Crusader Connection Winter 2013

WINTER 2013

CRUSADER CONNECTION NEWS FOR ALUMNI AND FRIENDS OF

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EDGEWOOD HIGH SCHOOL OF THE SACRED HEART

Bremers’ Selfless Service Earns the Servant Heart Award

The year was 1964. The first Ford Mustang rolled off the assembly line, the Beatles made their first appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show, and Caryl and Howard Bremer began their affiliation with Edgewood High School. They have been serving the school, along with other organizations that are important to them, ever since.

The Bremers’ volunteerism at EHS began when their daughter Katharine ’68 was a freshman, and Kathy was later joined by William ’70, twins Thomas ’73 and Timothy ’73, and Margaret ’80, followed a generation later by two grandchildren, Daniel ’97 and Jennifer ’00 Sarbacker. During the years their children attended EHS, the Bremers were always willing to pitch in: from Band Board to PTA, Edgefest to bingo, and even installation of the sidewalk on Monroe Street.

Howard served on the Advisory Board from 1971 to 1980, acting as chair in 1973 and 1974, and served as the attorney for the school a number of times; Caryl helped to raise funds by delivering pizza and fruit, and participated in a fundraiser that required EHS volunteers to inventory Prange’s department store, counting everything from pieces of gum to shoes and furniture.

Caryl continues to volunteer at EHS on a full-time basis, coming in every morning, Monday through Friday, year-round. She diligently maintains alumni records and a database with over 13,000 constituent names to a 97% mailing accuracy, an amazing feat.

She continues to manage the many and varied mailings done by EHS each week, handling all of the in-house, “smaller” bulk mailings (some up to 3,000 pieces). In addition, Caryl is one of the resident historians at Edgewood, and her knowledge about members of the community, oraginzational structure and

fundraising activities is exceptional. She is the welcoming face of the school for many different events and gatherings when she serves as a greeter.

Caryl also has found the time to volunteer at her parish, St. Maria Goretti. She was the associate editor of the Gatherings newsletter for 13 years, is a member of the funeral choir, and is active in a number of other ways. She is also a member of the Madison Catholic Woman’s Club, where she has served on the board from 1978 until the present, continues to publish their membership book and has done all of their mailings since 1982. Caryl has received a number of awards in the Madison community, including the EHS Alumni Appreciation Award in 1981, U.S. Representative Scott Klug’s Friend of Education Award in 1996, the Catholic Charities Community Faith in Action Leadership Award in 1999 and an honorary Edgewood High School Diploma in 2008.

Howard is a U.S. Navy veteran who served in World War II. He worked as patent counsel for Procter and Gamble in Cincinnati, Ohio, before returning to Madison with his family to take a job at Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation

(WARF), where he has been employed since 1960, and after 28 years there as patent counsel, continues to maintain an office as a consultant. In addition to his dedication to the Edgewood schools (the children attended Edgewood Campus School as well), Howard has worked diligently for the Madison community in many ways. He has served in the Patent Trademark and Copyright Section of the State Bar of Wisconsin, the Wisconsin Intellectual Property Law Association, and has worked with the American Bar Association, the American Intellectual Property Law Association, the Association of University Technology Managers, the International Advisory Board of Industry and Higher Education, and on the Advisory Commission on Patent Law Reform, all in a variety of roles. He has also presented more than 35 papers at conferences worldwide.

Throughout the years, Howard has volunteered with the Edgewood schools, the Boy Scouts Pack 128, and has done pro bono work for individual inventors and contractors.

He was a solicitor for the American Red Cross, and served on the Advisory Board for the BNA Life Sciences, Law and Industry Report and Industry and Higher Education Journal in the U.K. He received the 1980 Bayh-Dole Award for his work, given by the Association of University Technology Managers (AUTM) and the “Howard W. Bremer Scholarship” named for him allows five people to attend the Annual Meeting of AUTM. He also received the Honorary Recognition Award from the University of Wisconsin-College of Agricultural and Life Sciences in 2000, the Jefferson Medal from the New Jersey Intellectual Property Law Association, and the EHS Alumni Appreciation Award in 1990. Carl Gulbrandsen, the managing director of WARF, said, “Howard’s and Caryl’s impact on the Madison community has been by their example of how to live one’s life, by their constant service to the community and by their willingness to roll up their sleeves and do the work themselves.…Howard has worked at WARF for 51 years. He still comes in each day and contributes. I don’t know that any of us can beat that.”

A Simple Thank You

2 • Edgewood High School of the Sacred Heart

Judd Schemmel, EHS President In the summer 2012 edition of Crusader Connection, I chronicled the work we’ve pursued together over the last eight years and set the stage for new leadership. With my tenure as President soon coming to a close, I can think of no better purpose to this last submission in Crusader Connection than to simply say, “thank you.”

Thank you for believing in the value of a Catholic, Dominican education. High school is a most impressionable time in the lives of young men and women, and the environment within a Catholic, Dominican setting is supportive, well grounded and can have a lasting positive impact.

Thank you for taking an active role in your education and that of your children.

Whether you are an alumna or alumnus of EHS or the parent of a current student or alum, one characteristic that continues to distinguish Edgewood from many other high schools is the level of engagement our

students and parents bring to the high school experience.

I thank the Dominican Sisters of Sinsinawa. For eight years I have taken your lead as we undertook the work of Edgewood High School. We as a high school, and I as a person, are better because of your guidance, wisdom and dedication.

Thanks go to Edgewood’s faculty, staff and Board of Trustees. Your efforts have served this institution exceptionally well and I will be forever grateful for the positive impact you have made on the life of so many.

I thank the students of EHS. Your perspective and enthusiasm is naturally contagious. It’s been a joy to see your growth and it’s been rewarding to know of your success after your days at Edgewood are completed. You breathe life into the hallways and classrooms of Edgewood. In the end, the simple truth is we (faculty, staff, parents, supporters) do what we do for you—and it’s well worth it.

A senior student (who wanted to remain anonymous) decided to make a poster to display in the Library that included the names of everyone in the Edgewood High School community.

She planned it herself and spent a day one weekend to complete the green, red, gold and blue work.

The Burton Hillis quote at the top left says, “The best of all gifts around any Christmas tree—the presence of a happy family all wrapped up in each other.”

The quote down the right side was a sentiment contributed by the student.

Thank you for your personal commitment to the success of EHS. The Edgewood community truly does care about the well being of its high school. I’ve been blessed to bear witness to remarkable acts of generosity of time and resources, all given freely and all given with the singular intent to ensure Edgewood’s continued success.

Thanks go to my wife, Lisa, and son, Sam. There have been many days, nights and weekends when I didn’t see you all that much because I was doing the good work of Edgewood. Thank you for understanding, for supporting this effort and for joining me in helping to move Edgewood forward.

I love you and could not have served in this role without you.

Lastly, thank you, Edgewood. You are a high school, but you are also a community and a home. My time in service to you has been a blessing in my life. Your work matters, it’s important. May you continue with this important work and may we all play a part to keep you strong and vibrant for generations to come.

All hail, Crusaders!

Thanks for saying so!

Hi Mr. Schemmel,

It has been a few years since we have connected but I wanted to share some good news with you. I started law school at Marquette this year! I am continuing to work at the Marquette University Engagement office so I am participating in the evening part-time law program. You have always been supportive of my pursuit of a law degree and I cannot thank you enough for the various conversations we have had. Although the next few years will be challenging as I balance both work and school, I am positive that Marquette Law School is right for me.

I frequently reflect on my experience at Edgewood and I am certain that the blessings in my professional and academic life started with the great experience I had at EHS. Because I work in an alumni engagement office I understand the importance of giving back, so please let me know if there is anything I can do to help support EHS in the future.

All my best, Libby Gard ’06

Special Thanks to the 2011-2012 Four-Front Parents The Four-Front program is a commitment from families to contribute a minimum of $5,000 a year for each year they have a child in attendance at EHS. We thank the families who have participated in the past year. A complete list of parent donors, including new members of the Four-Front program this year, will be published in July.

Daniel A. & Kathy A. De Chant Terry W. Grosenheider & Ave M. Bie David A. ’80 & Amie P. Hackworthy Thomas M. & Kathryn S. Parker Daniel S. & Lisa K. Pickett Jennifer A. (Grantham ’80) & David L. Stein Thomas A. Walker ’75 & Jill M. Dal Santo-Walker ’78

Upcoming Events ENCORE Gathering Sun. Feb. 17, 11:00 a.m.

E Club Gathering Wed. Feb 20, 6:00 p.m.

Memorial Prayer Service Wed. March 6, 7:30 a.m.

Spring Musical Guys & Dolls Thurs.–Sun. March 7–10, Fri.–Sat. 15 & 16 Ebony & Ivory Auction/Social Fri. April 26 Memorial Prayer Service Wed. May 22, 7:30 a.m.

Wilke Golf Outing Fri. June 7

Visit edgewoodhs.org for all the latest “good news” schedules and events, to contact faculty and staff, to make a donation, to leave news about yourself or to update your contact

Trivia Night Is a “Brilliant” Success

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A raft of brain-teasing questions on topics as wide-ranging as weird foods, television dads and world geography left participants scratching their heads for answers as they enjoyed one of Madison’s most wacky costume parties, emceed by guest Elishah Oesch of WKOW-Channel 27.

“Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs,” hosted by parent Jean Mescher, won the best table theme award and the “brainiest team” was the table hosted by Madison-area attendee Richard Chatlosh.

We extend our thanks to our generous sponsors: Associated Bank, Brad & Nicole Smith, the Merfeld Family and the Healy Family for helping us by backing the event. We also thank all those who donated gift cards or prizes to the event. Finally, a thank you goes to all of the judges and parent volunteers who so generously donated their time.

Trivia Night is a great evening to socialize while supporting all students participating in EHS music programs. Pick your team’s costume theme, decorate the table and bring food in keeping with your group. Beverages are provided. We look forward to another entertaining event in 2013 and hope to see you and your team of brainiacs there!

It was “Hi ho, hi ho” versus “Heave ho” and coneheads couldn’t contain enough brains to win the event with celebrities with Sonny, Cher and Elishah Oesch.

ENCORE Brings Benefits for the Arts

In last summer’s Crusader Connection, the inauguration of a new fundraising group dedicated to enhancing the fine arts at EHS was announced. As a result of the tremendous response from generous donors, the members of the ENCORE committee were able to allocate funds to a number of initiatives that Edgewood has not been able to include in recent annual budgets.

Donations received since ENCORE was launched last March totaled $32,500. Of that amount, the committee was able to: • place $10,000 in an interest-earning savings account to be available for future needs.

• dedicate $14,280 toward mechanical improvements for the stage in the Auditorium.

• apply $1,500 to helping sponsor the Young Playwrights program.

• purchase eight art tables and stools for a total of about $2,500.

• buy a Yamaha Clavinova upright piano with dolly (about $3,200) for use in the Auditorium.

Even if you can’t attend, buy a ticket in the Cash or Credit Raffle — $5,000 cash or a $7,500 EHS tuition credit for2013-2014!

For questions about the event, to volunteer, or to donate an item, please contact Barb Kolb at 608.257.1023 x133 or email kolbbar@edgewood.k12.wi.us

Save the date for this casual dress evening of food, drinks, raffles, silent and live auction items, games and musical entertainment by the PianoFondue dueling pianos!

4 • Edgewood High School of the Sacred Heart

Athletes and Entire School Benefit from Renovated Facilities

Since last summer, Edgewood has benefited from three major projects that have meant significant enhancements to the hockey program and to one of the school’s major venues for athletic competition as well as school-wide events and celebrations.

The Wilke Gym underwent a once-in-a-generation renovation through a generous anonymous donation. The family making this gift wanted to have an impact on athletic facilities in addition to providing support for the areas of tuition assistance, technology and annual operating revenue. As a result of their contribution, the gym received new lower level bleachers that open and close automatically. They are made in the school colors and feature aisles so that people can climb more easily and safely into and out of their seating area. The lighting and sound system received major overhauls so that the facility is far more workable as a space for liturgies, graduations, Workers stripped the special events and guest performances. A completely new paint scheme, new sideline gym back to the walls… chairs, new scoreboards and additional storage also enhance its potential while the school’s heritage is more prominent with the inclusion of the school shield, Dominican values and a perpetually-lit crucifix adorning the walls.

The boys’ and girls’ hockey teams both benefited from a new arrangement with UW-Madison which was made possible in part through the generosity of Erik Johnson. Erik was looking for a project that would benefit the Edgewood Hockey program and the University of Wisconsin Athletic …giving it a whole new look and Department. In addition, Erik improved furnishings was hoping to continue to honor the memory of his deceased brother, Lance ’87. The former Badger women’s hockey practice facility at “the Shell” has now become the practice home ice for the Crusader boys. With the move, the boys now have 50% more ice time, a single practice location and access to the rink at better hours. Engberg Above: Amy (Didier ’88) and Erik Johnson with Anderson Design Partnership architect Paul Cuta ’83 and construction company owner Joe their daughters in front of the commemorative Daniels ’68, assisted by painter Tim Wiese and Dave D’Orazio of Capitol City Cleaning and display for Erik’s brother, Lance.

Supply, oversaw and carried out the remodeling of the former UW women’s hockey quarters to include a new locker room, coaches’ locker room, a team room and and equipment room, Below: the rink at UW’s LaBahn center is now all designed to reflect the EHS colors and mascot. home ice for the Crusaders.

In addition, the Crusaders now play their home games on the Lance Johnson Memorial Rink in the newly constructed LaBahn Arena with seating for 2,200 spectators. The facility—where the Badger women now both practice and compete, and the men practice— is unlike that used by any other high school hockey team in the state. The negotiations for space usage and renovation were two years in the making and resulted in a 10-year agreement with the option to renew for an additional 10 years.

Edgewood’s girls’ hockey, currently a collaborative team with other schools, was able to move into the recently renovated Madison Ice Arena space vacated by the Edgewood boys.

Noteworthy

• All of the 156 graduates in the class of 2012 took the ACT and earned the school a composite score of 25.3.

• 141 students took 266 AP Exams last spring and 82% of the text results were high enough to qualify for college credit

• The set for last spring’s musical, West Side Story, was awarded third place in the ScenoGraphics competition • Edgewood recycled 2056 batteries last year, keeping dangerous chemicals out of local landfills.

No Shave November — members of the faculty and staff grew their facial hair for “No Shave November,” a custom that began in 2003 in Australia as “Movember” but has caught on elsewhere (though Wisconsin hunters seem to already have practised the ritual annually!).

Though largely a fun seasonal display of masculinity, it now has also been dedicated in the U.S. to the cause of raising awareness about prostate and testicular cancer.

Living the Mission Award Recipients

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At a brunch in October, Edgewood High School recognized donors and presented its annual awards in a range of categories, honoring alumni and friends of the school who have exemplified the mission of Edgewood over the years or made exceptional contributions in their fields. The year’s Servant Heart Award went to Caryl and Howard Bremer (see story on page 1). Abridged bios of the other recipients and inductees appear below. For more complete biographies, visit edgewoodhs.org/alumni/services/awards.

JOHN F. MCCLURE Alumni Appreciation Award When John McClure and his wife, Sandy, moved to Madison from Milwaukee in the 1980s, they decided on EHS for their children, Scot ’86, Kristen ’89 and Tim ’91.

“During our kids’ years in school, Edgewood was like family. Like all parents, we were so involved. It was like a breath of fresh air…finding so many friendly faces—both staff and other parents. I guess that is why I have stayed involved for 20-plus years after my youngest graduated.”

John continued to serve as an advisor, a consultant and a committed volunteer, most recently as a member of the EHS Endowment Committee, a position he has held since 1990. He was also a member of the President’s Advisory Board, the precursor to the Board of Trustees, serving as Chair in the late 1980s. In addition to his volunteer work at Edgewood, John has served on the Board of Visitors for the Waisman Center, as a board member for the Boy Scouts, was a member of the Madison Civic Center Foundation Board, and currently serves as the chair of the Finance Council at St. Maria Goretti Parish.

John is retired from Madison Investment Advisors, where he served as the Managing Director from 1987 to 2011. He was previously a Senior Vice President at First Wisconsin.

PATRICK S. SWEENEY ’73 Mazzuchelli Award for Service to Christian Education The Sweeney family has a long tradition of involvement with EHS and when Patrick, who is an attorney, realized that it was “his time” to serve Edgewood he agreed to become a member of the Business & Finance Committee, and served on it for a year before joining the Board of Trustees in 2005. While a Board member, he was on the Presidential Search Interview Committee and eventually served as Board chair from 2009 to 2011. In addition, he was a founding member of the E Club that supports the Crusader atheletic program, and he has offered his services as legal counsel.

Together with other Board members and the administration he helped forge a mission-based business model that helped stabilize the school’s financial status and began a planning process for its long-term viability. Under his recent chairmanship the school has renovated the oldest classrooms, remodeled the Commons and added technology and security upgrades throughout the building. Over the past couple

years, new athletic facility arrangements have been made, including the shared (with Middleton) Otto Breitenbach Stadium for football and access to a spectacular ice rink at UW-Madison for hockey. He also helped in the negotiations to untangle the complex structure of campus governance so that all three Edgewood schools now operate as distinct corporate entities.

Formerly with Sweeney & Sweeney, S.C., Patrick now works at Sweeney Legal Group, S.C. “To this day I have clients with whom I graduated, or who have graduated from EHS since I was there. There’s an instant additional sense of comfort and ease that is added by our shared heritage.”

He advises others, “Get involved! Your participation is important and what you learn is enlightening, humbling and rewarding. The experience is tremendous.”

JOANNE M. DISCH ’64 Dominican Award for Service to Humanity Joanne’s long and successful career has led to her current position as a clinical professor at the University of Minnesota School of Nursing, where she serves as the co-operative unit chair in Population Health and Systems, Systems, Infomatics and Policy. She has authored or co-authored 120 different works, from abstracts and editorials to chapters, articles, and books since 1978.

In addition, Joanne has presented at over 350 different conferences, forums and meetings since 1981. She has also had many media appearances, citations and interviews, along with several different educational modules.

Joanne’s credits include membership on, among others: the Aurora Health Care Board of Directors, where she serves or has served on the Governance Committee, Finance Committee, Capital Committee, IT Task Force and Pension Plan Task Force; the Board of the National Center for Healthcare Leadership; Board of Visitors for the University of Wisconsin School of Nursing; the National Board of Directors for AARP, where she served as the Board chair, 2006-2008; the American Academy of Nursing, of which she is the current president and has been a member since 1991; and the National Board of Directors for the American Association of Critical Care Nurses, of which she is currently a member and served as the president from 1982-1983.

Highlights of Joanne’s numerous awards include the Visionary Leader Award, given at the 60th Anniversary Celebration of the University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Nursing; Outstanding Alumna, the University of Wisconsin School of Nursing, as well as Distinguished Alumna, University of Wisconsin Alumni Association; President’s Award, the American Academy of Nursing; and Distinguished Alumna, University of Alabama in Birmingham, School of Nursing.

6 • Edgewood High School of the Sacred Heart LYLE A. & MARIE M. POOLE (posthumous), GREGORY L. ’63 AND GEOFFREY C. ’67 POOLE EAA Athletic Hall of Fame Lyle and Marie Poole felt very strongly that sports were important to high school students, and during the ten years that their children were students they did everything they could to ensure the success of the athletic program. This devotion to sports was passed on to their three children, Gary ’61, Greg ’63 and Geoff ’67.

Along with owning several businesses in the Madison area, including Poole’s Cuba Club, Poole’s Northgate and Northgate Lanes, the Pooles were very involved in restaurateur organizations, including the National and Wisconsin Restaurant Associations, and to the Elks Club, the Mendota Club and the Westside Businessmen’s Club. They were the first to receive the Roy Award, in 1972, for Restaurateur of the Year and Poole’s Cuba Club was voted one of “100 Best FamilyOwned Restaurants in the United States.”

As members of the Edgewood Athletic Association, no job was too big or too small for the Pooles—whether it was raising funds for the different school sports, washing baseball uniforms between tournament games or feeding players at the Cuba Club. In addition, they were involved with other sports-related organizations in the Madison area, sponsoring numerous amateur teams for all ages in many different ways.

Their biggest priority though was sitting in the bleachers, watching football or baseball, and cheering on their favorite athletes, their sons, two of whom were also inducted this year. Eldest son Gary was a major fan of his younger brothers, too, and accepted the award on behalf of his parents.

Gregory Poole ’63 played both football and baseball at EHS. In 1962, he was named All-City Quarterback, heading an Edgewood team that tallied a 9-0 season record. As a member of the All-City team, he shared in another football win. As a baseball player, he was named All-City Shortstop on a team that finished 18-2 and 2nd Place at WISSA State.

Greg went on to play baseball for UW-Whitewater while earning his degree, and won letters in both 1967 and 1968. He continued to play both football and fastpitch softball throughout the 1970s and 1980s, winning numerous city and state titles, and even holds a touch football record winning streak of 38-0. He competed nationally and internationally, with 2nd and 5th Place finishes at the Amateur Softball Association of America Nationals; two 3rd Place finishes in the International Softball Congress World Tournament; and a 5th Place finish in the National Touch Football Tournament.

Greg also shared his love for fastpitch as the softball commissioner of the Madison School Community Recreation Department, 1971–1979, and as organizer of the Madison Invitational Softball Tournament, 1972–1978. He attracted top teams from eight states to the tourney and used the proceeds for major park improvements. At EHS he served as the both assistant varsity football coach and assistant varsity baseball coach, 1988–1991. In 1992 and 1993 he was the assistant varsity baseball coach at Monona Grove High School and in 1997–2000 he was the assistant varsity football coach at Verona High School. Greg is now retired from G.L.P., Inc. of Monona, Wisconsin.

Geoffrey Poole ’67 followed his older brothers Gary ’61 and Greg ’63 into sports. In Geoff ’s senior year he was named the First Team All-City Quarterback by the Wisconsin State Journal, Capital Times and Madison Shrine Club. In addition, he was the First Team All-Area Quarterback for both Capital Times and Channel 15 and earned honorable mention as All-State Quarterback. The 1966 Crusader football team, ranked 2nd in the State the first year that public and

Gary Poole ’61, Greg Poole ’63, Callie Zwettler Meiller ’01 and Geoff Poole ’67. private schools were ranked together, holds the school record for points scored in an eight-game season. Geoff ’s contributions included completing 66% of his passes for a total of 1,549 passing yards with 23 touchdown passes, and 173 yards rushing with two touchdown runs, all culminating in being named team MVP. In baseball Geoff was a three-year starter at shortstop and made All-City and All-Tournament State Team his senior year. He led all Madison high school baseball players in home runs and RBIs his senior year. The Crusader baseball team finished second in the State tournament his sophomore year and won the State tourney in both his junior and senior years.

Over the years since, Geoff has volunteered for many different athletic teams, acting as a youth hockey coach for 10 years, a youth Little League coach for 10 years and serving alongside his brother, Greg, at the Madison Invitational Softball Tournament, 1972–1978.

Geoff also continued to play amateur sports. He was a quarterback in Madison Recreation Department touch football, 1967–1977, winning league and city titles from 1972 to 1977. His team won the state tournament in 1976 and finished second in both 1975 and 1977.

He also played fastpitch softball as shortstop, 1969–1989. That team won league or city championships (or both) from 1971 to 1980, and Geoff hit a game-winning home run for the team to take the city championship, 1-0, in 1971.

In addition, Geoff has been involved in the restaurant business, and is currently the owner of the family restaurant, Pooley’s.

CALLIE J. ZWETTLER MEILLER ’01 EAA Athletic Hall of Fame Callie Zwettler Meiller ’01, as the oldest child of EHS athletic director Chris Zwettler and his wife, Bernie, led the way onto the fields and courts for her siblings: Eliza ’04, Alex ’07 and Jack ’12. She eventually made her way to the sidelines as a coach on both the volleyball and basketball courts.

Callie played volleyball, basketball and softball at EHS. She was named to the Madison All-City Volleyball Team and was 1st Team All-Conference during the 1999-2000 season. She was also honored as the City Player of the Year and Hitter of the Year, and made 3rd Team All-State. In 2001 she was named to 1st Team All-Conference in both Basketball and Softball, and was awarded the WSAW award and the James D. Farley ’44 Memorial Scholarship. In addition, she served as a Summer at the Edge sports camp counselor from 2000 to 2004, and again from 2008 to 2010.

At the University of Minnesota–Duluth, Callie played on the volleyball team while earning a degree in early childhood studies. Her list of accomplishments and awards for the UMD Volleyball Team

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were many. She was named to the 1st Team All-Conference Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference from 2001 to 2003; 2nd Team AllAmerican Volleyball Player; 1st Team All-North Central Region Team and Player of the Year in the NSIC in 2003. In 2004 she was named 1st Team All-Conference, 1st Team All-American Volleyball Player, AVCA All-North Central Region Team, Daktronics All- Region 1st Team Outside Hitter, Player of the Year in NCC, Elite 8 AllTournament Team, with a Final Four Appearance, Academic AllDistrict Team and Academic All-NCC Team.

Callie has taught at a number of K-8 schools and is currently teaching kindergarten at St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Elementary in Oshkosh. In 2011 she received her MS in educational leadership from the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh, along with other teaching certifications and licenses. She continues to stay involved in sports—as an assistant at UW-Oshkosh, head coach at both New London and Oshkosh North, assistant coach for the Freshman Girls Basketball team at Oshkosh West, and currently as the varsity assistant at Lourdes High School. Callie and her husband James also keep busy running after their children, Tyson and Robin, and attending Edgewood sporting events with family members whenever possible.

CHRISTOPHER C. ’82 (posthumous), KEVIN P. ’84 AND JOHN P. ’88 FARLEY Fine Arts Hall of Fame The Farley family home was a comedy-rich environment, one in which Christopher ’82, Kevin ’84 and John ’88 were able to nurture and develop their comedic talents amid their parents, Thomas ’53 and Mary Anne, and siblings, Barbara ’78 and Thomas Jr. ’80. After earning their college degrees, the three youngest brothers followed a career paths into the field of comedic entertainment.

Chris began performing at Second City Theater Group in Chicago where he was put on the Main Stage in just a few short months, a rare occurrence. He was quickly chosen as a cast member on the longrunning Saturday Night Live and spent five years making the entire world laugh. He went on to star in a number of movies including Tommy Boy (1995), Black Sheep (1996), Beverly Hills Ninja (1997) and Almost Heroes (1998) before his death in 1997.

Kevin also established himself as a comedic presence, both on the big screen and on television, in the fields of acting, writing, directing and producing. He, too, began his entertainment career at the famed Second City. He then relocated to Los Angeles and also had roles in the films Tommy Boy (1995) and Black Sheep (1996). He garnered TIMOTHY P. DOMACK ’95 rave reviews starring as Doug Linus on the MTV sitcom 2gether Fine Arts Hall of Fame (2000-2001) and went on Timothy Domack ’95 has been performing and to appear in numerous working in theatre since about age eight when he TV series programs such helped his mom, Ruth (“Chief ”), work on technical as That ’70s Show, Third crews for the Edgefest Follies. This early introduction Rock from the Sun, Joey, to theatre fed his passion for the arts, and he began Just Shoot Me, Curb Your performing on stage with Children’s Theatre of Enthusiasm and many Madison. At EHS, he was involved in drama and he more. Not surprisingly, continued his acting and performing on stage. when Kevin began to Tim received a BFA in Theatre from the focus on feature films, the University of Central Florida. While a student, he emphasis was exclusively performed in multiple shows, and worked on comedy. He appeared continuously in the scene shop building sets and in the Adam Sandler props for every show. In his junior year he interned in animated comedy Eight the prop shop at GoodSpeed Opera House and as a Crazy Nights (2002), The senior he was a casting intern with the same company.

Waterboy (1998), Dirty Tim Domack ’95, John Farley ’88 and Kevin Farley ’84.

After college, Tim began building television Work (1998), and the scenery, mainly for news rooms around the country.

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City to pursue his dream of working in technical theatre in the hub of Kevin recently starred in An American Carol (2008), directed by the profession led him to an internship with the Charlotte Wilcox David Zucker, in which he plays a cynical, anti-American Company, where he worked on Jesus Christ Superstar, The Full Monty “Hollywood” filmmaker who wants to abolish the 4th of July holiday. and Ragtime. While interning, he learned the business side of The parody uses the framework of A Christmas Carol and its three professional theater, and eventually took a job at The Juilliard School visiting ghosts to show him the true meaning of America. Soon to be as a prop artisan. For seven years he remained at Juilliard, and released is Kevin’s latest feature film, another comedy that he co-wrote, eventually was promoted to assistant prop shop supervisor, working directed and in which he stars, titled Hollywood and Wine. over summers at stock theatres in Colorado, Utah and Oregon.

Like his brothers, John got his start at Second City. He eventually After meeting his wife, Caroline, and having their first baby, the relocated to California and has appeared in films including Tommy couple decided to return to North Carolina to raise their family, and Boy (with his brothers), David Lynch’s The Straight Story (1999), Joe moved to Raleigh, where two more children were born.

Dirt (2001) and the comedy hit The Benchwarmers (2006). Other Tim taught technical theatre at Riverside High School in Durham credits include television series regulars on CBS’s Arrested Development for more than two years, and received the ILT Teacher of the Year and Curb Your Enthusiasm. John’s involvement in film and television award in 2009. His desire for a shorter commute led him to his includes many more movies and shows—nearly four dozen television current position at Wake Forest-Rolesville High School, where he also and feature film appearances are on his list of credits. He currently teaches technical theatre. He continues to build scenery professionally works in Hollywood writing movies, acting, directing and producing at William Peace University and NC State, as well as building props his own material, often with his brother Kevin. A new movie, on for the Burning Coal Theater Company, and works steadily as a which Kevin and John worked together, is due to be released in stagehand, loading concerts in and out of the PNC Arena and Walnut February. Titled Back in the Saddle, it is a comedic western.

Creek Amphitheatre.

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Visit from an NFL Legend and a “True Friend” to Youth

A giant of a man with hands like buffalo burgers and fingers like knockwurst stands before the Edgewood High School freshman class. Like most guys in Wisconsin during football season, he’s wearing a Green Bay Packers jersey.

But this is a Packer jersey—his Packer jersey, #76. This is Mike McCoy, the #2 NFL draft pick, after Terry Bradshaw, in 1970, the year he graduated from Notre Dame University, where he was a Consensus All-American. He went on to be Packers’ Rookie of the Year and to play for The Pack for seven years, plus four more—two each with the Raiders and the Giants.

But McCoy isn’t here to talk about football.

Okay, maybe a little. The defensive tackle shows the kids his NFL Alumni ring, and says, “I wear it whenever I come out to talk to you kids,” which he does often in his work with Mike McCoy Ministries. Then he points to his Notre Dame National Championship ring, and then his Notre Dame class ring and says, “I wear this one more often because it reminds me of my college education, which was so important to me. And this,” he says, pointing to his wedding ring, “is the most important ring of all. I wear it every day. It reminds me of my responsibility to my wife and to God to fulfill my role as a loving, faithful, committed man.”

He warns the students against “the landmines in the field of life.” He shares that during his younger years he stepped on the landmine of alcohol and was heading down that path of destruction until a teammate invited him to the Packer Chapel Program.

In a vivid way, McCoy encouraged the students to choose friends like the one who helped get him back on track. He called a student named Maia to the stage, blindfolded her and asked her to walk through a maze of chairs, all the while giving her the wrong directions. But Maia had a secret weapon.

McCoy had given a microphone to her best friend, who, whenever she heard McCoy misleading Maia, called out the right directions.

“This is how we make it through the landmines, by choosing our friends wisely.”

Mike McCoy speaks primarily in Catholic schools and has also been a speaker for the National Catholic Educators Convention, Catholic Men’s Rallies, Bill Glass Ministries in prisons, and to parents and coaches through the Notre Dame “Play Like a Champion” program. Our thanks to his NDU teammate Tim Sweeney ’66, for bringing him to Edgewood.

A Rare Accomplishment

In more than a century, fewer than 200 young men, and now only three from Wisconsin, have achieved the goal of earning every one of the 133 merit badges awarded by the Boy Scouts (some discontinued), a feat 16-year-old EHS sophomore Colin Paiva accomplished this fall. He was featured in a November 20, 2012 Wisconsin State Journal article by Nico Savidge He earned the badges for work in fields as varied as wilderness survival and personal finance, bugling and water skiing. They represent the culmination of a years-long effort that began when he joined Cub Scouts in the first grade and Boy Scouts in the fourth. He earned his first merit badge for coin collecting and set the goal of earning 21 to become an Eagle Scout. Once he did that, he set his sights on getting 100. And after that he figured he might as well get them all. Paiva said. “I think it really just evolved after I saw how I could really push myself to learn new things.”

Badges have a range of difficulty. They also require a lot of help from others, for which Paiva is grateful. “There’s just so much work that went into this that wasn’t mine,” Paiva said. “Although it’s my name on it, there are so many other people who have a really important role.”

The last badge he had to earn was search and rescue, for which he learned wilderness first aid, mastered two kinds of GPS location techniques and took an online course from the Federal Emergency Management Agency. To cap it off his troop went to a state park where a Scout got “lost” for half an hour, then launched a systematic search to find him.

Colin also enjoys a range of sports, broadcasting on amateur radio W9CLN and has accumulated more than 500 community service hours in his six years of Scouting.

Negotiating the Twists and Turns

In another Scout-related story on campus, EHS senior, Andrew Ibach organized a crew, including fellow Boy Scouts, to help him create a prayer labyrinth in the grassy area at the back of the building beneath the chapel balcony as his Eagle Scout project.

The labyrinth, which will offer a place for meditation, contemplation and prayer, was dedicated and blessed after the Back-to-School Liturgy.

The new Edgewood Parent Community garden committee is spearheading efforts to beautify the campus grounds and will be enhancing the garden spaces adjacent to the labyrinth and grottoes on campus as well.

Mission is what we do. Values are how we do it.

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Clear and direct in its description, the title of this article carries deep implications for the oversight and operation of Edgewood High School of the Sacred Heart. It also speaks to the broader mission of the Dominican Sisters of Sinsinawa who sponsor the school, including Sister Maggie Hopkins, OP, who currently serves on the Board of Trustees, and has participated with that group in some capacity for two decades.

Sister Maggie speaks easily and expansively on her congregation’s Dominican heritage and Edgewood’s role as a place “where all are invited to live the values.” She also emphasizes that “the tradition of cyclical study, prayer, action and reflection is helpful if it is being ‘lived in the now.’”

“We are called to meet the needs of the times, to look outwards and see what is required today, whether that is at the level of personal relationships, the school, the broader community, society or the world. How are we showing compassion in the hallways? How is Edgewood preparing itself to be a welcoming home for those from diverse backgrounds and across social strata? How do we serve those in need in our neighborhood? How are we giving students the preparation to be ethical leaders?” She relates this to the values of community and partnership.

“Community is the embrace, the support of those with whom we associate. It rejuvenates us, gives us the energy and encouragement we need to undertake our ministry. Partnership asks ‘who else do we need to get all the perspectives and gifts we require?’ It is the outreach that invites others to participate so that all can benefit from the effort.”

Of her time on the Board of Trustees, Sister Maggie notes the continuing growth among its members in their understanding of Edgewood as a Catholic school in the Dominican tradition and their ability to instill the Dominican values and practices

Sister Maggie Hopkins, OP into planning and decision-making. “At the core of the Board’s work is the mission of the school. They take to heart their responsibility to ask the right questions, bring in the right people, guide, provide resources and generally support the advancement of the school.” She uses the metaphor of a cathedral. “I credit much of the effectiveness of today’s Board to the dedication of its early members. They built a strong foundation and have made an effort to ensure that new members have been inculcated with the ‘Dominican way’ of doing things. Those who start the process know they will likely never see its completion, but they instill successive generations—often members of the same families—with the skills and values and desire to create something greater than themselves.”

Sister Maggie notes, though, that the Board isn’t all about “serious matters.” She says, “We have a lot of fun. We enjoy one another and engage in one another’s lives.

It is a very caring group. We are there for one another for celebrations and for the challenging periods.”

That sense of community extends to all of Edgewood. From the FIT program that helps bring together freshmen from multiple schools and school districts, to the faculty and staff to the parents, people appreciate one another. “Faculty and staff recognize that every student has at least one particular talent, and they work to draw that out. The mission to provide a ‘rigorous academic curriculum’ means that students learn they can be stretched further, that they can do more than they may have thought, that they can be better. It means that in the search for truth, there is always more to be discovered or revealed. It means that one recognizes ‘I have a responsibility to share my gifts with others in working to create a better place, a more just society.’

Sister Maggie continues, “The students see this modeled every day through their parents and the faculty and staff. They put it into practice in working with one another and in the community. Edgewood is so enriched by these people who are dedicated to the school.

They ensure that Edgewood continues to be both an exciting educational environment and a faith-based community that promotes respect for other faith traditions.”

She notes that Edgewood is an important contribution to the Madison community in many ways, not the least of which is the quality of its alumni. “When you look at the caliber of student that Edgewood graduates, you have to appreciate how the educational foundation they receive sets them in the right direction and opens an incredible range of choice and scholarship opportunities as they go on to college. And then a majority of them come back to the Madison area after college.

So in a very real way, Edgewood is educating the city’s future leaders, the people who will be doctors, business owners, lawyers, teachers, professionals in all fields, foundation heads and promoters of social causes. Wherever you turn, you find a Crusader connection.”

75 Years Later, Friendships Remain Strong

Because several members of the EHS Class of 1937 have become residents of Coventry Village Retirement Community on Madison’s west side, Bernice Synon Hughes decided to take her 93rd birthday to them and also invited a few other alumni to attend. Her daughter, Jane Hughes Roemer ’66, is director of sales and marketing at Coventry and made the arrangements.

Present at the party were classmates Margaret O’Connell Fauerbach, Kathleen Cerutti, and Mary Frances Cieciorka, as well as Gerald Dunn’s wife, Ruth, and Bob Meuer’s wife, Midge.

In addition, relatives Margaret O’Brien, OP, Charles Larkin ’42, James ’62 and Mary (Miller ’65) Neuhauser, Frances Lacy ’63, David Hughes ’68, Carol (Hughes ’71) and Tom Norris as well as several others with family or Edgewood ties were in attendance.

Bernice says, “Thanks go to my family and friends. I will remember my 93rd birthday as one of the best I’ve had. I was especially happy to have my classmates from Edgewood together one more time.

Seeds of Hope

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Did you ever wish to make a real difference in helping the poor but thought you had to win the lottery to do it? Kim Mistretta Tews ’82 thought so. Tews and her husband, Randy, were successful realtors in the Madison area with two beautiful daughters, “an enormous, ridiculous house, the SUVs, the whole thing.” Even with all that, they discovered themselves feeling pretty empty. “I felt like a little rat on a wheel,” summarizes Kim. It was a trip to Mexico—for a rest from that wheel—where a change began for the Tews family. In a tourist van with other travelers passing the time, the question was asked, “What would you do if you won the lottery?” There were many answers rolling around the van. Tews’ answer was, “Help the poor.” One of the riders responded, “You don’t have to win the lottery to do that.”

And, as they say, the rest is history—very recent history in this case, and history in the making. The family began by taking a service trip with Public Health International and funding one well in a village in Ecuador, where Kim “fell in love with the peaceful gratitude of the culture and their joyfulness, even though they had so little.”

By 2007, the Tewses, with the help of family and friends, had founded their own non-profit to help starving children in the drought-stricken, southeast portion of Guatemala, near Chiquimula.

Kim explains, “While on a service trip in Guatemala, we were told one third of the children in that part of the country were dying of starvation. We couldn’t believe it, because that wasn’t the case where we were at the time. So we went to see, and it was true. I thought, ‘These beautiful, peaceful people love their children just as much as I love mine.’”

Then she adds, “You just can’t let the children die.“ Fast-forward to 2012: Outreach for World Hope (OWH) an organization the Tewses founded. Through the help of family, friends and local churches, all of whom lend their expertise and ministry in areas of medicine, agriculture, communications, fund-raising and operations, and an evergrowing group of supporters, OWH now 275 families who originally had a child in the end stages of starvation.

OWH identifies severely malnourished children and provides intensive 30-day hospitalized nutritional rehabilitation, while

by Kate Ripple ’81

permanent sponsors are sought. Upon completion of inpatient hospital renourishment and stabilization, the child may return home but remains in the “Life Boat Program” and receives a steady supply of food each month until he or she is chosen by a sponsor (sponsorships are less than $1 per day). The family receives a needs assessment, medical care, social services, vitamins, and clothing or shoes if needed.

Long-term, at-risk families remain sponsored through OWH ministry until the initially starved child reaches the age of 16.

The “Virtual Village Program” ensures that families receive a large month supply of provisions including rice, black beans, corn, vitamin drink, powdered milk, cereal, soup mix, pasta, sugar, oil, and bleach. Family members receive medical care if needed and are treated for worms and parasites on a regular basis to ensure that nourishment is absorbed. Social services and counseling are provided to identify and resolve domestic challenges within the home.

More recently, the organization has begun supplying families with a “kit garden” to provide the proper nutrition over the long term. The kit includes hardy seed varieties, fertilizer and pesticides, as well as avocado and mango trees for crucial folic acid. To help keep plants thriving, there is also a

Kim Tews, who still lives in the Madison area, has written a book called Tears Water the Seeds of Hope, describing her experiences with the Outreach fro World Hope project. “The name of the book comes from my belief that when our hearts are broken over an injustice, God is calling us into action, and the tears we cry water the seeds of hope for change." To learn more about Outreach for World Hope, or order Kim’s book, go to outreachforworldhope.org. simple “bucket drip” irrigation system. In addition, OWH has been expanding a program of providing hens to increase the amount and variety of protien in people’s diets.

The whole community is welcome at the mobile medical clinic provided by OWH, where villagers often begin lining up at 5:00 a.m. to be seen and treated. In cases where patients are too ill for the treatment services a mobile clinic can provide, OWH transports them to the capital, Guatemala City. Through the generosity of many, OWH was even able to bring a very ill young girl to the States for four life-saving surgeries.

While Kim and her family continue to reside in the US and lead trips of teams of volunteers to work near Chiquimula several times a year, the ministry has had a permanent director in Guatemala for a number of years and is currently being run

by James and Joy Bentley, an American missionary couple.

All this from the wish of just one person to make a difference in the world, even though she still hasn’t won the lottery.

Alumni Donations Surpass Scholarship Goal

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James Imhoff III ’93, Alumni Association Council President The members of the donate to the Alumni Scholarship is a Edgewood High School generous way to ensure that young people are Alumni Association are allowed the same benefits and experience of very proud that they have attending EHS. accomplished their goal I encourage you to consider participating of a named, endowed in the Alumni Scholarship – whether through scholarship, and are excited to present that an Annual or Lifetime membership, by giving scholarship to a current EHS student. That a Legacy Gift to a graduating senior, or student must be the child of an Edgewood through a class gift commemorating the Henry E. “Bud” Zander ’45 is pictured alum, a person who embodies and lives the anniversary of your graduation. Each of these in the letter sweater he received in the mail from Dominican values that are so important to the ways will allow us to increase the number of Wayne J. Knipschield ’44. Wayne had school, and one who is a conscientious and scholarships we can offer to our current promised he would will his sweater to Bud and 68 dedicated student. We continue to raise funds students, one of our most important goals as a years later, fulfilled that promise! for that scholarship so that we can assist more group. of our current students with attending EHS, and hope to continue to grow the number that we can help.

One of the ways our fund has grown so Edgewood High School’s yearly phonathon to alumni, parents of quickly is through the generosity of our alumni, and current parents is once again being conducted by our graduates who are celebrating a reunion year. partners in fundraising, J. Milito & Associates. Please give them Each summer and fall, classmates work the courtesy of answering and, if you can, make a pledge toward together to plan events that commemorate the Annual Fund. Your gift will be matched dollar for dollar by their graduation year; in many cases, they $25,000 pledge from an anonymous donor! Funds raised help choose to give to the institution that is so keep an Edgewood education more affordable for all families and provides additional important to them to as a symbol of the need-based tuition assistance for those least able to pay. gratitude they express. Whether the group Thanks go to the donors who gave gifts before the end of the calendar year, many decides to give a gift as a class or an individual in honor or memory of special people in their lives. Notes have been sent to the people contributes separately, all of those gifts commemorated or their families to let them know of your generosity in their name. combined can make a difference. Choosing to

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You’re Welcome To Visit Any Time!

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Tammy Ehrmann, Alumni Director Welcome back! Please join us! Those are the messages we hope to convey to each of our graduates; that they are always invited to come back to Edgewood for a visit, to attend a special event, catch a game or see a musical. There are a plethora of times throughout the year that lend themselves to alumni participation, one of the main goals of the EHSAA. We always have a number of alumni and parents of alumni attend our Living the Mission Dinner in the fall, but did you know that we also encourage you to visit during Trivia Night, Memorial Prayer Services and the All Saints All Souls Memorial Mass, the fall play, a variety of music and choir concerts, a multitude of athletic competitions, the Alumni Basketball Tournament and Social – and that is just during the first semester! The choices are endless, and continue into semester two with Fine Arts Week, the spring musical, the annual Auction and Social, and another round of music, choir performances and athletic events. Whatever your interests, we have a place for you at Edgewood.

In November, some EHS grads participated in Trivia Night, and what a night they had. James Imhoff ’93, Ty Shea ’95, Dave Bauer ’79 and Laura Imhoff Petersen ’89 had a table with their friends, and they won second place in the Table and Costume category with their “A Christmas Story” theme! Ty participate in a friendly game of Heads or Tails and won a new flat screen TV, James dressed up as Santa Claus, they had a lovely “fragile” fishnet-stocking-wearing-lady’s-leg lamp as their centerpiece, and fun was had by all.

Jo Jean Kehl Janus ’54 was in the audience this fall to see Harvey, the EHS production that included Jo Jean’s granddaughter, EHS sophomore Sophie Janus. She was able to take a look at her named auditorium chair, a special way she has commemorated her own time at the school, while enjoying one of EHS’s amazing performances.

Any time you are able to come back to Edgewood, we would love to see you. Take a look at our website, edgewoodhs.org/alumni, follow us on on facebook.com/EdgewoodHS or connect with us via Twitter at twitter.com/EdgewoodHS1881 to keep up with all of the happenings at your alma mater.

Nominate Someone for the Living the Mission Awards

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Musings

The “Other” Women of Edgewood High School

by Dennis McKinley ’63

What came to mind when you read the title of this article? I would be willing to bet your answer reflects your generation at Edgewood. The oldest readers of this publication may well say that the “main” women of Edgewood were the Sinsinawa Dominican Sisters who comprised most, if not all, of the female staff when they were in school, with the “other” women being those few, if any, lay women who may have been on the staff. Those who attended more recently would recognize the lay women as the “main” women, with the Sisters being part of our history and our sponsors.

In either case, there is no doubt that women, be they religious or lay, have been the backbone of Edgewood High School of the Sacred Heart. Yes, there have been and are many men who have also played a significant role, but relax! This article is about the women, and in particular three women, who were in the “bridge” era when Edgewood was transitioning from all Sisters/priests to all lay men and women.

Since 1960, there have been over 360 lay women who have served at Edgewood, and if we go before 1960, I’m sure we could add at least another 10 to 15 women to the list.

Of the women presently serving, 13 are in their 20th or greater year at Edgewood. They are Jan Bauman, Caryl Bremer, Pamela Hanson-Stewart, Kym Husom, Karen Houlihan, Diane Mertens, Karla Meyer, Maureen Moravchik, Ann Nelson, Cathi Shaughnessy, Lora Staveness, Katie Sturm, and Audrey Sweeney Voss ’66.

Between the years of all Sisters and those of all lay women come the transition years during which a number of “other” women served at Edgewood, but three are particularly notable.

Beatrice (Bea) Kane was the first lay woman (and only the second lay person) to serve more than 20 years at Edgewood. She began teaching English here during the early 1950s and continued to dedicate her life to the students of Edgewood until her retirement in 1975. Those of us who had her for Sophomore English were experts at diagramming sentences and authorities on Huckleberry Finn and the other literature in the course. She taught with a warm,

motherly smile, but like any good mother, knew when to be the disciplinarian.

She taught other subjects, but English was her favorite, and I believe Sophomore English was her top choice—at least it seemed that way to this sophomore. One of the legends about Bea is that at one point she threatened to picket the school unless she was finally given a raise. Well, she must have gotten the raise because I had the pleasure of having her as a colleague during my early years of teaching. Bea’s daughter, Kathleen, is an EHS Class of 1964 alumna!

Another significant woman of those years was Latin teacher Mary Stamm.

Until her retirement in 1971, Mary was a devoted educator who believed in a strong foundation in the classics. If you were a student in her class, you knew the Latin language better than Julius Caesar! During her years here, Mary’s four children—Mary Jo ’60, Gary ’63, John ’64 and Michael ’69—attended Edgewood. As with Bea Kane, I also had the pleasure of knowing Mary as a colleague after having had her as a teacher.

Even 1% Matters

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The third woman spent 25 years at Edgewood and is to girls’ sports what Earl Wilke was to boys’ sports.

I’m speaking, of course, of Dorothy Goldsworthy.

Dorothy started her Edgewood career in 1966, and when I began teaching in 1967, she and I shared an office. (Who says athletics and music don’t mix?)

Dorothy was a dedicated teacher and coach, a respected colleague and a worthy role model. Dorothy was at the forefront of the development of interscholastic athletics for girls not just in Madison, but throughout the State of Wisconsin. Her hard work resulted in her being inducted into the Madison Sports Hall of Fame, the EAA Hall of Fame, and receiving the Edgewood Alumni Appreciation Award in 1991. She is the only Edgewood girls’ basketball coach to win a State Championship! In addition to her teaching and coaching duties, Dorothy also served on the Student Discipline Team along with Joel Maturi and Fr. Tom Monahan. Dorothy and her late husband Clarence “Goldie” Goldsworthy could be found at all the Edgewood social events as well as other Edgewood functions.

Today, we take it for granted that, as lay faculty, we have a “support group” of other lay faculty members. During the times these three women served, especially Bea and Mary, there just weren’t many lay faculty members here to be a support group. They were three of the women who taught here towards the beginning and middle of the transition to an all lay faculty. My thanks goes out to them and the “other women” who helped define what it meant to be a lay teacher at Edgewood; that is, being a lay person who can forward the mission of the Sinsinawa Domincan sisters.

My thanks go to Teri Kennedy for assisting with the research for this article.

You may think you don't have enough money to donate and make any kind of impact, but that simply isn’t true. Your gift, no matter the size, can ensure a future for Edgewood High School and influence the lives of students. The majority of American adults give to a charitable organization each year, but even though it is easy to do, very few people use bequests to do that charitable giving. By putting aside a portion of the assets in your will—even just 1%—you can leave a legacy, while making sure your family has the security they may need in the future.

Order The New Edgewood Cookbook!

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Great gift, good food, fond memories Name

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Remember this? It’s the cover from the original EHS cookbook, created in 1977.

A quick 30-some years has passed since EHS created the ever-popular Let’s Eat! It’s time to replace these tattered and foodsplattered pages with Let’s Eat Too!, a musthave for every kitchen! A committee of EHS parents, many of whom are alumnae, is tirelessly working to have the cookbook ready for distribution in summer 2013.

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Inside you’ll find: • 8 sections, filled with 400+ unique and delicious recipes • Favorite throwbacks from the original 1977 Let’s Eat! • Divider pages with facts and stats about what makes EHS a one-of-a-kind school and community experience.

As an alum or friend of EHS, you’ll surely enjoy the new cookbook and want to order copies for your family and friends.

Please place your order while supplies last! All proceeds will go to the worthy cause of need-based student scholarships.

Development News

Submit order form with payment by March 1, 2013 Attn: Let’s Eat Too! Cookbook, Edgewood High School, 2219 Monroe Street, Madison WI 53711 Ordering questions?

Contact Colleen Murphy Penwell at Penwell@tds.net or 608.845.6464

Among the “Alumni Cooks In The Kitchen Committee” working on Let’s Eat Too! are alumnae parents of current EHS students: Mary (Didier) Kuypers ’78, Jenny Grantham Stein ’80, Anne Felten Dorn ’82, Julie Schmelzer Dunn ’85, Liz Grantham Heinrichs ’87, Laura Imhoff Petersen ’89 and Colleen Murphy Penwell ’85.

Mary Link Director of Institutional Advancement

• demonstrated their support through the Parent Pledge program, an intiative that has grown in recent years to its highest rate of participation at 42%.

GRATEFUL

• Grateful for the many volunteers who donate their time and talents to help our efforts flourish.

I am continually grateful for the wonderful support that Edgewood High School of the Sacred Heart has received during these difficult economic times.

• Grateful for alumni and parents of alumni who remember the impact Edgewood had on them and their families and who want to ensure that same experience for current Crusaders by making a gift to the Annual Fund.

• Grateful for current parents who, while they are experiencing first-hand the Edgewood “difference” with their students, have

• Grateful for our Alumni Council and their willingness to serve as “ambassadors” at alumni Basketball Tournaments, at Trivia Night, the upcoming Auction and during the Graduation Mass.

• Grateful for alumni who are celebrating an anniversary year reunion and honor Edgewood with a class gift.

• Grateful for those who remember Edgewood in their estate plans or dedicate gifts in memorium.

Thank you again for all of your continued support.

Birthday Gift to Benefit EHS

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From that beginning developed a woman who was willing to speak for justice, especially to various authority figures, over many years and in many capacities. Not only did she raise seven children, but she went back to college at the UW—at the same time as her oldest child entered the university and when her youngest child started kindergarten—to earn both a B.A. and an M.A. in Political Science. She went on to be the first regular, registered, female lobbyist at the Capitol in Madison.

Among other causes, she worked for her personal passion, the right of parents to choose the school, religious or not, that is best for their child, and that tax money collected for educating the state’s students follow the child to the family’s school of choice. Ripple saw some success with this,

In the course of her work from the 1950s to 1970s, Ripple experienced more than her share of discrimination. For instance, there was no women’s bathroom on the Senate side of the Wisconsin Capitol, and she was refused food service at a downtown men’s club where she, the only female present, was to help lead a meeting launching a new fund raising program for Edgewood High School.

Kate Ripple ’81, Public Relations Coordinator Through it all she kept her dignity, her cool, and her persuasiveness intact.

Because of her admirably independent What would you like for that next history, Mary Anne’s family wanted her to “big” birthday? At her special occasion this have the choice of the parameters of the summer, the family of Mary Anne Ripple scholarship fund. Ripple decided to call it gave her a gift she never expected. All seven the Mary Anne Ripple Freedom of Parent children and spouses and nearly all of her Choice in Education Fund and to focus the 20 grandchildren and extended family were scholarships on girls with financial need who there. She was not sure what to think when are unafraid to “speak up and speak out in EHS president Judd Schemmel showed up the name of justice.” at her party, but she Ripple’s service was about to find out. includes the Advisory Judd explained to Board of Edgewood the nearly 50 relatives High School, where in present that Mary the 1970s she Anne’s children originated and grew the wanted to honor her school’s initial parent service to Catholic pledge program, which education; that her still exists today albeit family had established in somewhat different a scholarship fund form. She served twice in her name at on the pastoral council Edgewood High at Our Lady Queen of School; that they had Peace; in West Bend established the fund so she worked to build St. that as many as six Kate Ripple (second from left) next to her mother, Mary Anne Ripple, Frances Cabrini students with financial surrounded by brothers, sisters and their families.

Church, as Great need each year, in helping to pass laws allowing children to be Books leader at Holy Angels School, as perpetuity, can enjoy a right which Ripple provided bus rides to the nearest Catholic president of the Catholic Women’s Club and has always believed should be the right of school, and to receive special services like Christian Mothers Association; and she each child—to attend a religiously affiliated speech therapy and psychological counseling shone in many other capacities, not the least school if they so choose, in this case (her own children did not personally benefit) of which was as mother and wife of Edgewood High School of the Sacred Heart. at public schools at no cost, rights not unparalleled patience, intelligence, calm, Though it took a while for what this gift enjoyed by Wisconsin Catholic school kindness and quality. meant to sink in, she was thrilled and moved children until her successful efforts in the Her children are Annette ’67 Doyle, Tom to be honored by her family in that late 1960s and early ’70s.

Ripple ’68, Mary ’71 Boyle, Diane ’72 particular way; the moment that her initially Ripple began her work for Catholic Roach, Susanne Ripple ’74 Welke, Helen ’78 puzzled look turned to one of deeply moved education just after the birth of her last child Koberstein and Katie Ripple ’80 (Holaday). awe was priceless. in 1962, with Fr. Virgil Blum’s Citizens for Two sons-in-law are EHS graduates: Michael Though also a traditional mother of Educational Freedom (CEF) out of P. Doyle ’67 and John Roach ’71; another is seven EHS alumni, Ripple at heart was an Marquette University; she had attended 1970s EHS teacher and coach John Boyle; “upstart” from the day she walked out of her Marquette before her marriage. During her and a daughter-in-law is Queen of Peace public school in second grade because the career Ripple helped found and lead Dane School graduate Susan Donahue. Nearly all teacher had made her, a left-hander, write all County Citizens Organization (DCCO), of her grandchildren attended Queen of morning at the blackboard with her right and headed both the Madison Area Peace or Blessed Sacrament schools and half hand. The seven-year old confidently and governmental Education Committee have also attended or attend EHS. calmly walked home and told her father, (MAGEC) of the Madison Chamber of Thank you for everything, Mom. May “Daddy, I’m not going back to that school.”

Commerce and originated and led many students enjoy, in perpetuity, the Though it was the Depression and money Wisconsin Catholic School Parents, at the “freedom of choice in education” afforded was scarce, her father found a way to honor time a part of the Wisconsin Catholic thanks to your example of faith, love, action her wish and, thereafter, Mary Anne was a Conference. for justice, hard work, and generosity!

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Thomas C. Hunt, PhD, delivered the keynote address at a reserch conference on Catholic education held at the University of Notre Dame in July 2012. Later that month, at a Summit on Catholic Education held at the Univeristy of Dayton, he presented on his 2010 book (edited with Timothy Walch), Urban Catholic Education: Tales of Twelve American Cities, that was published by the Alliance for Catholic Education Press at Notre Dame. In August he co-edited, with James Carper, the two-volume work, The Praeger Handbook of Faith-based Schools in the United States, K-12, that was published by ABC-Clio. An official from ABC-Clio referred to this book as the “definitive work,” covering 30 major faith school groups and associations that govern or support them from the Catholic, Jewish, Muslim, Orthodox Christian and Protestant religions. It includes chapters on federal and state supreme court decisions on faith-based schools, discusses government regulations of these schools and their outcomes, as well as examining American faithbased schools and schooling issues from an international perspective.

Bonnie J. Mackesey Moschkau received a Catholic Charities Leadership Award at their 17th Annual Faith in Action Dinner on November 8. A member of Good Shepherd Parish in Madison, she was honored for her work as co-chair of the team for the merger of St. James and St. Joseph Parishes as well as her past service on the Boards of both Edgewood High School and Edgewood College

1960 Carolyn N. Wildrick, OP, celebrated her 50th anniversary as a Dominican sister this past summer.

1962 Michelle (Margaret A.) Germanson, OP, was honored for having served as president of the allgirls Trinity High School in River Forest, Illinois, for 20 years. The school’s board was facing closure of the school in 1992, but decided to try some new initiatives to increase enrollment, including implementing the International Baccalaureate academic program, providing transportation for students who were coming from Chicago and dozens of suburbs, and building up their co-curricular programs. Block scheduling of 85-minute class periods was introduced and continues to be one of the aspects students appreciate most. Now, the school that was on the verge of closing has an enrollment of 534 students and improvements continue to be made.

In 2003, a new athletic facility bearing Sister Michelle’s name was built next to the school and in 2011 a new health center opened at the school.

Visit oakpark.com/News/ Articles/1-10-2012 for the full article by Devin Rose and a photo gallery or search Articles for “Germanson” for an August 28 follow-up article by Tom Holmes.

1965 Kathleen “Kay” Green Woit will be retiring from the Madison Community Foundation (MCF) in July, after 15 years as president. During her tenure, the philanthropic organization’s resources have grown from $42 million to $135 million, including 930 separate funds. Among the projects the MCF has supported are Monona Terrace Convention Center, Olbrich Gardens, Vilas Zoo, Madison Children’s Museum, Overture Center for the Arts and the Sonderegger Science Center on the Edgewood campus.

1968 Dilsha (Anne Marie) Carpenter Happel and her husband, John, live in Denver, Colorado, with their three sons, Patrick, Michael and Vincent.

1970 Kevin J. Kennedy is director and general counsel of the Wisconsin Govenment Accountability Board. In the past year, the Board has had the responsibility for overseeing recall elections, dealing with a presidential election, calls to end same-day voter registration and even dismantling of the agency.

1971 Diane K. Endres Ballweg was profiled in a November 2012 BRAVA Magazine article by Mollie Busby. The article focused on Diane’s

founded and is president of the philanthropic arm of her family’s steel construction business, Endres Manufacturing Company, and serves on numerous boards and committees for service and charitable organizations.

Mary Jo Sweeney holds the endowed post of Dino and Martha DeLaurentis Professor at the University of Southern California’s School of Cinematic Arts. She is also a director, screenwriter, editor and producer.

Douglas G. Zander, an interior designer for 33 years, owns Zander’s Interiors in Madison and won the BRAVA Magazine Reader’s Choice for Interior Designer, 2012. He and his business, which offers both design services and retail items, were spotlighted in the November issue of the magazine in an interview by Kelsey Bewick.

The article also offered “Easy Room Redo” tips.

1973 Timothy J. Bremer has moved to Hastings, Michigan, where he is employed by Hastings Mutual Insurance Company as vice president and CIO for information technology.

1975 Daniel J. Hanrahan has left his position as CEO of Celebrity Cruises and now works as the new CEO of Regis Corporation, headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Regis is the beauty industry’s global leader in beauty salons, hair restoration centers and cosmetology education. The Company owns, franchises or holds ownership interests in approximately 10,000 worldwide locations, including Supercuts, Sassoon Salon, Regis Salons and Hair Club for Men and Women, among others.

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passion for flying, a pursuit she took up at age 45.

Since earning her pilot’s license, she has landed at more than 275 airports around the world, traveling for everything from visiting her three children to going out for an afternoon of golf to flying across the African plains to following the path of Japanese bombers over Hawaii in WWII. Diane initiated an aviation program at EHS in 2000, and continues to share her love of flight with students. She also

Jennifer L. Adams Murphy recently joined the firm of Wessels Sherman as a shareholder where she represents her employer in employment-related issues and litigation. The company has offices in Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota and Wisconsin.

Jennifer and her husband, Daniel, live in Park Ridge, Illinois. They have four children, two of whom are in college.

Carmen M. Brockert Riley works as a supervisor of air traffic controllers in Rockford, Illinois. She lives in Rockton, Illinois with her nine-year-old triplets, a girl and two boys.

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1980 Thomas J. Farley, Jr. has accepted a position at Clarke University in Dubuque, Iowa, as executive director of marketing and communications.

1981 LTC David G. Knapp retired from the U.S. Army after 30 years of service on active duty and in the reserves, in June 2011. His last assignment was with the Center for Army Lessons Learned where he served as the liaison officer to U.S. Army Africa.

He is presently employed as the deputy chief of the Civil Military Operations Division at U.S. Army Africa as an Army civilian in Vicenza, Italy, where he and his family will be stationed until 2014.

He was recently presented with the Joint Civilian Service Achievement Award for his support of Joint Task Force Odyssey Guard during combat operations in Libya. He and his family have called Fryeburg, Maine, home since 1997.

Jacqueline A. Mortell is co-founder and president of Smart Solutions, a Madison-area company specializing in information technology consulting, staffing and training. She was profiled in the Wisconsin State Journal’s Executive Q&A column in September. She had worked for VeriFone and Cap Gemini until starting Smart Solutions in 1996. The company is now a multi-million dollar venture with 140 employees.

1983 Margaret A. Gaddow is living in London, England, with her two daughters. In addition to working as a company director for an investment management company, she does volunteer work at Westminster Almshouses.

1986 Francis J. Rottier, DPM, is a member of the Orthopedics Department at Loyola University Medical Center in Chicago. Frank and his wife, Karen, have two sons, John and William, and live in Chicago.

Gregory J. Scheckler has earned rank as a full professor of art at Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts, part of the Massachusetts University System.

Greg and his family live in Williamstown, MA.

1987 Kristine M. Bunbury Terry, her husband, Joe, and their two children, Samantha and Zachary, live in Baraboo, Wisconsin. Kris works for Bunbury and Associates Realtors.

Kimberly J. Hoddinott Snyder, who received her BS in nursing from UW-Madison in 1991, has worked at University Hospital for 21 years and is currently on staff in the Ambulatory Procedure Center.

1990 Eric M. Rottier recently became CEO at Taylor Wharton International. He was previously president of Chart Industries, Inc. Eric and his wife, Nora, live in Excelsior, Minnesota.

1991 Jason R. Krantz is CEO of Infinata, Inc. a Financial Times company based in Norwood, Massachusetts.

1994 Patrick O. Sweeney is co-owner of Merchant, a casual farm-to-table restaurant in downtown Madison that features a craft cocktail bar and liquor store.

1995 Arika R. Kleinert has been working as property manager with the McKenzie Apartment Company in West Madison since June 2012.

Peter L. Rottier has been a Summit Partners principal since January 2012.

1997 Samuel J. Ballweg is the new fourth-generation president of Endres Manufacturing Company in Waunakee, Wisconsin. The company has an 87year history of steel fabrication. Sam earned a degree in business from Boston College in 2001.

For several years after graduation, he worked out of state, but returned to Endres in 2004. He lives with his wife, Anne E. Reichert Ballweg ’97, and their three children in Waunakee, Wisconsin.

Jessica A. Mattox Olsen is a special education teacher with the Madison Metropolitan School District. She lives in Moutn Horeb, Wisconsin, with her husband, Josh, and their daughter, Sophie Ann. Luke C. Olson completed his PhD in nuclear engineering at UW-Madison in 2009 and accepted a position with Savannah River National Laboratory in Aiken, South Carolina. Luke and his wife, Lawren, live in North Augusta, SC.

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Dan and Theresa Drake with their son, Alexander, who is dressed in traditional Korean clothing clothes called a “hanbok.”

Theresa M. Kidd Drake and her husband, Dan, who is a professor, moved to South Korea six years ago. Theresa now teaches English conversation classes at a private university after initially teaching writing, presentation, and conversation classes at a public university. She also teaches writing and conversation classes part-time at a science university and some research centers.

Prior to the family’s move, Theresa had earned an MLS and been working at the University of Minnesota in a library. She says, “I will be returning to the United States in summer of 2013 and I’m not certain if I will go back to library work or continue teaching English as a foreign language.

Professionally, being in Korea has been incredibly rewarding and has come with many unexpected benefits including very low teaching hours and an extended paid vacation.

“Being in Korea has also allowed me to travel SE Asia [including Thailand, Vietnam and the Philippines]. Future plans are to go to New Zealand, Cambodia, Laos, and Malaysia. Even if I can't get there from South Korea, I hope to come back to this side of the world again.

“Another side benefit to being in Korea is that my cooking skills have improved dramatically and my husband even learned to make his own beer. Korea is still pretty insular and are not open to world foods, other than pizza and pasta. I learned how to cook Indian food and falafel out of necessity. There are so many things that I just took for granted in the US because I had access to it like taco shells or even taco seasoning! Every time I come back to the States I stock up on my favorite foods and every Christmas and birthday I ask for western food to be sent to me.

Laura E. McFarlane has joined the Madison law firm of Bell, Moore & Richter as an associate and will be concentrating her practice in the areas of medical malpractice defense, civil rights and municipal litigation, general liability defense, insurance coverage, intellectual property and family law. She holds a BA, magna cum laude, from Boston University and a JD, cum laude, from UW-Madison Law School.

2001 Jessica M. Barghusen Splitter, her husband, Derek, and their sons, Max and Jack, have moved to Knoxville, Tennessee. Jessica taught in the Science Department at EHS, 2008-2012.

2003 Katherine M. Hoffman Copley is a 6th grade teacher in the Sun Prairie, Wisconsin, School District. She lives in Madison with her husband, Robert, and their daughter, Maci.

Stephanie L. Beckmann Topel lives in Madison and works at Monona State Bank as a loan processor.

Mallory A. Mason was profiled in an interview by Brian Klatt for the Fall 2012 Badger Insider. The online version (uwalumni.com/insider) featured an expanded article.

After pursuing studies in Radio, TV and Film at UWMadison, Mallory now is publicity coordinator for CBS Television, working in Hollywood with reality shows like Survivor, Big Brother, and The Amazing Race. She also handles many of CBS’ social media initiatives, running her department’s Twitter feed, @CBSTweet and its instagram and foursquare pages. Mason even has the chance on occasion to “Come on down!” and hang out on the set of The Price is Right. She also said, “I was at the ‘Teachers

18 • Edgewood High School of the Sacred Heart Rock’ concert that aired on CBS over the summer and I saw Garth Brooks. I also worked the Grammy Awards this past year.… I’ve been able to travel on location for Survivor. This past location, in the Philippines, I saw the most beautiful beaches. Just the boat rides to this location were amazing … and oftentimes I had to remind myself that this is my job!”

2004 Ross W. Hagens will receive a PharmD degree from the University of Colorado-Aurora in May 2013.

2006 Kiley Hearn was in the cast ensemble of She Loves Me, produced by Four Seasons Theatre in The Playhouse at the Overture Center fot the Arts in December. Aileen Wall ’06 was working backstage for the show.

2009 Connor Cosgrove was featured on The Journey on the Big Ten Network in November in a story on Connor’s battle against leukemia and how many of his University of Minnesota Gopher teammates have rallied around him. Connor was playing as a wide receiver on the football team. A feature article about him also appeared in the Wisconsin State Journal. Connor completed chemotherapy in midJanuary. He visits young people with cancer and shares his story at fundraisers, and is looking forward to getting back to “normal” life as a student before he earns his degree in business marketing

2012 Austin Arians is attending UW-Milwaukee where he plays on the basketball team.

Sheridan Hearn and a student from Beloit Turner High School were chosen as the two Overture Center Tommy Award winners to go on and be featured in Broadway or Bust, a PBS documentary that followed the 60 competitors of the National High School Musical Theater Awards as they sang, danced and acted their hearts out before making a Broadway stage debut and earning the title of Best Actor or Actress. The program aired September 9, 16, and 23.

Michael P. Okas had the leading male role in the musical, The Adding Machine, in October, staged by the Loras College in Dubuque, Iowa, where he is now pursuing undergraduate studies.

Kate Stein, now a freshman at Northwestern University, has been named a scholarship recipient for her testing through the National Spanish Examinations, sponsored by the American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese.

In addition to the funds she has been awarded, how prestigious is this honor? According to the National Director of the Examinations "...only 16 students are chosen from among the 150,000 students who take the National Spanish Exams each year.” Congratulations to Kate and to the EHS Foreign Language department.

Former Faculty and Staff Constance Lennarts, OP, who taught biology at EHS, 1963-1967, celebrated her 60th anniversary as a Dominican sister this past summer.

Joshua Kraemer, who was campus minister, 19992012 is now co-director of Thunderhead Camp in Mercer, Wisconsin. He married Bailey on November 17, 2012.

MARRIAGES Stephanie L. Beckmann ’03 married William R. Topel on July 28, 2012 in Madison. The Topels went on a European honeymoon, including Rome, Paris and The Netherlands.

Amanda M. Hawkins ’98 married Nicholas J. Femal at the Allen Centennial Gardens in Madison on July 21, 2012. The wedding party included Abby Tye Vaughn ’96, Molly C. Hayes O’Neill ’98, David A. Bolles ’98 and Wade P. Schuster ’98. Amanda and Nick live in the metro area of Washington, DC, where she works for the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID).

Lauren M. Helletewark ’01 married David W. Lederer on March 20, 2012 at the Chapel of the Flowers in Las Vegas, Nevada. The Lederers live in Neenah, Wisconsin.

Lauren N. Pantages ’02 met her husband, Jens P. Johnson, while they were students at Case Western University, and the couple was married at old St. Mary’s Church in Philadelphia on July 21, 2012.

The historic church was the site of the first public religious commemoration of the Declaration of Independence; Washington, Adams and Franklin all attended services at the church, and John Barry, father of the U.S. Navy, is buried in the church graveyard. Lauren and Jens now live in Austin, Texas.

Kristin A. Lindbloom Siminski ’97 married Steven J. Warden on May 5, 2012. The Wardens live in Suamico, Wisconsin.

James T. Stoiber ’09 married Ashley Wagman on June 9, 2012 in Janesville, Wisconsin, where they make their home. Matthew Stoiber ’11, served as best man.The couple spent their honeymoon in Anaheim, California, before returning to their busy life of school and work.

Christopher T. Tierney ’95 married Stacie Sauer on June 16, 2012. The Tierneys live at Hawks Landing between Verona and Madison, Wisconsin.

Rachel C. Torres ’07 married Andrew B. Brady on September 1, 2012. The marriage took place at the Gates of Heaven at James Madison Park in Madison. The Bradys now live in Austin, Texas.

BIRTHS Jessica L. Potts Copeland ’02 and her husband, James, are parents of a third daughter, Lilith Virginia, born on May 1, 2012. Lilith’s sisters are Athena and Miya. Lisa A. Haas ’78 is the proud grandmother and Norbert L. ’49 and the late Virginia E. (Lang ’48) Haas are the greatgrandparents.

Theresa M. Kidd Drake ’95 and her husband, Dan, are living in Korea with their son, Alexander Taejin, who was born March 8, 2011.

Aris G. Gialamas ’98 and his wife, Marta, announced the birth of a daughter on August 14,

2012. Petra Marilyn’s siblings are George and Candy.

Antoine D. Hansbro ’99 and his wife, Jennifer Wunsch, announced the birth of their first child, a daughter named Jaylen Annmarie, who was born September 9, 2012.

John D. Harrison ’98 and his wife, Liane, are celebrating the birth of their second child. Lillian Mae, born April 28, 2012, joined her sister, Eleanor who is 15 months older. The Harrisons live in Mazomaine, Wisconsin.

Cara B. O’Malley Hinrichs ’01 and her husband, Scott, became new parents with the birth of Harper Rose on February 10, 2012. Harper is also the first grandchild for Michael P. O’Malley ’70 and his wife, Paula. The Hinrichs family lives in Verona, Wisconsin.

Lori Battista LaFond ’95 and her husband, Michael, welcomed a son, Derek Michael, on October 23, 2012. Derek has a sister, Nadia.

Katherine A. Lenz Marron ’96 and her husband, Josh, have a son, Nathan, who celebrated his first birthday on September 16, 2012, and is looking forward to a sibling soon.

Anthony T. Martinelli ’96 and his wife, Colleen, have a new son. Jack Anthony, born on July 19, 2012, joins his sister, Jane. Thomas J. Martinelli ’67 and his wife, Ann, are the proud grandparents.

Timothy E. Martinelli ’98 and his wife, Katie became parents of their first child, Tyler Leonard, on August 6, 2012. Tyler is the third grandchild for Thomas J. ’67 and Ann Martinelli.

Sarah E. Statz Mattson ’86 and her husband, Dana, announced the birth of their tenth child.

Eva Natanya was born on October 24, 2012. Eva has four brothers and five sisters. Gregory M. and Joan Farrell Statz, both class of 1951, are the proud grandparents.

Anne G. Maturi-Doan ’98 and her husband, Eric, are the parents of their first child, Brady Joel, who was born December 4, 2012. The Doans live in Minneapolis. Brady is the fourth grandchild for Joel and Lois Maturi. Joel wore many hats during the 19 years he spent at Edgewood, among them coach and athletic director.

Kathleen E. Sweeney Minahan ’96 and her husband, John, are parents of a daughter, Nora Elizabeth, born July 15, 2012. The Minahans, including Nora’s siblings, Charlie and Molly, live in Wilmette, Illinois. Proud grandparents are Timothy C. Sweeney and Ann Jimieson Sweeney, both class of 1966.

Jessica A. Mattix Olsen ’97 and her husband, Joshua, became parents of their first child, Sophie Anne, on July 5, 2012.

Daniel M. Pantages ’99 and his wife, Kathleen, are the parents of a son, Joseph Alexander, who was born on January 10, 2012. The Pantages family lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Peter L. Rottier ’95 and his wife, Katie, along with their son Lucas, welcomed a baby girl. Lucas’s sister, Reagan, was born on August 28, 2012.

Kathleen E. Green Woit ’65 is the proud grandmother. The Rottiers live in Menlo Park, California.

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Randall L. Steinhauer II ’02 and his wife, Arya, announce the birth of a son, Randall Lee III on December 17, 2012. The Steinhauers live in Verona, Wisconsin.

Elliot J. Tieman ’99 and his wife, Jennifer welcomed the arrival of a second daughter. Older sister Etianna was joined by Paeley Diane Tieman on April 24, 2012. The Tiemans live in Hartford, Wisconsin.

Joseph E. Tomlinson ’93 and his wife, Jennifer, are parents of their first child, a son named William Lyman, born on October 5, 2012. Will is the fifth grandchild for Ralph J. ’62 and Mary Beth Tomlinson.

Steven R. Torres ’03 and his wife, Cassandra, are parents of their first child. Lillian Christine was born on November 1, 2011 in La Crosse, Wisconsin, where the family lives.

DEATHS 1936 Sr. Mary Olivia (Kathleen O.) Reindl, SSND 1936 Elaine Walsh Stricker 1937 Gerald R. Dunn 1939 Winifred M. Joyce O’Rourke 1940 Mary E. Sarbacker Drunasky 1941 Mary Ann Holm 1943 Virginia A. Higgins Connors 1943 LeRoy E. Purcell 1944 Robert K. Clark 1944 Mary M. Blatz Doucette 1946 Margaret V. “Peggy” Staats Daniel

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1947 Glenn P. “Pete” Birrenkott, Sr. 1947 Walter M. Heilman 1947 Elizabeth M. Dirnberger Hoage Miller 1948 Richard S. “Smitty” Burris 1948 Donald A. Niva 1950 Peter J. Viviani 1952 MaryAlice McCormick Dowdle 1953 Albert W. Greenheck 1955 Gail A. Thomas Thompson 1956 Marlys A. Scholz Purnell 1958 Patricia A. Dempsey Barkenhagen Freestone 1958 Joseph A. Pelletter 1959 John D. Richgels 1960 Virginia M. A. Langley Lokken 1961 Joseph M. Provenzano 1961 Gerald E. Richardson 1962 Theodore J. “Ted” Donohoo 1963 John T. Hitt, Jr. 1963 Keith F. Lawler, Jr. 1964 Dennis J. Badenna 1964 Victoria A. Georgeson Davison 1965 Frederick F. “Fritz” Frusher III 1966 Lance G. Haas 1969 Suzanne L. Roth Galloway 1969 Timothy K. Scallon 1970 Monica M. Tobin 1974 Timothy J. Brady 1976 Patrick J. Roach 1994 Shawn E. Wilson

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Members of the Class of 1947 gathered at Paison’s on Lake Monona this past summer, along with some of their spouses.

Front: Robert Finley, John Roach, Jim Devine and Howard Mazanet.

Center: Ted Maglio and Ila Mazanet.

Rear: Roland Frank, Carol Esser, Arlene Finley, Helen Frank and Betty Lund.

1952 July 13, 2013

The Class of 1952 gathers on the second Saturday of July every year at Dahmen’s Pizza Place at 4:00 p.m. for a cash bar, followed by a dinner buffet at 5:00 p.m. Just show up as this is informal and a mailing is not sent (though we do reach as many as we can via e-mail).

1963 August 23-25, 2013 Joyce Benzmiller Brown

Tom Gundlach Fran Lacy Dan “Jose” Lynch Dennis McKinley

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Fri., Aug. 23: Home of Mike & Bonnie Moschkau Casual social gathering Sat., Aug. 24: Elks Club - Smart-casual sit-down dinner Sun., Aug. 25: Edgewood High School - Mass (celebrant, Fr. Pete Guthneck) and tour

1973 August 2-3, 2013

Molly (Fitzpatrick) Anicete Nancy (Sorge) Shimeall

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Fri., Aug. 2, 5:00 p.m.: Monona Terrace Convention Center rooftop - Informal gathering. Free music; food/beverages available for purchase. Limited number of attendees admitted so come early!

Sat., Aug. 3, 5:00 p.m.: Club Tavern in Middleton, WI. See our Facebook page for more information.

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Presidential Search Update The process to find the next President for Edgewood High School is accelerating and the Search Committee is pleased to announce that a slate of more than 80 very qualified candidates expressed interest in the role. Though candidate backgrounds varied in key areas like academic background, business acumen and existing connections to the Edgewood community, they were all

highly attuned to Edgewood’s mission and their interest is a testament to the attractiveness of our school and sense of community.

After conducting interviews with seven individuals, the full Search Committee further winnowed the candidate pool to the final two or three for a second round of interviews during the week of January 7.

Faculty and staff members were invited to meet the candidates for a meet and greet,

and the finalists also met with other representatives of Edgewood’s many constituencies.

At the time this newsletter went to press, a decision had not yet been finaliuzed.

However, we remain confident that this approach will ensure that we name Edgewood’s next President yet this winter and allow for an orderly transition of responsibilities as we approach the end of the school year.

2012-2013 EDGEWOOD HIGH SCHOOL BOARD OF TRUSTEES Information on Board members is available at the EHS website, edgewoodhs.org Ave M. Bie Quarles & Brady, LLP Managing Partner Current Parent & Parent of Alumnus

Londa J. Dewey, Chair The QTI Group President Parent of Alumni

Michael A. “Mick” Casey Frank Liquor Company Chief Financial Officer Parent of Alumnae

Gerald W. “Jay” Everard US Bank VP, Trust Officer/ Wealth Management Advisor Parent of Alumni

Paul M. Cuta ’83 Engberg Anderson, Inc. Partner/Architect Current Parent & Parent of Alumna Joseph A. Daniels ’68 Joe Daniels Construction Co., Inc. President Parent of Alumni

Coleen M. Brady Flad ’68 Parent of Alumni

Maggie Hopkins, OP Edgewood College Assistant VP – Mission & Ministry Mark E. Lefebvre UW Foundation VP – Health & Life Sciences Paula A. McKenzie St. Mary’s Hospital Director of Pastoral Care Sinsinawa Dominican Associate Kevin P. Mullane Buchholz Planning Corporation President/Insurance Sales Parent of Alumni

David A. Hackworthy ’80 Baird HGMR Investment Management Katherine Michalski Rist, ’98 Managing Director/Portfolio Manager Foley & Lardner, LLP Associate Current Parent & Parent of Alumni

Judd T. Schemmel Edgewood High School President Current Parent David L. Stein, Vice Chair Associated Bank Director, Retail Banking Current Parent & Parent of Alumna Thomas A. Walker ’75 Mid-West Family Broadcasting President Current Parent & Parent of Alumni Counsel to the Board Timothy C. Sweeney ’66 Sweeney & Sweeney, S.C. Parent of Alumni