projects with them, you meet people from other states and other parts of the world.”

for More aBoUt online and in-person learningStudents can choose a blended bachelor’s degree in any of the online majors in the College of Letters and Science, plus Criminal Justice, Information Resources and Early Childhood Education. Blended master’s degree programs are offered in Higher Education Administration, Occupational Therapy and Computer Science, along with several certificate programs. For more on online offerings at UWM, go to uwm.edu. Click on “Future Students.”

offiCe of adUlt and retUrning stUdent serviCesThinking of coming back to UWM but don’t know where to start? The Office of Adult and Returning Student Services (OARSS) can help. Whether you’re changing careers, interested in pursuing a graduate degree, or just want to take a class for fun, OARSS has the answers. Get in touch with an adviser who can work with you one-on-one. By e-mail: oarss@uwm.edu By phone: 414-229-5932

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Career qUestions By Cindy Petrites, Alumni Career Counselor

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to submit a question for Career Questions, please send an e-mail with the subject line “Career Questions” to petrites@uwm.edu. more information on uWm alumni career services is available on the Web at www4.uwm.edu/alumni/career_services/.

1. DOn’T lOOk exClUSIvelY On THe OnlIne jOb bOArDS.

The big job boards can be great for seeking opportunities, learning about job titles in a field you’re exploring and finding out about organizations that are hiring, but they shouldn’t be the last place you look. The common wisdom is that the majority of jobs are never posted, which means that job searching should be a balanced strategy of applying for jobs online and networking.

2. DOn’T ASk neTWOrkIng COnTACTS fOr jObS.

Having a networking contact is having a link to information – about an organization/company, position, career path or industry. It can even be a link to information about the “decision-maker” you are trying to reach.

But networking is fundamentally about building relationships, and it’s the rare person who will forward valuable information to someone they barely know.

UWM alumna Karen Zoller talks about the importance of “wiggle room.” “I'll say something like, ‘If you are comfortable with this…’ so I can take them off the hook. If they can suggest someone else to talk to,

I’m grateful for their suggestion and leave it at that.”

UWM alumnus Eric Ness, who has often been contacted by job hunters, says an e-mail that reads like this: “Hello, I found you through the UWM Alumni Association on LinkedIn and I see from your profile that you have worked in the telecommunications industry for many years. I’m graduating from UWM in May with a degree in electrical engineering, and I was wondering if you might be able to assist me in my job search…” is much more likely to elicit a positive response than a generic form letter.

3. DOn’T SenD OUT One reSUMe TO MAnY DIfferenT kInDS Of jObS.

In this economy, many job seekers must be open to opportunities they might not have considered before. It’s important when applying for any position, but particularly for a position outside of your industry or typical scope, to tailor your resume for the desired job.

That does not mean rewriting your resume from scratch every time you sit down to apply for a job; rather, it means putting together a resume with an objective or summary that speaks to the job description and describing your experience and

training in ways that matter to your prospective employer.

Remember that an employer is looking not just for someone who can do the job, but for a “good fit,” and tailoring your resume can demonstrate that.

4. DOn’T TrY TO gO IT AlOne. Job seeking can be a long and

lonely process. To remedy that, here are some suggestions:• Network. It’s not only an important

job search strategy; it also helps you feel connected and like you’re making progress.

• Find a job search buddy, and meet with that person on a weekly basis to work toward your goals and celebrate your successes.

• Work with a career counselor to get your materials and job search strategy in optimal shape.

• Join networking groups. Stay informed about job search-related events and go to them.

Welcome to Career Questions, your connection to career information for UWM alumni! This is the first in a series of columns in which you can ask UWM’s alumni career counselor your career-related questions.

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It’s “high five” time for the popular Panther Prowl 5-K run/walk event, which will kick off for the fifth straight year at 10 a.m. on Sunday, Oct. 11, on the UWM campus – all in the pursuit of scholarship funds for deserving UWM students.

Sponsored by the UWM Alumni Association again in 2009, this certified 5-K event will also benefit programming efforts aimed at UWM alums. The Panther Prowl route, which crosses the campus and winds in and out of beautiful Upper Lake Park, has remained popular with runners and walkers and will stay the same.

Last year, a record 1,104 striders participated in the Prowl. The goal in 2009 is to attract 1,200+ runners and walkers, including many who will participate as part of a team.

New this yearNew this year is the inclusion of the Prowl in

another emerging UWM tradition, the UWM Family Weekend. In its second year, Family Weekend is scheduled for Oct. 10-12 on the campus, with the Prowl featured as the capstone event. The family gathering is a time for parents and siblings to join students for a great weekend of discovery about campus life at UWM – and fun. For more information about Family Weekend, visit familyweekend.uwm.edu.

early-bird registratioN through oct. 2

Early-bird registration is under way on the Website at pantherprowl.net. Through Oct. 2, the fees are $20 for adults and $15 for students and children. The fees will go up $5 per person

beginning Oct. 3. Participants may also register by filling in and submitting the form in the Panther Prowl 2009 brochure bound into this issue of UWM Today.

Last-minute entrants can sign up on the day of the event in the UWM Union Concourse as well, beginning at 8:30 a.m. and continuing until 9:45 a.m.

The registration fee includes a great array of food and beverages, entertainment, special gift bag and a high-quality, long-sleeved T-shirt.

Awards will be presented at a big After-Party on Spaights Plaza right after the race. Trophies will be awarded to the

top three male and female finishers in each age bracket, top overall female and male finishers, fastest team, largest team and top

pledge-raising team.

For moreFor more information about

Panther Prowl 2009, visit pantherprowl.net

or contact Peppy O’Neill, program manager for Alumni Relations,

at 414-906-4655 or peppy@uwm.edu.

panther proWl CeleBrates a Big ‘high five’annual 5-k run/walk is coming on ocT. 11

By Peppy O’Neill

Career qUestions By Cindy Petrites, Alumni Career Counselor

I attended the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee in the mid-1960s and I will always be grateful for the fine education I received. I earned a bachelor of science degree in Journalism and a doctorate in Parallel Parking.

In those days, UWM was almost exclusively a commuter school and that meant that finding a parking space within a couple of blocks of the campus on a

regular basis was a major achievement, one that could almost ensure you would make the Dean’s List.

Finding a spot close to campus and one in which you could park for more than two hours was considered akin to an archaeological discovery. Math majors obviously had the edge in this department because they were analytical, left-brain thinkers who could calculate the odds of

this alignment of the stars and the cars, and, yeah, because they were the only ones who actually knew how to use a slide rule.

But the elusive holy grail of campus parking was finding a spot relatively close to campus and one in which you could legally park all day. In truth, no one in the history of UWM has ever managed to accomplish that feat although quantum

gradUating With a B.s. in joUrnalisM and…

a ph.d. in parkingWritten by Jerry Resler ’68 Illustrated by Stuart Carlson ’78

physicists have since speculated that it might be possible. Some have even postulated that there may in fact be at least half a dozen parallel universes in which thousands of such spots are readily available each day.

Admittedly, students at UWM today still search daily for places to park on the street. But there is now far less competition because several thousand students live in campus dorms and those who commute have garages and surface lots on campus in which they can park for a fee. Yes, there were a few surface lots in the 1960s but as I recall they were reserved for the chancellor and his staff, distin-guished professors and members of the illuminati.

The rest of us who were not endowed with power, prestige, and secret handshakes and passwords handed down through the centuries were relegated to fend for ourselves and hunt for parking spots on the street.

The trouble was keeping one step ahead of the law. There were no parking checkers back then so the job of ticketing fell to regular police officers, in particular hulking, merciless leather-jacketed bike cops on Harleys who were known to issue tickets for parking four centimeters too far from the curb or too close to a mole’s home. As careful as I tried to be, I accumulated a tidy share of parking tickets in the four years I spent as an undergraduate.

One afternoon, while walking with a friend to our cars after class, I was chagrined to find a ticket on my windshield for parking too close to the corner. “Oh, fiddlesticks!” I yelled again and again. On second thought, maybe it was another “F” word but that’s neither here nor there.

“Why are you so upset?” my friend asked.

“What are you talking about?” I replied. “It’s a parking ticket, man!”

He went on to tell me that he got tickets all the time and never paid them. Instead, he insisted, he just tore them up and threw the pieces down the nearest sewer and the problem went away. And although he claimed he had been ticketed something like 25,000 times, he never paid a single fine and nothing ever came of it.

He then offered to deep-six my ticket, too. I must admit I thought about it but instead took the more

cowardly approach. I put it in my glove compartment and decided to just let it sit there and keep the maps company.

A week or so later, I was alarmed to find something in the mail from the Milwaukee Police Department, a notice informing me that I had been issued a parking citation and I had yet to address the matter. As I recall now, it wasn’t threatening at all but rather very legal and official.

But at the time, in my admittedly anxious and guilty state of mind, this is how it read:

Mr. Gerald Resler:On March 18, a

vehicle that accord-ing to Wisconsin motor vehicle records is registered to you was cited by the Milwaukee Police Department for violating City of Milwaukee parking restriction 309.2/Section 145. So far, you have apparently chosen to disregard this citation, not unlike your foolish friend who thinks he is pulling the proverbial wool over our ever-watchful eyes (be assured we will deal with him later).

This notice is to inform you, Mr. Resler, that if you do not deal with your parking offense within the next 27 minutes, a warrant will be issued for your arrest. And when you are finally found and brought to justice, you should know that you very well may be sent to A.) Prison B.) Vietnam C.) Prison and then Vietnam. Have a nice day.

But while I knew all about the Constitution and my inalienable rights as a U.S. citizen, having just completed a three-credit course in Law and the Press, I also knew I didn’t want to go to prison or Vietnam. So I jumped in my car and immediately drove 95 miles an hour to the nearest police station, confessed to the crime and paid my fine. The desk sergeant was very understanding and I walked out of that station a free man.

America, I thought, is this a great country or what? Unless, of course, you have to find a good parking spot near campus.

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introducing Carlson & resler

longtime readers of the milwaukee Journal sentinel will be familiar with the names and work of stuart Carlson and Jerry resler. both uWm alums, they

premier a new humor column in this issue of uWm today. to introduce two who need no introduction, we asked them to supply short biographies.

stuart CarlsOn (’78 bfa art)

stuart Carlson began drawing at a tender age, often scribbling on the walls of his parents’ apartment with lipstick. He graduated to pen and ink and a 25-year career with the milwaukee Journal sentinel. Carlson took a buyout from the newspaper in 2008, but not before amassing numerous awards, including the John fischetti award and being

named the nation’s best cartoonist by the national press foundation.

His work is syndicated to about 35 newspapers by universal press syndicate and can be seen at numerous locations on the series of tubes known as the internet. Carlson also does freelance illustration and is available for public speaking.

Carlson lives with his wife mary in a maintenance-intensive victorian that could do with a fresh coat of paint.

You can view some of Carlson’s cartoons on his Website, carlsontoons.com.

JerrY resler (’68 bs mass COmmuniCatiOn–JOurnalism)

Jerry resler retired last fall after more than 40 years at the milwaukee Journal sentinel and its parent papers as an award-winning editorial writer, feature writer, reporter, editor and columnist, a career interrupted only by two years of service to uncle sam in the u.s. army.

in spite of all that, resler still managed to keep a sense of humor and for several years wrote a weekly humor column for the sentinel, which he still regards as one of his most memorable journalistic achievements.

resler is now a freelance writer, which is another way of saying he has yet to write the great american novel or, for that matter, even a pilot script for a sitcom on lithuanian tv. but there’s always tomorrow.

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heaTher CzaPPa Czappa was a four-year letterwinner on the UWM women’s swimming team, performing primarily as a backstroke specialist. She was a two-time Midwestern Collegiate Conference cham-pion in the 100-yard backstroke, becoming the first individual women’s conference champion in UWM history.

In all, she set school records in four events during her time at UWM while also earning team MVP honors.

Czappa continued her UWM career by serving as an assistant coach from 1999-2005. During her tenure, both the men’s and women’s swimming and diving teams won MCC championships.

In the classroom, Czappa was on the Dean’s List throughout her UWM career, graduating summa cum laude in 1999. She earned CoSIDA Academic All-America honors while also claiming a spot on the MCC All-Academic Team three times.

bud k. haideT After being hired as athletics director in 1988, Haidet led UWM to unprecedented athletic and academic heights. He guided the program from NAIA status back to NCAA Division I competition and then established UWM as a powerhouse in the Horizon League.

Along the way, Haidet helped UWM athletics build a national reputation, high-lighted by a men’s basketball run to the Sweet 16 in 2005.

Since the transition to Division I in 1990, UWM teams have won 85 league regular-season, tournament and championship titles, while Panther coaches have claimed 67 league Coach of the Year honors.

UWM teams have also excelled on the national stage. Panther squads have made 27 NCAA Tournament appearances, while

individual UWM athletes have appeared in the track and field national championships seven times.

Haidet retired from UWM last summer.

susan (moynihan) manning Sue Manning served as UWM’s first full-time women’s soccer head coach from 1992-96. During that time, she helped the Panthers to 46 victories and their first appearance in the Midwestern Collegiate Conference (now the Horizon League) championship match.

In the 1995 season that culminated with the Panthers in the title game, she also earned Wisconsin Soccer Coaches’ Association Coach of the Year honors.

Manning was responsible for laying the foundation for the incredible success the Panthers have enjoyed over the last decade-plus. In UWM’s first season in the MCC in 1994, she led the Panthers to a second-place finish. By the next season, she led Milwaukee to the MCC title match.

In the process, she recruited the players who would lead the Panthers to their first NCAA Tournament in 1997.

Her contributions to the program are still recognized, as the team gives out the Susan Moynihan Team Award after every season.

suzanne rasChka-korPal Raschka-Korpal played on three league champion volleyball teams during her career at UWM. She also helped UWM teams make the NCAA Tournament in 1998 and 1999, the first two Division I post-season appearances for the Panther volleyball program.

Individually, Raschka-Korpal was a two-time First Team All-MCC performer while also claiming MCC Player of the Year honors in 1999. Plus, she claimed First-Team American Volleyball Coaches Association All-Region honors during her senior season.

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The latest inductees into the Bud K. Haidet Athletics Hall of Fame are (from left) Heather Czappa, Bud Haidet, Hugh Thompson, Suzanne Raschka-Korpal and Susan (Moynihan) Manning. The Hall of Fame was renamed for Haidet during his retirement reception in April.

Five named to Haidet Hall oF Fame By Kevin J. O’Connor, Sports Information Director

Five members of UWM’s athletic community have been inducted into the newly renamed Bud K. Haidet Athletic Hall of Fame. In addition to Haidet himself, they include three former student-athletes and a coach.

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Raschka-Korpal was the first Panther to win the Player of the Year honor, af-ter a stellar season as a middle blocker. She was named to the All-Tournament team at all three tourneys the Panthers played that year, while earning league Player of the Week honors twice.

Thanks to her stellar work in the classroom, Raschka-Korpal claimed both CoSIDA Academic All-Region and MCC All-Academic Team honors throughout her career.

hugh ThomPson Thompson was a baseball standout during his time at UWM.

In fact, Thompson starred on the mound. He pitched in 15 games over two seasons, completing seven of those contests. Thompson posted a 3.43 earned-run average and tallied 62 strikeouts in 82 innings.

During his sophomore season, Thompson played first base when he was not pitching, and wound up lead-ing the team in hitting and pitching that year. He was offered a contract to play professional baseball in the Cleveland organization, but turned it down to stay in school. Shortly after that his reserve unit was activated, halt-ing both his education and his career.

Thompson also excelled academi-cally, earning a spot on the Dean’s List at UWM while serving as a member of the Delta Sigma Kappa fraternity.

In 2005, he was inducted into the Wisconsin Baseball Hall of Fame.

tHe Bud K. Haidet atHletic Hall oF Fameretired uWm director of athletics bud Haidet made many contributions to panther athletics during his 21 years in charge. now, those contributions will live on in the bud k. Haidet athletic Hall of fame. the renaming also kicks off a fund-raising initiative to redevelop the hall of fame in the concourse of the klotsche Center. the centerpiece will be a state-of-the-art, interactive touch-screen system that will feature information on every member of the hall of fame. the area will also include ample room for donor names as well as new trophy cases featuring awards and memorabilia.

you Can helPif you are interested in supporting the bud k. Haidet athletic Hall of fame fund-raising effort, please contact eric anderson at 414-229-3016 or eric@uwm.edu.

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uWm captures FiFtH league all-sports aWard

Another stellar year for Panther sports was capped with the McCafferty Trophy, given to the Horizon League’s overall all-sports champion.

This marks the fifth time UWM has captured the trophy. UWM also won the Women’s All-Sports Award for the eighth time.

The Panthers claimed the crowns, in part, by collect-ing seven regular-season and post-season league titles.

Two teams – women’s volleyball and women’s soc-cer – won both regular-season and tournament titles. The men’s track and field team won both the indoor and outdoor league titles, while the women’s team captured the indoor crown.

UWM won its first McCafferty Trophy following the 2000-01 school year, and then claimed the award in three straight years from 2004-06.

The trophy is presented in honor of James J. Mc-Cafferty, the former Xavier University men’s basketball coach and director of athletics, who served as the Horizon League’s first commissioner in 1979-80.

ncaa recertiFication eFForts end in roaring success For pantHer atHletics

After an in-depth review of UWM’s athletic programs and operations, the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) has recertified the university as an NCAA Division I institution through 2019.

“Our athletes, students and fans, coaching staff and faculty can take pride in knowing every aspect of UWM athletics meets the rigorous NCAA criteria,” said UWM Vice Chancellor for Partnerships and Innovation Joan Prince, who led the 18-month review process and the 50-member steering committee. “There are no issues or deficiencies that must be addressed.”

“Our overall success in athletics involves the entire campus and community, and the successful completion of this review process is no different,” said new UWM Athletics Director George Koonce. “Our coaches, staff and student-athletes should be very proud of the things they do, while the campus community and our many fans get to see the NCAA believes we are doing quality work.

“Athletics and academics should go hand in hand, and these results show we are on the right track.”

Junior Jeremy Waldhart, who received a 2009 Coaches Award for “excellence in the pool and in school,” was one of the student members of the UWM NCAA Recertification Steering Committee.

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As an art educator for more than 50 years, including public schools, technical college, university and television, Allen Caucutt has mentored scores of student teachers. He was the featured artist for the Channel 10/36 Annual Auction in 1986 and the first artist to appear in Milwaukee Public School’s Educational Television Classes. Still a producing artist, he has major artworks in more than 75 public venues and 1,500 private collections.

A recurring theme in the numerous letters supporting his award nomination is that Caucutt does not just teach his students; he inspires them by example. He demonstrates to the teachers in his classes that the environment they create for their students is crucial to learning – that each student should feel welcome, safe, appreciated, valued and loved.

In 1999, Caucutt was awarded the Citation for Distinguished Teaching in the State of Wisconsin by both houses of the Wisconsin Legislature and retired from his 42-year career as an elementary-school art teacher. His work as an educator continued, however, at UWM and as a volunteer. In 2006, he received the UWM Peck School of the Arts Outstanding Service to the Arts Award on the occasion of his 50th anniversary in teaching.

Now 74, Caucutt still teaches two undergraduate classes at UWM each semester, speaks to classes and community organizations, and teaches first- and third-grade art as a volunteer at an elementary school in Oconomowoc. He also serves as a juror and exhibitor at art events.

For many former students and colleagues, Caucutt remains “the most notable and influential person I have ever met.”

Greg Cook is the first UWM alumnus to lead not only a major Chicago architecture practice, but one of the most distinguished practices in the country – a great honor for both Cook and UWM, says Bob Greenstreet, dean of UWM’s School of Architecture and Urban Planning.

Cook is the managing principal of Holabird & Root, Chicago, a 125-year-old firm that holds an important place in American architectural history. Many Chicago landmarks, including the Board of Trade, Soldier Field and the Chicago City Hall, were designed by members of the practice. Cook’s leadership has continued this tradition of great architecture.

Some of his own work includes Chicago-area projects such as the Nissan Motor Corporation’s Regional Office, the Chicago Historical Society addition and renovation,

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2009 UWM Alumni Association AwardsThirteen alumni of the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee who have distinguished themselves through

outstanding achievements in their careers and civic involvement have been named recipients of the 2009 UWM Alumni Association awards. They were honored at the association’s annual Awards Reception in May. Distinguished Alumnus winners also were recognized during Spring Commencement ceremonies.

“Through their distinctive career accomplishments and community leadership, these UWM alumni are credited with an impressive list of important contributions,” says Andrea Simpson, executive director of the UWMAA. “We are proud to recognize them as part of our growing worldwide network of over 130,000 UWM alumni.”

Distinguished Alumnus AwardsThe Distinguished Alumnus Award celebrates outstanding UWM graduates whose professional achievements and commitment to the community bring honor to the university.

Distinguished Alumnus Award in the Field of Art and Education

Allen b. Caucutt ’63 MA Art Education ’57 BA Art Education Distinguished Alumnus

Award in the Field of Business and Architecture

greg b. Cook ’81 Master of Architecture

and the Federal Reserve Bank expansion and renovation. But his 34-year career also has yielded architecture throughout the U.S.

He has become a respected leader in Chicago’s architectural community, leading the Large Firm Roundtable, a regular meeting of the principals of Chicago’s architectural firms.

He started his career at Holabird & Root by launching from scratch a branch of the practice in Rochester, Minn. Within a few years, he had a thriving group of more than 20 architects and engineers engaged in projects throughout the Midwest.

In the mid-’90s, Cook returned to the Chicago practice as chief of operations and successfully kept the office profitable during the recession.

He established a mentoring program within the company that encouraged employees to obtain a broad experience. He also led a program that assists interns taking the architectural licensing exam, and then provided financial reward as they passed their tests. As a result, Holabird & Root has become an office that attracts many architecture graduates.

Cook continues to support the UWM School of Architecture and Urban Planning. He was a founding member of the STAR Fund that provides financial assistance to outstanding architecture students, and has been responsible for attracting and retaining many of the school’s most gifted and diverse students.

Susan Firer, the current Poet Laureate of Milwaukee, has been an energetic and creative force supporting poetry and the Milwaukee Public Library during her appointment, which began last year.

Of the five city poets to hold the title of Poet Laureate, Firer’s concern for the city as a writing subject is unique. Her most recent book, for example, is “Milwaukee Does Strange Things to People: New & Selected Poems 1979-2007.”

In the last year, Firer has met with at-risk students in the ArtWorks Program to discuss reading, writing and her own experiences. As laureate, she has read her poems at the Milwaukee Catholic Home and discussed Milwaukee’s literary life with downtown Milwaukee’s Cultural Ambassadors. Most recently, she was appointed poetry editor for the Shepherd Express, reviving a department that had disappeared from the newspaper for some time.

She also has taken the laureate’s influence beyond the limits of Milwaukee County, participating in the gathering of laureates last summer in Nebraska that included U.S. Poet Laureate Ted Kooser.

“Notable as these recent accomplishments are, they are really just the latest chapter in a lifetime of devotion to poetry – writing it, teaching it and spreading the good news about it,” says her nominator.

Firer has been widely published and has taken her work and her teaching skills to libraries, schools, prisons and civic groups for 30 years. Her publications include five books, two of which garnered national prizes, and honors such as a Wisconsin Arts Board Fellowship and publication in “The Best American Poetry.”

Her reputation locally and nationally brings honor to UWM because she is so strongly identified with the University’s Creative Writing Program and her work is so rooted in Milwaukee life.

In addition to performing at a world-class level on flute, clarinet and saxophone, John Hibler has worked as a music educator in the Milwaukee area for more than 30 years.

Hibler’s musical career has included performing in radio and TV commercials, with touring Broadway show pit orchestras and as an “extra” with the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra. Hibler is the first call saxophonist with the Waukesha Symphony and the Milwaukee Ballet orchestras.

In 1969, Hibler co-founded and performed in the LeBlanc Fine Arts Saxophone Quartet, which performed at the prestigious First Word Saxophone Congress in Chicago and recorded for the Coronet label. In addition, he has played for the Fireside Theatre in Fort Atkinson, Wis., and was a member of the Melody Top Orchestra for 23 years.

In 1997, he received the Milwaukee Civic Association Music Teacher of the Year Award. During 1996-97, he was principal conductor of the UWM Youth Wind Ensemble II and was featured soloist with the UWM Summer Wind Ensemble on its Scandinavian tour.

Hibler taught instrumental music in the South Milwaukee and Elmbrook school systems for 31 years. He spent the last 23 years at Brookfield East High School, retiring in 1999. At Brookfield East, his bands and individual student musicians won hundreds of first-place awards in contest performances. The Brookfield East Music Department was awarded a GRAMMY

Distinguished Alumnus Award in the Field of Creative Writing

Susan firer ’82 MA English/Creative Writing, ’73 BA General Liberal Arts

Distinguished Alumnus Award in the Field of Music and Education

john l. Hibler’68 BS Music Education

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and $5,000 from the NARAS Foundation for Excellence in Music Education, largely due to Hibler’s efforts.

For the past 10 years, Hibler has continued to inspire students in his work as an adjunct woodwind instructor at Wisconsin Lutheran College and at UWM.

Allan Klotsche is an alumnus who has really gone places. As president of Brady Corporation’s Asia Pacific Operations, he has logged millions of airline miles while leading the growth and development of Brady’s business across the Asia Pacific region. That area of the world now accounts for approximately one-third of Brady’s business.

Klotsche, grandson of UWM’s first chancellor, J. Martin Klotsche, is a strong advocate for both UWM and for

international programs. He is president of the Lubar School of Business International Business Advisory Council and a member of the Advisory Board of UWM’s Institute of World Affairs.

Each year, he organizes a visit to Brady’s Chinese operations for the Executive MBA’s international residency program. This summer, he will sponsor two overseas internships for Lubar School students, offering them the opportunity to work on projects in the company’s Beijing operations.

Three years ago when he was a UWM commencement speaker, he talked to graduates about the importance of an international perspective in business.

“It is critical for you to understand that the world and workplace that you are entering is no longer rotating around the axis of the United States. Your opportunities and challenges will likely come from places far away from the shores of Lake Michigan.”

As vice president of the Brady Corporation Foundation, he helps focus charitable contributions to help develop a pipeline of future leaders. Talented employees from diverse backgrounds are essential to the success of Brady and other companies, Klotsche emphasized in his commencement speech. The foundation has provided major grants to the Next Door Foundation for its Leaders of Tomorrow program, the United Community Center’s Achiever Academy and the Lubar School of Business Brady Corporation Future Leader Fund.

Klotsche is married with two sons and is actively involved in Milwaukee community activities, including Junior Achievement, Boy Scouts and Big Brothers Big Sisters.

School of Architecture & Urban Planning

Lora A. Strigens’02 Master of Architecture, Master of Urban PlanningLora Strigens follows in the

footsteps of her nominator, School of Architecture & Urban Planning Dean Bob Greenstreet. She’s making a dual, local impact as a UWM educator and

creative force in Milwaukee architecture.Strigens joined the firm Hammel, Greene & Abrahamson

(HGA) in 1999, as a student in SARUP’s graduate program in Urban Planning. Today she is project manager and lead planner on one of the firm’s major projects: the UWM Master Plan.

“In a project of such importance to both the future of the University as well as to the economic future of Milwaukee,

Lora has worked closely with top leadership at UWM and more than 800 stakeholders – from neighbors and students to CEOs, donors and research partners,” says Greenstreet.

Additional contributions to Milwaukee’s architectural renaissance include Strigens’ work on the award-winning Discovery World at Pier Wisconsin, the Harley-Davidson Museum and pro bono consulting for the central city’s up-and-coming SoHi District.

How urban patterns shape cities and the interrelationship of architecture and urban planning in global cities is the focus of her SARUP lecture course “Planning for Great Cities,” required for students earning a certificate in Urban Planning.

Causes promoting green architecture, responsible real estate development, preservation of historic buildings and early exposure to architecture and urban planning issues among high schoolers also benefit from Strigens’ volunteerism and ongoing professional development.

Distinguished Alumnus Award in the Field of Business

Allan j. klotsche’94 EMBA, ’87 BBA Marketing

Gold AwardsThe GOLD Award recognizes recent graduates who have achieved a measure of success in their field, bringing credit to themselves and to the University.

Peck School of the ArtsJoshua R. Schmidt’99 BFA Music Composition & TechnologyJosh Schmidt was the first student

to graduate from UWM’s Music Composition & Technology program. His work as a composer, sound designer and musician has been garnering increased regional and national acclaim

in the past few years. His recent musical adaptation of the 1923 play, “The Adding Machine,” has enjoyed a successful Off-Broadway run at the Minetta Lane Theatre in New York, where the production has won numerous awards, including Best Musical.

Schmidt’s composition/sound design work has been featured across the United States. Venues encompass both coasts, including Seattle Repertory Theatre, South Coast Repertory (California), Alley Theatre (Houston), Steppenwolf Theatre Company (Chicago), Kennedy Center and Ford’s Theatre (Washington, D.C.), University of Rochester and Bard College (New York).

In Wisconsin, he has worked with American Players Theatre (Spring Green), Milwaukee Repertory Theater, Milwaukee Ballet Company, Next Act Theatre, Wild Space Dance Company, UWM and many more.

As a recitalist of new music, he has performed in Berlin, Germany, at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, the University of Mississippi–Oxford and throughout Wisconsin.

Schmidt is a recipient of the 2003-05 NEA/TCG Career Development Program Award and was named one of nine emerging designers in Entertainment/Design Magazine in 2004. He has received four Joseph Jefferson Award nominations and two awards for his composition/sound design work in Chicago. In addition, samples of his work were selected to be part of the sound design exhibition at the 2007 Prague Quadrennial.

School of educationGina Kaisler’02 BS Elementary/Middle EducationColleagues and mentors say that

Milwaukee Public Schools teacher Gina Kaisler takes the principles and passion for urban education she learned in UWM’s School of Education and brings them to life in all that she does.

For example, Kaisler received a grant to finance construction of Elm Creative Art School’s Peaceful Playground – a project she helped coordinate, including publication of a schoolwide games handbook. The Metropolitan Milwaukee Alliance of Black School Education named Kaisler Teacher of the Year in 2006.

“Statistical proof of her students’ continued success once they move on to the next grade is one of the most unique characteristics” of Kaisler’s teaching, explains one nominator. Elm teachers in subsequent grades know “which students were Gina’s because of their work ethic, the value that students place on their classwork and their desire to learn,” says another.

Colleagues citywide know Kaisler – now a UWM graduate student – through her work with the Milwaukee Teachers’ Education Association, where she serves as Elm School’s building representative. Speaking engagements have given Kaisler the opportunity to talk on the topic of cross-curricular education to

national audiences, as well as UWM undergraduates interested in education and service learning.

“The impact that Gina Kaisler has had on children, parents and colleagues in such a short period of time in the profession says a lot about her as a human being,” concludes one nomination letter. “If there were to be a set of criteria made to honor educators from UWM, Gina would be the model.”

College of engineering & Applied Science

Murthy S. Munagavalasa ’06 PhD Engineering As a senior research scientist and

a rising star at SC Johnson & Son, Inc., Murthy Munagavalasa has great potential to make significant future contributions to the local economy, the community and UWM through his

research and development activities and civic involvement.While at SC Johnson, Munagavalasa has led the technical

development of a number of new commercial pest-control products, received eight U.S. patents and won numerous corporate awards for research. He has twice earned SC Johnson’s Technical Merit Award, which is the corporation’s highest award for technical excellence.

“Murthy strives toward and succeeds in creating safe, effective and environmentally friendly consumer products in a very highly competitive marketplace both here and abroad,” says one of his nominators.

In addition, he enthusiastically promotes joint research between UWM and his company by sponsoring mutually beneficial projects. He has worked on research with UWM Associate Professor Krishna Pillai since 2001, and has presented some of that work at two international conferences. Several leading-edge technologies continue to be developed and graduate students are being trained through this partnership.

Munagavalasa also gives generously of his time, volunteering in Racine schools and mentoring new scientists working with him.

School of Information Studies Robert L. Bothmann’01 MLISRobert Bothmann has acquired a

national reputation in his profession in a relatively short period of time, which is unusual for graduates with less than 10 years of experience.

An electronic access and catalog librarian and associate professor at

Minnesota State University (MSU), Bothmann has developed a specialty that is in high demand in the field – electronic information management and organization. He is a leader in this specialty at his own university, providing courses and workshops for other professionals as well as for students.

He also has continued to publish research and has presented papers at state, regional and national meetings about metadata and other issues related to information organization. He contributes scholarly literature in the field – reviews, articles and book chapters – at a higher rate than most professionals and has won awards for both his research and professional accomplishments.

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At MSU and at the state and national level, Bothmann has volunteered countless hours to academic committees and professional organizations.

Extremely service-oriented, Bothmann also has been involved with various civic groups, including the LGBT community, teachers, librarians and students.

He has maintained contact with faculty at UWM’s School of Information Studies and has recently been approved to teach as an adjunct professor.

College of letters & ScienceArlene “Oody” J. Petty’05 PhD English, ’00 MS English–Creative Writing, ’99 BA EnglishNewly accepted students might feel

lost in the shuffle or overwhelmed by the volume and variety of educational opportunities offered through UWM’s College of Letters & Science.

Oody Petty, a UWM lecturer, three-time alumna and award-winning poet, does her best to prevent this from happening. She sends a welcome letter to newly accepted students and calls about one week later. Petty’s outreach promises “honest, candid and informative advice,” adding that “If I can’t help you, I will connect you with someone who can.”

“Oody called literally hundreds of students who had not yet chosen a major,” explains one nominator.

The result, says L&S Dean Richard Meadows, is more productive recruiting conversations with students who are a good fit for UWM’s Honors College and Freshman Seminars.

“All the while,” writes Meadows, “she has maintained a challenging teaching schedule and she continues to get rave reviews from her students and colleagues.”

Race, gender, the Renaissance, an appreciation for great writing and the art of writing – from poetry to essays – are among the topics that have inspired her students.

Petty’s fan base extends beyond UWM. While earning three degrees in English in nine years, Petty has flourished as a poet both locally and nationally. Besides publishing her work in numerous journals, Petty reads her own poetry and makes frequent academic presentations.

And anyone interested in earning top fund-raising honors for the 2009 Panther Prowl should beware: Petty raised more than $700 during Panther Prowl 2008.

College of nursing Darin Roark’99 BS NursingDarin Roark’s unique background

in nursing, business marketing and business administration led him to advance from an emergency room technician to the director of operations–critical care for Advocate Health Care in Chicago, and, since his nomination,

to director of the Emergency Department at Orange Park (Fla.) Medical Center.

His career approach helps address the physical, emotional and spiritual needs of patients and nurses.

Roark helped Advocate’s Illinois Masonic Medical Center earn the highest award possible for outstanding nursing care and a

continuance in nursing education. At Advocate, Roark also helped save more than $50 million through cost-saving initiatives.

His commitment to the health care field has led to his involvement at the national level with the Federal Needlestick Safety and Prevention Act, which improves the safety of both patients and nurses.

His involvement with the community kept Roark close to UWM students as well as to his Chicago neighbors. In 2001, he was a guest speaker at the UWM College of Nursing, addressing the importance of nursing research.

He took an active role in the Chicago community as a parishioner of St. Alphonsus Catholic Church and also as a member of the Lakeview Chamber of Commerce.

Helen bader School of Social Welfare Monica Lozer ’01 MS Criminal Justice, ’99 BS Criminal Justice, Spanish Language and Civilization As an investigator with the U.S.

Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, Monica Lozer has been involved in investigations of major civil rights violations among migrant

worker groups.Lozer’s work addresses the civil nature of allegations of

wrongdoing by governmental agencies and private entities. She is among the very few bilingual Latina investigators in the agency.

Lozer is a recipient of the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) Award. She was recognized for success in obtaining relief for undocumented workers through cooperation and outreach with the local community.

According to a nominator, “Lozer has, by all accounts, performed in an outstanding manner. She has taken her interests in the plight of undocumented workers and found an avenue to turn ideas into concrete, meaningful approaches. As attested to in her receipt of the CORE Award, she has produced valued effects. Her efforts provide an example of what can be done when we work to fulfill our aims to benefit not only ourselves but others.”

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Alumni Association awards. nominees must have

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Awards and the Distinguished Alumnus Awards are

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ClassnotesClassnotes

1960scharles hurst (’65 MS Sociology, ’63 bA Sociology) retired in June 2008 after 38 years of teaching in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at the College of Wooster in Wooster, ohio.

william a. Jennaro (’65 bS history), retired Circuit Court judge, has been named best Mediator in the State of Wisconsin in the Wisconsin law Journal’s “best of” poll. Award recipients were chosen by the ballot of lawyers and judges from around the state. Jennaro is a shareholder and attorney with Cook & Franke S.C. of Milwaukee.

william J. lemorande iii (’66 bFA Art) and 2009 Miss Wisconsin briana lipor took a break for a photo while

rehearsing with the U.S. navy band. Miss Wisconsin sang the national Anthem prior to the 30th Annual Armed Forces Dinner at the Wisconsin Club in Milwaukee. the celebration, in honor of Armed Forces Week, is sponsored by the navy league, Milwaukee Council. lemorande is a retired naval commander and an officer in the navy league.

1970sdr. Paul e. hankwitz (’70 bS) has been appointed associate professor of medicine in the Division

of Geriatrics at the Medical College of Wisconsin.

max Neiman (’71 PhD l&S, ’68 MA l&S) is co-author of “Custodians of Place: Governing the Growth and Development of Cities,” published by Georgetown University Press. neiman is associate director at the Public Policy institute of California in San Francisco.

robert Zach, Jr. (’71 bA Political Science) has retired to Mesquite, nv, after 21 years in the financial area, the last 14 with M&i bank as vice president/financial adviser.

robert John Zagar (’73 bA Psychology) has been appointed to a special task force on violent youth by Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley. Zagar’s appointment is the result of his work with youth, to be published in a 14-article monograph in Psychological Reports entitled “violent youth: how to Find them, What Works, and What it Costs.”

dr. dennis J. maiman (’74 bS Clinical Psychology) has been appointed chairman of the Medical College of Wisconsin’s Department of neurosurgery and director of clinical neurosciences at Froedtert hospital. Maiman is an internationally recognized expert in spinal disorders and spinal cord injury.

randy s. Nelson (’74 bbA Accounting), an attorney with Weiss berzowski brady llP of Milwaukee, has been appointed to the American College of trust and estate Counsel (ACteC) business Planning Committee.

michael K. connor (’76 MS education) recently retired after 35 years in public education as a teacher, coach, vice-principal and principal, and is now teaching graduate courses as an adjunct instructor for Concordia and Cardinal Stritch universities.

Francis w. (Fran) deisinger (’76 bA Classics & Mass Communication) has been elected president of the Milwaukee bar Association for 2009-10. he is general counsel with Reinhart boerner van Deuren, a law firm with offices in Milwaukee, Waukesha and Madison, Wis., and Rockford, ill.

marilyn holt-smith (’78 MbA Management, ’76 bA economics), CFA, is founder and managing director of holt-Smith Advisors, a wealth management company based in Madison. holt-Smith Advisors has been named one of the top 10 best-performing money managers by informa investment Solutions PSn, an independent national money manager database. informa awarded its highest level, “6 Star top Gun,” for holt-Smith Advisors’ Mid-Cap Growth product.

Paula lucey (’76 bS nursing), owner and president of lamplighter Consulting llC, and former director of the Milwaukee County Department of health and human Services, was recently elected chairperson of the Medical College of Wisconsin’s Consortium on Public and Community health.

Jessica suchy-Pilalis (’76 bFA Music) is professor of music theory and harp, and chair of the Department of theory, history and Composition, at the Crane School of Music, SUny-Potsdam. her byzantine chant composition, “the order of Service for the lesser Sanctification of Water,” has been published by Antyka Press.

Joseph J. czarnezki (’77 MA Political Science, ’75 bA economics) was elected to a four-year term as

Milwaukee County Clerk on nov. 4, 2008. Czarnezki is a former Wisconsin state senator and a past president of the UWM Alumni Association.

sara Joann (’78 bA Political Science) published her first novel, “our lady of Mystery.”

Jeff eagan (’79 Urban Affairs) has been recognized again by the Department of energy (Doe) for environmental leadership. in the past three years, Doe has received four White house Awards for electronics stewardship under eagan’s direction.

1980smary l. Kwas (’80 MS Anthropology, ’75 bA Anthropology) has had her book, “Digging for history at old Washington,” published by the University of Arkansas Press.

scott h. brownlee (’82 bFA) has been named president and Ceo of the Arts Council of Metropolitan

kansas City.

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For more information about linkedin, log on to www.linkedin.com. to join the group, simply e-mail alumni@uwm.edu and request an invitation to join. Please include your graduation year(s) and full name (at time of graduation) with this request.

sigN uP For your Free uwm alumNi e-mail address.

the uwm alumni association has entered into an agreement to offer all graduates an e-mail account through google. Participants’ new e-mail address will end in @uwmalumni.com. to request an account, visit the uwmaa website at www.alumni.uwm.edu.

deborah chamberlain (’82 MA Mass Communication, ’79 bA Mass Communication), owner of Donaldson

Media & Marketing Services llC, has published her first book, a memoir titled “orange Picnic.”

gerald coon (’82 MS Rehabilitation Counseling) received his Ph.D. in education at Cardinal Stritch University’s Winter Commencement in December 2008. he is the executive director of St. Francis Children’s Center in Milwaukee.

Kathleen mccann (’82 bA Mass Communication) has received a 2008 Paragon Award from the Southeastern Wisconsin Chapter of the Public Relations Society of America. McCann, a senior account executive at Milwaukee-based Zeppos & Associates, earned an Award of excellence in the video Program category for helping Procorp enterprises communicate to customers about a visit by U.S. Sen. Russ Feingold.

dr. catherine drexler (’83 bS nursing) has been appointed assistant professor of anesthesiology at the Medical

College of Wisconsin and to the medical staff of Froedtert hospital. board-certified in anesthesiology, her clinical interests include obstetric anesthesia.

Frank grosskreuz (’84 bbA Marketing), a colonel in United States Army Reserve, has recently been named the U.S. Army Reserve State emergency Preparedness liaison officer for oklahoma. in this position he will coordinate Army support with FeMA, the national Guard and state and local emergency officials.

william monagle (’86 MS Zoology, ’81 bA Zoology) is a limnologist and the executive director of the Cobbossee Watershed District in Winthrop, Maine. he is also the president of the Maine volunteer lake Monitoring Program board of Directors. the Maine Congress of lake Associations honored him with its Personal Achievement Award for outstanding Contributions to the Protection and enhancement of Maine’s lakes and Ponds in 2007.

diane Knight (’88 MS Curriculum & instruction) succeeded Judge Michael Merz as head of the U.S. Conference of Catholic bishops (USCCb) national Review board following the bishops’ spring meeting in June.

robert c. owen (’88 bbA MiS & industrial Relations) completed his doctorate in Public Administration from the University of la verne (Calif.) in December 2008.

michael owens (’89 MliS) published his newest book, “yes, i Am, Who i Am: A new Philosophy of black identity” (yorkshire

Publishing Group).

Kelly womer (’89 Journalism & Mass Communication), APR, AbC, has joined linhart Public Relations, a Denver-based

national public relations and corporate communications counseling firm, as a vice president. She previously worked as an independent public relations consultant based in Chicago. She is a 1995 recipient of a UWM Alumni Association GolD award.

1990sthe rev. claire a. (warren) beutler-cruise (’90 bA Women’s Studies) was granted Privilege of Call to the United Church of Christ, Southeast Association, and is serving as interim minister at First Congregational UCC in hartland, Wis.

andrew Narrai (’90 bA) was elected national treasurer of the American Advertising Federation (AAF) by the organization’s board of directors. narrai is currently the vice president of client services and a partner at Scheibel halaska, a marketing communications firm headquartered in Milwaukee.

elizabeth (levandoski) roberts (’90 bA Mass Communication) and husband John Roberts ii recently published

their second book, “Freeing tibet: 50 years of Struggle, Resilience and hope” (AMACoM).

Sasho Cirovski stood near midfield, wearing dark sweat pants and a large, black coat over his red University of Maryland jacket.

The Maryland men’s soccer coach gave instructions to one of his players during a 2-0 win over George Mason University in the early rounds of the 2008 NCAA soccer tournament on a chilly night in College Park, Md.

A few days later, on a 76-degree day in suburban Dallas, Cirovski was again on the sidelines as the Terrapins beat Atlantic Coast Conference rival North Carolina 1-0 to claim the national title in Division I men’s soccer.

Maryland has now made 14 trips to the NCAA tourney in the past 16 years and has won the title twice in the past four seasons.

“The first one was a sense of relief,” Cirovski said. “We had been in [the Final Four] several times. The one in 2005 was an incredible amount of relief. This one [in 2008] was a tremendous sense of accom-plishment. We were not the team expected to win. We set a school record for most wins in a row.”

Cirovski said he has changed during his tenure at Maryland.“My goal has always been to be a teacher. Maybe earlier in my

career I didn’t have the patience on the sidelines,” he said. “What people may have seen was an overly passionate and intense coach. Maybe they didn’t see the thoughtfulness. I think I have matured.

“There is a saying: ‘The reward for good work is more work.’ It has been pretty hectic,” added Cirovski, who noted that three players left school early for the pro ranks from his 2008 title team.

One constant during that run has been Cirovski, who moved with his parents from Macedonia to Ontario at the age of 8. “I remember being extremely excited to come to America.

We didn’t know it was Canada. We were going to America as far as we were concerned,” he recalled.

PanTher daysCirovski enrolled at UWM and played four years of soccer for

the Panthers (1981-84). He graduated in 1985 with a BBA, then went on to receive his MBA in 1989.

“My four years at UWM were incredibly important, formative years in my self-development and finding out my true passion,

which turned out to be coaching,” he said. “Through the years I found out I could pursue coaching as a profession.

“The relationships I established at UWM have been some of the most important in my life,” he added. “We didn’t make the tourney any of the four years I was there, but we were competitive. We had a bunch of good people on the team. There were some very good learning moments.”

A key moment for Cirovski came in his junior year when he was a player repre-sentative from the men’s soccer team on a committee to find a new head coach for the

Panthers. The group went after Bob Gansler, one of the candi-dates. “Thankfully we got him,” Cirovski said. (Gansler coached the Panthers from 1984 to 1988.)

That move paid off in more ways than Cirovski would realize at the time. “When Bob came in the spring of my junior year I immediately made him my mentor,” Cirovski noted. “I just gravi-tated to him and I became like a sponge. He was a consummate teacher. That relationship was very special. I felt like I was getting a master’s in coaching.”

Cirovski was an assistant coach under Gansler, a Hungarian-American who was born in Hungary and has since coached in

UWM grad BUilds a soCCer dynasty Former PanTher cirovski has won Two naTional TiTles aT maryland

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Major League Soccer, and helped the Panthers to their first NCAA appearance in more than a decade.

a Passion for College soCCerCirovski then got his first head job at the University of

Hartford and in 1991 led the team to a record of 13-6-3, a league title and a berth in the second round of the NCAA playoffs. Hartford, in the second season under Cirovski, again won the league title and advanced to the NCAA field.

Cirovski was named the Maryland head coach prior to the 1993 season. Taking over a team that was 5-12 in 1992, Cirvoski posted a record of 3-14-1 in his first season in College Park. It would be his last losing record as the head of the Terps.

“The Maryland soccer program and the environment Sasho has created there is by far the best in college soccer,” former player Maurice Edu said in the 2008 media guide. “It was the perfect step and platform for me and I owe a great deal of my development to Sasho, the coaching staff and the University.”

“Sasho has not only a vision and a passion to improve and promote col-lege soccer, but he has the knowledge and dedication to pursue new ideas,” said University of North Caro-lina Head Coach Elmar Bolowich, whose team lost to Maryland in the 2008 title match. “His enthu-siasm for our sport is infectious and it will unite Division I college coaches to pursue our objectives and achieve them.”

Cirovski has taken some of the lessons he learned under Gansler to build one of the top programs in the nation at Maryland. The Terps were 23-3 in 2008.

“From the leadership of the seniors with the huge effort from the junior class and sophomores and freshmen, this has been the most balanced team I have ever had,” Cirovski told reporters after the win over UNC. “This team has set the gold standard with the most wins ever, the longest winning streak and the most shutouts.”

Cirovski is married to the former Shannon Higgins, a standout at UNC who was inducted into the National Soccer Hall of Fame in 2002. The couple has three daughters and all of them play soccer.

The UWM grad is proud of how college soccer has grown, and satisfied with the family atmosphere he has built with the Terps. Cirovski has attended many weddings of his former players, many of whom are now pro players.

“It is nice and rewarding. Kids that come here with dreams, you see the twinkle in their eye,” he said.

Editor’s note: David Driver is a freelance writer in Maryland and a frequent contributor to the magazine. He can be reached through his Website at davidsdriver.com.

MilWaUkee ChaMBer theatre, UWM teaM Up on ‘piCniC’

alumni sPecials Planned

Milwaukee Chamber Theatre’s presentation of “Picnic,” Oct. 15-Nov. 1, is a joint venture with UWM’s Peck School of the Arts Department of Theatre, featuring the talents of UWM faculty, staff, students and alumni.

William Inge’s 1953 Pulitzer Prize-winning play revolves around a charismatic drifter who disrupts a neighborhood Labor Day picnic – and a family – in a small Kansas town. The play marked Paul Newman’s Broadway debut; in 1955, it was made into a movie starring William Holden and Kim Novak.

“Picnic” will be presented at the Cabot Theatre in the Broadway Theatre Center, 158 N. Broadway in Milwaukee’s Historic Third Ward. Special alumni ticket pricing and a pre-show picnic supper are being planned for Saturday, Oct. 24. Check the UWMAA Website, alumni.uwm.edu, for further information. (Tickets for other performances are available at 414-291-7800 or www.chambertheatre.com.)

“This is an outstanding collaborative effort that takes advantage of each partner’s expertise,” says Wade Hobgood, dean of UWM’s Peck School of the Arts. “The project features at least 14 UWM faculty, staff, students and alumni as actors, designers and production personnel.”

C. Michael Wright, producing artistic director of MCT and director of “Picnic,” describes this multifaceted collaboration as “larger in scope and complexity than any other project of its kind in Milwaukee Chamber Theatre history.”

“Working alongside their instructors in a professional theatre environment creates a unique mentorship experience for the UWM student actors,” says Wright. Those students and their roles are Marques Causey as Bomber, Max Hultquist as Alan, April Paul as Millie and Andrew Edwin Voss as Hal.

Cast members from the UWM Theatre Department are Raeleen McMillion as Mrs. Potts, Jenny Wanasek (’80 BFA Theatre) as Flo, and Associate Professor Bill Watson as Howard.

UWM Assistant Professor Michelle Lopez-Rios is vocal and dialect coach and assistant director. Associate Professor Rick Graham, Louella Powell and Senior Lecturer Steve White provide scenic, costume and lighting designs respectively. Also working on “Picnic” are Assistant Professor Tony Horne as dance choreographer and Adjunct Professor Mark Weinberg as fight choreographer.

Meghan Savagian (’06 BFA Theatre) is serving as properties master for the production. UWM Theatre students will also serve on the crew.

“Picnic” cast members from UWM include (from left) Jenny Wanasek as Flo, the mother of Millie and Madge; April Paul as Millie; and Max Hultquist as Madge’s boyfriend Alan.

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they had “high hopes” when they graduated from uw–milwaukee in 1959, and they returned with many

dreams fulfilled.

members of the uwm class of 1959 adopted “high hopes” as the theme for their 50th reunion celebration

during commencement weekend in may. the academy award-winning song was introduced that year in the

Frank capra comedy “a hole in the head,” with Frank sinatra.

classmates reminisced and renewed old friendships at an evening welcome reception, then enjoyed a luncheon

the following day featuring a talk by J. Val Klump, director of uwm’s great lakes water institute.

a bus tour of campus in the afternoon preceded recognition at the annual uwm alumni association awards

reception. the weekend culminated with a trip to the u.s. cellular arena to lead the class of 2009 at the

afternoon commencement ceremony.

Classnotes

craig brandt (’91 bS Architectual Studies) has been presented with the 2008 Dubin Family young Architect Award from the Chicago chapter of the American institute of Architects. brandt currently is an adjunct architecture professor at UWM.

robert F. Frediani (’91 bS health Care Administration) was recently honored with a biztimes Milwaukee

2008 health Care hero Award. he was singled out for his work as president of iChi inc. (institute for Collaborative health interventions) and president of therapy Plus of Wisconsin llC, both in

Milwaukee. Frediani is a 1997 recipient of the UWM Alumni Association GolD Award and has been a clinical assistant professor with UWM’s College of health Sciences since 2000.

darlene anderson (’92 bS Criminal Justice) has published “My vision” (infinity Publishing), a fictional account of a young woman’s journey to self-discovery.

ralph gola (’92 MlS, ’88 bA trombone Performance) recently joined the UWM Symphonic band. Ralph credits the Peck School of the Arts’ “wonderfully creative and dedicated professors” for helping nourish him and other PSoA students through their great “quality of artistic excellence.”

James h. walther (’92 MliS, ’91 bA Sociology, Political Science) has been appointed publishing adviser to emerald Publishing Group ltd., an international academic publisher of journals in the fields of management, information science and engineering. in 2005, Walther was named a Mover and Shaker by library Journal.

ryan champeau (’93 PhD Urban education) is the 2009 Wisconsin high School Principal of the year. he was named by elizabeth burmaster, former state superintendent of public instruction, and Jim lynch, of the Association of Wisconsin School Administrators. Champeau is principal at Waukesha (Wis.) north high School, and has been an administrator for more than 30 years.

tammy gilpin-ripp (’93 bA Mass Communication) was recently promoted to account director at kW Advertising, a full-service agency specializing in business-to-business and business-to-consumer communications. Gilpin-Ripp has been employed with the brookfield, Wis., company since 2006.

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energy expert terziC reCeives honorary degree

Branko Terzic (’72 BS Engineering), one of the most respected leaders in the energy field today, received an Honorary Doctor of Science in Engineering degree from his alma mater at Spring Commencement ceremonies.

Terzic has played a major role, over many years, in shaping positive and sustainable energy policy both nationally and globally.

With expertise in the intricacies of energy regulation, Terzic has served in a variety of capacities – as a state and federal energy regulator, a utility chief executive officer and a consultant. Today he is a Global and U.S. Regulatory Policy Leader in Energy and Resources for Deloitte Services LP in Washington, D.C.

As a member of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission from 1990 to 1993, Terzic was instrumental in developing federal energy policy that continues to guide today’s natural gas markets. He embraced reform and sought to achieve a new balance between regulation and competition.

“Energy companies highly value his assistance with strategic direction, and policymakers seek his opinion on policy alterna-tives and their potential implications,” said one nominator.

The natural gas policy he helped develop has resulted in higher levels of domestic natural gas production, a dramatic expansion in the national gas pipeline network and more robust competition in wholesale natural gas markets.

More recently, Terzic has played an important role in the development of climate change policy, in the United States and also on an international stage. “In that role Mr. Terzic has advo-cated that the U.S. act on climate change in a manner that strikes a balance between sound environmental and energy policy,” said another nominator.

He is often asked to provide commentary and advice, and has spoken to many media outlets on the topic of energy, including CNBC, CNN, PBS and Fox News.

In his civic life, Terzic is just as committed. In 2008, he was elected to a second two-year term as chairman

of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe’s ad hoc group of experts on cleaner electricity production from coal and other fossil fuels.

Also last year, he was reappointed a member of the National Petroleum Council, the advisory body to the U.S. Secretary of Energy.

He is well known in his profession as a leader in advancing opportunities for women and minorities, and was recognized with an award from the Women’s Council on Energy and Environment at its last annual meeting.

In addition, he was named a UWM Alumni Association Distinguished Alumnus in 1999 and has dedicated untold hours to preserving the history and culture of Serbia.

shoW yoUr panther pride!

A whole family of alums shows its Panther Pride at Singita Boulders Lodge in the Singita Game Reserve in Eastern Mpumalanga, Republic of South Africa. Smiling from the safari car are (from left) Marjorie Krizek (’74 BA English), husband Ron Krizek (’69 BBA), daughter Claudine (Krizek) Paulsen (’00 MBA) and son-in-law Gregory R. Paulsen (’04 MBA).

“We have taken UWM all around the world,” Ron Krizek writes. The photo was taken during an African adventure in January and February of this year.

Where in the World have yoU displayed yoUr panther pride?

Send us a photo showing you, friends or family members who have taken the UWM name to far-flung or interesting parts of the planet. Prizes will be awarded to those whose submissions are used in the magazine. Don’t forget to include a self-addressed, stamped envelope if you want the photo returned.

Mail photos to University Communications and Media Relations, UW–Milwaukee, P.O. Box 413, Milwaukee, WI 53201, or e-mail to namack@uwm.edu. Please include your name, address, degree year(s) and where the photo was taken.

Classnotes

lynda J. Patterson (’93 MS industrial & labor Relations) has been named the new executive

director of the Wisconsin Society of Association executives.

russell Kashian (’94 PhD economics, ’94 MA economics), an associate professor of economics at the University of Wisconsin–Whitewater, has been selected to serve as an associate/production editor for the Journal of Regional Analysis and Policy.

lucien a. beaudry (’97 bbA Accounting) has been named shareholder in the tax and business law

departments of the Milwaukee-based law firm Reinhart boerner van Deuren SC. he is an attorney as well as a licensed certified public accountant.

cynthia buchko (’97 bA Political Science) is a 2009 recipient of the 40 Under 40 Award given by in business and Forté magazines

to individuals who are making a difference in the business world. buchko is a shareholder in the Madison law office of Whyte hirschboeck Dudek S.C., where she concentrates her practice in renewable energy and public utilities law, commercial litigation and administrative law.

James J. chiolino (’97 MPA Public Administration) has been appointed to a two-year term on the

Madison (Wis.) Affirmative Action Commission. Chiolino is an attorney in the Madison offices of Quarles & brady llP, focusing his practice in the labor & employment Group. he previously served as chief in the Wisconsin equal Rights Division’s labor Standards Section for six years and chief in the division’s Civil Rights Section for one year.

Patricia a. hintz (’97 MS Curriculum & instruction), a partner with the Milwaukee-based law firm of Quarles & brady llP, received a Distinguished Service Award from the Milwaukee bar Association for her many years of service to the association as treasurer and secretary.

J. sheppard crumrine (’99 MSW) received the 2008 Shirley Jefferies Award at the national veterans Creative Arts Festival held in Riverside, Calif. the award recognizes Crumrine’s 12 years of contributions to the national committee helping to plan and run the festival, as well as for his ongoing work with veterans at the local level. he lives in Milwaukee.

2000sbarbara J. hofstetter (’00 bbA), CPA, has been promoted to supervisor with Ritzholman CPAs, a Milwaukee-based accounting firm. She is a member of the firm’s tax team.

alejandro lopez (’00 bS Architectural Studies) has been designated a leadership in energy and environmental Design Accredited Professional (leeD-AP) by the United States Green building Council, as an employee of DlA Architects ltd., based in elgin, ill.

amy mattson lauters (’01 MA Mass Communication) has published “More than a Farmer’s Wife: voices of American Farm Women, 1910-1960” (University of Missouri Press). in researching the book, lauters combed a half-century of farming, women’s and mainsteam magazines, and conducted interviews with more than 180 women with farming backgrounds.

missy m. barkelar (’02 Journalism & Mass Communication) has been appointed to the yP impact board of Directors as marketing director. yP impact encourages young professionals to make a positive impact through volunteerism and professional development. barkelar is marketing coordinator for Milwaukee-based Ritzholman CPAs.

matthew Jenkins (’03 MARCh) has won the Preservation league of new york State’s 2009 excellence in historic Preservation Award for his Chapel of the Sisters restoration project. Jenkins is a preservation architect with the new york firm of Cutsogeorge, tooman & Allen Architects.

heather m. webb (’03 MS biological Sciences) is now a registrant in the national Registry of Microbiologists (nRM). on nov. 17, 2008, Webb became certified as a Registered Microbiologist in Consumer Product Quality Assurance Microbiology specializing in Pharmaceutical/Medical Device/Cosmetics.

raymond duncan (’04 bS education) was named teacher of the year by the Metropolitan Milwaukee Alliance of black School educators, whose mission is to enhance and facilitate the education of all students, with an emphasis on those of African descent. Duncan is a special education teacher in Milwaukee Public Schools.

steve sawyer (’04 MSW, ’00 bSW) has co-founded Wisconsin’s first wilderness therapy program,

called new vision Wilderness, specializing in helping at-risk youth populations.

brian t. wilson (’04 taxation & Management, ’99 bbA Accounting), CPA, has been appointed to the yP impact board of Directors as finance director. yP impact encourages young professionals to make a positive impact through volunteerism and professional development. Wilson is a supervisor and member of the tax team at Milwaukee-based Ritzholman CPAs.

thomas stocco (’04 MA Accounting), CPA, has joined Ritzholman CPAs, a Milwaukee-based accounting firm.

andrew lange (’06 bA international Studies) has been chosen as the Rotary District 6270 Ambassadorial Scholar for 2009. lange will use his scholarship to attend the University of Peace in Costa Rica, where he has been admitted to the international law and human Rights Master’s Program.

lauren mcbride (’07 bA Communication) is a marketing coordinator at Sony Music entertainment in new york

City, focusing on album releases of legacy artists across many genres. She credits her UWM internships in nyC and her college experience with helping her land her “dream job.”

Nathaniel a. roth (’08 MS Management, ’00 bA Mass Communication) recently joined the brookfield, Wis., firm of Sitzberger, Widmann & Company S.C. as a staff accountant.

Where would you be today if not for UWM?

What dream did UWM help you achieve?

You can help generations of Panthers reach their dreams by designating a planned gift to the UWM Foundation. For more information, visit us online at

www4.uwm.edu/give_to_uwm/ or contact Jennifer Clearwater in the Office of Development at 414-229-2415 or jenwater@uwm.edu.

Where would you be today if not for UWM?

What dream did UWM help you achieve?

You can help generations of Panthers reach their dreams by designating a planned gift to the UWM Foundation. For more information, visit us online at

www4.uwm.edu/give_to_uwm/ or contact Jennifer Clearwater in the Office of Development at 414-229-2415 or jenwater@uwm.edu.

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