Northland College MAGAZINE
SUMMER 2015
Shedding Light on Water Northland launches a new center to address issues facing fresh water. Learn more on page 9.
Also in this issue: News • Class Notes • Athletics
Northland College Magazine SUMMER 2015 Mission Northland College integrates liberal arts studies with an environmental emphasis, enabling those it serves to address the challenges of the future.
Vision Northland College will be the nation’s preeminent liberal arts college focused on the environment, preparing students and other stakeholders to lead us toward a more sustainable, just, and prosperous future.
President Dr. Michael A. Miller
President’s Cabinet Leslie Alldritt Dean of Faculty, Vice President of Academic Affairs Heather Atherton Staff Council President and Gift Coordinator Clayton Russell Faculty Council President and Associate Professor of Environmental Education and Outdoor Education Robert Jackson Vice President of Finance and Administration Michele Meyer Vice President for Student Affairs and Institutional Sustainability Mark Peterson Executive Director, Sigurd Olson Environmental Institute Margot Carroll Zelenz Vice President of Institutional Advancement
Magazine Contributors
Regional Alumni Gatherings Northland is coming to you! Mark your calendars for these upcoming regional alumni events. Emails will follow with details as they develop. Be sure to update your email address by visiting northland.edu/alumni. Want to host an alumni event in your area? Contact the Alumni Office at (715) 682-1811 or alumni@northland.edu. August •• Chicago, Week of 8/24/15 September •• Baltimore, Mid-Atlantic Club of Northland College (MACNC) October •• Ohio, 10/11/15, Hosted by Craig Mullenbrock •• Minneapolis, 10/10/15, LumberJack & LumberJill Soccer vs Northwestern
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Class Notes
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November •• Madison, Week of 11/9/15 •• Milwaukee, 11/14/15, LumberJacks Hockey vs. MSOE •• Duluth, 11/20/15, LumberJacks Hockey vs. St. Scholastica January •• Chicago, 1/22/16, LumberJacks Hockey vs. Aurora University
On the Cover Lily pads reach toward the surface of Twin Lake, one of the many bodies of fresh water surrounding Lake Superior. Northland recently launched a new center to address issues facing fresh water. Learn more on pg. 9.
CONTENTS FROM THE PRESIDENT PG. 1 NEWS PG. 2 NEW ALUMNI PG. 6 SHEDDING LIGHT ON WATER PG. 9 PHILANTHROPIST OF THE YEAR PG. 15 ATHLETICS PG. 16
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CLASS NOTES PG. 19
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FROM THE PRESIDENT My phone started buzzing earlier this spring moments after the trustees of Sweet Briar College, located in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains in Virginia, announced their intention to close its doors with 700 students and an $85 million endowment. As you know, Northland College has roughly 600 students and an endowment that is not nearly so large. Sweet Briar officials cited overarching challenges that the college has been unable to handle: the lack of interest from female high school students in attending a women’s college like Sweet Briar, declining interest in liberal arts colleges generally, and eroding interest in attending colleges in rural areas. “We are thirty minutes from a Starbucks,” James F. Jones Jr., president of the college, told a reporter. Here is my take on this. Northland can not idly wait for students to arrive. We need to be nimble on our feet, create partnerships, diversify revenue, and embrace and build on our assets. In the last five years, we’ve worked to evolve our curriculum, take inventory of our natural assets, build our pillars of strength, and stay relevant. At a time when small colleges are merging, downsizing, or closing shop—we’re ramping it up. We offer programming, initiatives, and coursework around the subjects of water, food, rural community development, sustainable living, environmental restoration, and
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environmental communications. Our faculty continues to adapt curriculum to match the concerns and passions of students in a changing world. Instead of writing off the liberal arts, we need to make them relevant. We bring science and the arts together because as much as we need science, we need a generation that can interpret and communicate the findings. The global issue of our time is climate change and for many reasons, Lake Superior is the ideal location to study climate change adaptation. And now we have an endowment to support that important work. You’ll read in these pages about how the Mary Livingston Griggs and Mary Griggs Burke Foundation has awarded Northland College $10 million for a freshwater center we’ve named the Mary Griggs Burke Center for Freshwater Innovation. Through years of conversations, faculty, staff, students, and trustees agree that returning to our initial mission of environmental stewardship—by being more like ourselves, rather than less—serves not only the planet but also our students and financial stability best. We are a teaching hospital for the environment with a great deal of experiential learning, advanced
internships, teaching through partnerships, and faculty-student research focused on innovations and solutions. Northland College has not given up on the next generation. We know and trust they want more than just a nearby Starbucks. In fact, we’re counting on their passion, instincts, and ingenuity to lead us into the future. We also count on our ability to make it work.
Michael A. Miller President, Northland College
NEWS
Northland College’s Educator Preparation Program Receives National Recognition
students who implemented and participated in the pilot program. Nelson and faculty initiated the residency program two years ago. “Students from around the state said they wanted more time in the classroom,” Nelson said. “We responded with a two-semester clinical residency program integrated with classwork.”
The Association of Independent Liberal Arts Colleges for Teacher Education recently awarded Northland College a Model of Excellence Award for its clinical residency program.
Northland College created a concentrated block system where education students spend Mondays and Tuesdays in regional classrooms and Wednesdays and Thursdays on campus.
Director of Teacher Education Annette Nelson accepted the award last spring at the national conference held in Atlanta, Georgia. She presented it to her
Students stated appreciation for the mix of practical and theoretical instruction. “On paper, the Common Core standards are hard to understand but when
you get in the classroom, you can see how it plays out,” said Kaitlyn Witthun, a Northland College senior and elementary and middle education major. Students complete more than two hundred hours in a K-12 classroom before they begin student teaching. “We are the only educator preparation program in the state to offer this much undergraduate time in the classroom—double what the state requires.” This intensive, focused clinical program, Nelson says, places Northland graduates at the top of the resume pile when applying for teaching positions.
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NEWS The new 21st Century Conservation Service Corps, a national effort to place thousands of young people and veterans in conservation work, selected Northland College as one of its partners to facilitate the program. Many Northland College students, like Anna HipkeKrueger, will be able to log hours while they’re in college.
New Conservation Corps Teams with Northland The federal government has named Northland College as a partner in activating the next generation of conservation stewards. In December, the new 21st Century Conservation Service Corps (21CSC), a national effort to place thousands of young people and veterans in conservation work, selected Northland College in December as one of its partners to facilitate the program.
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While partners are still being added to the list, Northland College is the only four-year college and one of the few institutions in the upper Midwest on the list, said Stacy Craig, coordinator of applied learning at Northland College. The 21CSC provides preferential status to students and veterans who have logged time in internships, volunteer, or seasonal positions in the U.S. Forest Service for jobs with the same agency. “It is somewhat of a fasttrack system,” said Craig. “The partnership allows for students’ applications to be ranked at the top of the list along with federal
employees after they have gained experience interning, volunteering, or working seasonally with the forest service.” Many Northland College students will be able to log hours while they’re in college, Craig said. Craig helps Northland students find internships with nonprofit organizations, private companies, and federal agencies. “The real value comes when the internship translates from an experience in college to a career offer,” Craig said.
Former Bar Owner Leaves $200,000 to the Alma Mater of Her Best Customers A bar owner who never attended college has left $200,000 to the alma mater of her best customers. Ida F. Meyer of Lake Placid, Florida, died March 22 at 103. Her attorney faxed a letter to Northland College in late April informing them that Ida had named the College as her residuary beneficiary, an amount totaling about $200,000. “I might as well give it back to the College,” she told her attorney Michael A. Rider, during her estate planning. “Those kids were good to us.” Ida and her husband Casper (nicknamed “Cabbie”) opened Cabbie’s Tap on Main Street in Ashland in 1953. They ran it for a decade. Students from that era remember a fastidious, kind couple who did not tolerate loud or obnoxious behavior. They remember eating footlong hotdogs and brick cheese sandwiches on rye bread, drinking dime taps and playing hits on the jukebox. LaRae Schauer, who graduated from Northland College in 1962, specifically remembers the sauce Ida served with her foot-long hotdogs. “It was her secret recipe and not available to the public at that time,” she said.
Northland College Director of Alumni Relations Jackie Moore holds up a photo of Ida and Casper “Cabbie” Meyer in the Stagecoach Bar and Grill, formerly Cabbie’s Tap in Ashland, Wisconsin. Ida left $200,000 to support students at Northland because “those kids were good to us.” Cabbie’s is credited with many chance meetings, first dates, and long-lasting marriages. “I met my sweet wife of forty-eight years in the fall of 1964 on a Friday night at Cabbie’s,” said Northland College alumnus Tom Bogess. “I bought her a beer, we danced, and the rest is history.” Ida was born in Antelope, North Dakota, in 1911 to Herman and Rena Fischer. She married Casper Meyer in 1935. They owned several Wisconsin businesses, including Cabbie’s Tap. Casper died in 1991, and Ida moved to Florida. “Neither she nor her husband, Casper, had ever attended college,
having been so desperately poor in the Depression years,” Rider said. “They never had children of their own.” The bar, now named the Stagecoach Bar and Grill, remains in the same location on Main Street. It has been through a fire and several owners, but the one thing that remains constant is the clientele: Northland College students and alumni. In addition to Ida’s secret sauce, Schauer remembers Ida as pleasant and welcoming. “It doesn’t surprise me that she had a long life with her happy-go-lucky ways.”
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NEWS 2015 SONWA Winners Announced On Earth Day, Northland College announced its choices for the best in nature writing this past year. Three authors have been selected to receive the 2015 Sigurd F. Olson Nature Writing Award (SONWA) for adult, young adult, and children’s literature. Established in 1991, SONWA honors the literary legacy of Sigurd F. Olson by recognizing and encouraging contemporary writers who seek to carry on his tradition of nature writing. In 2004, organizers expanded the award to include children’s literature. This year marks the first to honor the young adult genre. The winners include: adult author Gary Ferguson for The Carry Home: Lessons from the American Wilderness, young adult author Paul Fleischman for Eyes Wide Open: Going Behind the Environmental Headlines, and children’s writer Alan Rabinowitz for A Boy and a Jaguar. All three books were published in 2014. The SONWA committees also recognized Margarita Engle for Silver People: Voices from the
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Panama Canal (young adult) and children’s author Phyllis Root for Plant a Pocket of Prairie for books worthy of “honorary mention.” Mark Peterson, executive director at the Northland College Sigurd Olson Environmental Institute that oversees the awards, hopes the SONWA serves as an encouragement to nature writers and readers across the nation. In addition to the award, each author will receive a cash prize and present at the Northland College campus this fall. In fact, the College has already confirmed that Paul Fleischman will speak Tuesday, September 15 at 7 p.m.
David Saetre Changes Roles
“Authors are no different from the rest of us who appreciate being recognized for outstanding work” Peterson said. “Our hope is that the award will inspire people to read the selected books for enjoyment and to gain a new perspective on our connections to nature.”
College Chaplain David Saetre retired from his responsibilities as campus minister at the end of the academic year. The College has asked him to continue serving as a visiting professor of humanities and to assist the religious studies program.
For more on these books and the awards, go to: northland.edu/earthday
“Like churches and their ministers, colleges also need a renewal of energy and direction for the campus’s spiritual life after a long pastorate,” Saetre said. “I’ve been Northland’s minister for more than eighteen years and know the College will benefit from new ministries—and, I’m grateful for continuing opportunities to serve the ‘noble little college with a big heart’.”
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Ryan Menebroeker ’15: Fisheries Technician Aboard the Kiyi Two weeks before graduation day, Ryan Menebroeker started his first day as a fisheries technician with the U.S. Geological Service, working a coveted position aboard the Kiyi Research Vessel on Lake Superior. In his three years at Northland—he transferred from UW-Eau Claire after completing time with the U.S. Air Force—he has participated in significant research, presented his findings, worked as a teaching assistant, modeled fish populations, and gone electrofishing.
Ryan interned with the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources aboard the Hack Noyes Research Vessel. His strong work ethic, thoughtful intellect, and deep motivation to learn and synthesize knowledge did not go unnoticed. Faculty selected him for the firstever James A. Meeker Award for Excellence in Natural Resources Research, awarded to a student who has excelled in research in the field of natural resources. He researched recent declines of the gray jay in northern Wisconsin. Using citizen science data from an annual population survey, the Christmas Bird Count, he analyzed and tracked relative gray jay abundance at five locations.
“This boreal species that is at its southern range limit is a case study in the challenges of twentyfirst century wildlife management in the face of climate change,” he says. When Ryan presented his research on the temporal abundance of gray jays in northern Wisconsin at the Minnesota and Wisconsin chapters of The Wildlife Society, they liked what they heard so much they recognized Ryan for best undergraduate presentation. He has submitted his research results for publication in The Passenger Pigeon, the official scholarly publication of the Wisconsin Society for Ornithology. “I hope to continue to study and manage Wisconsin wildlife species that are vulnerable to future extirpation as a result of climate change,” he says. SUMMER 2015 6
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Jessica Mohlman ’15: Finding World Solutions Through Evolutionary Biology Recent graduate Jessica Mohlman’s passion for biology and conservation first started when she was a child. “While many of my friends dreamt of being princesses and astronauts, I dreamt of being a scientist,” Jessica says. “I dreamt of traveling the world and helping save the planet.” Jessica began turning the dream into reality with internships with the Round River Conservation Studies Namibia program and The Field Museum in Chicago. “My time in Africa was the most emotionally, physically, and educationally challenging time in my life and has changed me forever,” Jessica says. “It was the experiences I had during my time there that further reinforced that I was doing exactly what I was meant to do.” She completed two internships at The Field Museum. Last summer The Field Museum selected her as one of the first Women in Science Undergraduate Research interns working on the Southern Mexican Economic Botany project, a project identifying historical plants in the Oaxaca Valley in Mexico.
“The fact that for the past two summers I spent every day within the establishment that inspired me when I was a child was at times overwhelming, and it was hard to believe I was accomplishing things I dreamt of as a child.” Jessica will be returning to The Field Museum this summer to work with the curator of African mammals and world-renowned researcher Bruce Patterson on the The Bats of Kenya project. Jessica plans to continue on for a doctorate in conservation and evolutionary biology. No surprise that as a graduating senior Jessica was selected for the Environmental Science and Natural Resources Faculty Award and the Indelible Mark Award, a Northland College award that recognizes students that best exemplify the spirit and values of the campus by leaving a positive lasting impression on the campus community. “My father always encouraged me to live my life inspired by the words of Ghandi, ‘be the change you wish to see in the world,’” Jessica says. “I hope to be exactly that.” As one of the first people in her family to pursue higher education, Jessica says she had to cross a number of barriers. “For awhile I thought my dreams of being a biologist would remain simply that—dreams.”
Support Scholarships at Northland. Change the World. Northland College students are doing amazing things—and not just in Ashland. Wisconsin. Through internships and research, volunteering and community engagement, they are reaching far beyond the campus and changing the world for the better. And you can help. For many students, scholarships are critical. The financial aid we’re able to offer makes a Northland education possible. Please consider making a gift to support the world changing work of our students. Make a gift online by going to:
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The Mary Livingston Griggs and Mary Griggs Burke Foundation in St. Paul awarded Northland College a $10 million endowment to create the Mary Griggs Burke Center for Freshwater Innovation—where arts, science, and the environment will merge at the family’s former 1902 country retreat and summer home, named Forest Lodge.
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THE MARY GRIGGS BURKE CENTER FOR FRESHWATER INNOVATION Northland College has hired journalist and author of The Great Lakes Water Wars Peter Annin and freshwater researcher Randy Lehr to codirect a new center devoted to freshwater issues.
“It is an amazingly beautiful property that—with Randy and Peter’s vision and direction—will validate and inspire the next generation of leaders as well as the world’s experts,” Miller said.
Annin has been the managing director of Notre Dame’s Environmental Change Initiative since 2010. He will start at Northland College in August. Lehr has been a professor and director of the Ecological Solutions Initiative at Northland since 2010.
In addition to codirecting the Center, Annin will write, speak, teach courses, and lead workshops. Annin is an accomplished journalist of twenty-five years—including eleven years at Newsweek and more than a decade as associate director of the Institutes for Journalism & Natural Resources. In 2006, he published The Great Lakes Water Wars, a definitive work on the Great Lakes water diversion controversy.
“The goal of the new Center is to shed light on research, innovations, solutions, and policies around the many and evolving issues related to water,” Annin said. “This is an exciting opportunity to work in a place that I love—the Lake Superior region—on a subject that I am passionate about.” The U.S. Forest Service has owned and administered Forest Lodge, pictured at right, since 1995. Northland College and the Chequamegon-Nicolet National Forest are working in partnership on finding the best uses of the property for scientific and educational purposes.
Professor Lehr will teach and oversee the development of science and applied research programs at the Center. Lehr’s work focuses on linking the science and policy to support the sustainable use of freshwater. Lehr and his staff are currently leading a series of projects focused on climate change
adaptation research in Lake Superior’s Chequamegon Bay and the integrated assessment and management of inland lakes and streams. “The work of the Center will evolve over time in response to emerging issues,” Lehr said. “But the long-term vision is to integrate research and education, such that we train future leaders, shape policy, and inspire action toward the protection and restoration of freshwater resources throughout the world.” The College has a long-standing partnership with the Burke family and the U.S. Forest Service in regards to Forest Lodge, a sprawling 870 acres of second growth forest that includes one island and several log buildings. “We look forward to preserving and becoming part of the legacy of the Burke family and, in doing so, plan to benefit students, community, freshwater, and the region,” Miller said.
“The Center’s activities—both at the College and Forest Lodge—will focus on water and environmental science, communication, education, and leader summits and symposia to advance policy and behavior change,” said College President Michael A. Miller. Forest Lodge is located forty miles south of Northland College and Lake Superior, the world’s largest body of fresh water, and in the heart of Wisconsin and Minnesota lake country. The Foundation provided Northland College with an additional $305,000 in start-up funds to hire, staff, and develop programming.
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Veteran Journalist Peter Annin on Conflict, Water Wars, Leaving Notre Dame, and his Best Moment on Lake Superior Peter Annin is a veteran reporter, author of The Great Lakes Water Wars, and in August will be moving to northern Wisconsin to codirect the Mary Griggs Burke Center for Freshwater Innovation at Northland College and to direct environmental communication. Here, he talks about his career and his decision to leave Notre Dame for Northland College and Lake Superior. Q. Your bio lists you as a conflict and environmental journalist. Did you go looking for conflict or did it find you? A. That’s a great question. The short answer is that conflict found me. As a young correspondent in Newsweek magazine’s Houston Bureau, I ended up getting assigned to a lot of big breaking news events, the most noteworthy of which was the Branch Davidian standoff outside Waco, Texas, which lasted for fifty-one days and ended in a massive conflagration that killed scores of people. After I moved to Newsweek’s Chicago Bureau, I kept getting drawn into that kind of conflict reporting, including the Oklahoma City Bombing, shooting massacres, and that sort of thing. Over time, because I had covered so many of those kinds of stories, whenever big breaking news occurred, the editors in New York often assigned those stories to me, which meant I was getting on planes flying all over
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the place. One year, I was on the road for more than six months. Q. How did you move into environmental journalism? A. As you might imagine, that kind of “beat” can take a toll, and after many years of covering big breaking news stories, I requested permission to write more about the environment—something that I had always written about between disasters—but this time I wanted to focus on the environment even more. The editors liked that idea, so I wrote a story on the Dead Zone in the Gulf of Mexico, as well as a piece on environmental recovery efforts in the Great Lakes. I also wrote about wind farms on the Great Plains, forest fires in the Mountain West, drought in the southwest, and issues of that sort. Q. How do the two fit together? Maybe the title of your 2006 book, The Great Lakes Water Wars, provides a clue? A. Yes, many environmental issues are contentious, and they
can often lead to conflict. Water is one of the most contentious issues of all and will continue to be so throughout this century. Many of the students at Northland College today will be dealing with water issues of one sort or another in their careers. Q. Why focus on the Great Lakes? A. The Great Lakes are a magnificent natural feature here in the heart of the North American continent. They are globally significant water bodies that I often refer to as the ‘Himalayas of Water’. They play a crucial role in defining the environment, cultures, industries, and societies that continue to grow and thrive in the region. It is important that citizens of the Great Lakes watershed appreciate the global significance of the waters of our region, remain up to date on the issues affecting those waters, and ensure that appropriate rules and regulations governing the lakes are in place. My book is about
the Great Lakes water diversion controversy—the idea that people have contemplated diverting Great Lakes water everywhere from Akron to Arizona. It continues to be a hot topic. Q. Name your favorite place or experience on Lake Superior. A. Several years ago my wife and I were wilderness camping on a remote uninhabited island in Lake Superior with our two sons, who were quite young at the time. We were far off the grid, a long way from the ambient light created by villages and towns. Late one night we were sitting on the shore scanning the Milky Way for shooting stars—reveling in the contrast between the darkness of the sky and the shimmering brightness of the stars. I went back to the tent to get something and was making my way down the path without a flashlight when suddenly, off the path, I noticed an extremely faint greenish glow on the forest floor. As I walked deeper
into the woods to investigate, I realized it was foxfire, the magical bioluminescent fungus that grows on rotting wood and literally glows in the dark. I went back to camp and gathered everyone to come see this woodland phenomenon that is the object of so much folklore and legend. Our boys had never heard of it, and they were positively fascinated by the mystery of it all. Rotting wood that glows in the dark? It was a great teachable moment reminding all of us that some of the coolest things in the wilderness are best appreciated long after the sun goes down and with the lights turned off. Q. You’ve been at Notre Dame since 2010. What about Northland College appeals to you? A. Working with faculty and staff at Northland to help improve environmental literacy and educate the next generation of environmental leaders is very appealing to me. We live in an increasingly urbanized world,
where populations are becoming disconnected from the landscape upon which society depends. Northland is committed to bridging that gap, helping people understand those connections, and finding solutions that promote economic growth in a sustainable fashion that helps ensure that future generations will inherit a world that has a thriving economy and a healthy environment. Q. You’ve not only worked as a reporter but mentored other environmental journalists, correct? A. There has always been something appealing to me in the mentoring/teaching process. Whether it involves working with newsroom colleagues or students on campus, there’s just something about making that connection with people to help them achieve new goals and higher aspirations. It can be very satisfying.
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accumulation of chemical contaminants in Great Lakes fish. That scientist ultimately became my graduate school advisor—and now I am studying Lake Superior. It has been a pretty interesting journey. Q. Do you still fish? Any favorite spots? A. My wife and I just took our three-year-old son fishing for the first time. The sheer joy and excitement on his face when he caught his first “keeper” is something I will never forget—so Perch Lake will always be one of my favorite fishing holes. Q. You’re currently working on a climate change adaptation project in Chequamegon Bay. What has surprised you most so far? A. I have been most surprised by how diverse and complex the nearshore of Lake Superior is. The idea that the Chequamegon Bay and Apostle Islands ecosystem is a mosaic of water quality conditions that is constantly shifting in response to the wind, waves, and tributary inputs is fascinating. Working to understand this system, and how it might be affected by climate change is exciting. Q. What do you hope to discover?
Water Researcher Randy Lehr Explains Why Chequamegon Bay Is a Model for Studying Freshwater Systems Since 2010, Randy Lehr has been the Bro professor of sustainable regional development, leading and directing students, faculty, and staff in the field and in the classroom. In August, Lehr will change roles to become the codirector of the Mary Griggs Burke Center for Freshwater Innovation. While he will be resigning his position as Bro professor, he will continue in his role of leading the campus in water research and findings. Q. Is it true you got hooked on science via fly fishing? A. In many ways, you could say science found me via fishing. When I was in high school, I never had any intention of going into science. I always loved to fish, but in college I worked for one of my professors studying trout streams near Winona, Minnesota. That experience got me excited about science and the thought of grad school. After my junior year of college, I took a backpacking trip—fishing pole in hand—on Isle Royale. As chance would have it, on the ferry back to the mainland, I met a scientist who was studying the
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A. Our work is focused on answering two questions: (1) are climate change impacts likely to negatively affect the Chequamegon Bay ecosystem and (2) is there a particular process through which climate change impacts are likely to occur? If we can answer
these questions, I am hoping it will help communities in our region prepare for life in the presence of a changing climate. Q. Water is one of the biggest issues facing the world—the demand for water and distribution. Do you anticipate a day when people are going to come knocking on the door for Lake Superior water? A. I see the Lake Superior region as the future front line of water resource science and management. Abundant fresh water, relatively inexpensive land, and increasingly mild winters will undoubtedly attract more people to the region in the coming years. In many ways, this might be a good thing, but the challenge will be maintaining the quality of the region’s relatively pristine water resources as the population increases and land uses change. Q. You begin your job as codirector in August. What are you most excited about? A. Because of the unique characteristics of the Chequamegon Bay and Apostle Islands ecosystem, I talk about this region as somewhat of a model system for understanding how science and policy can be integrated to sustainably manage water resources. It’s hard to envision a better location to study fresh water and the ability to integrate our students into this work is exciting.
Mary Griggs Burke Center for Freshwater Innovation Friday, September 25th 5-6 p.m.
presentation by codirecters Randy Lehr and Peter Annin
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cocktails under the tent on the campus mall Randy Lehr: Life on Lake Superior in a Changing Climate Lehr will discuss the influence of climate change on environmental management and community planning throughout the Lake Superior region. This presentation will summarize recent findings from research through the Chequamegon Bay and Apostle Islands ecosystem and discuss how regional communities might be impacted by, and adapt to, future climate conditions. Peter Annin: Water Tension and The Great Lakes Compact Annin will delve into the long history of political maneuvers and water diversion schemes that have proposed sending Great Lakes water everywhere—from Akron to Arizona. He will analyze several noteworthy diversions that already exist and shed light on potential water diversions of the future, including the water diversion application submitted by Waukesha, Wisconsin, in 2010. A decision on the Waukesha water diversion application is expected in late 2015 or early 2016. The program will be followed by a Harvest Trail Dinner on campus. For more information and to reserve tickets call (715) 682-1234.
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A book on display in the Great Room at Forest Lodge in Cable, Wisconsin, shows an image of Mary Griggs Burke and chronicles the history of the property. Burke has been named as the 2015 Philanthropist of the Year.
Mary Griggs Burke Named Philanthropist of the Year Mary Griggs Burke will be named Northland College’s Philanthropist of the Year in the coming 2015-16 academic year. Mrs. Burke passed away in 2012 at the age of ninety-six. Mary Griggs Burke grew up in St. Paul and resided in New York for much of her adult life. She earned her BA from Sarah Lawrence College, where she studied literature and painting. She later earned a master’s in clinical psychology from Columbia. During her lifetime, she maintained her family property on Lake Namakagon near Cable, Wisconsin, an 870 acre compound called Forest Lodge, where she summered almost annually. Mrs. Griggs was devoted to collecting and studying Japanese art, and her love for the northwoods showed in her particular attention to supporting educational programs in the region.
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Mrs. Burke bequeathed her extensive art collection to the Minneapolis Institute of Art and New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art. She also provided a $10 million endowment to Northland College to establish the Mary Griggs Burke Center for Freshwater Innovation—where arts, science, and the environment will merge. Mrs. Burke had long been a supporter of Northland College. She served on the Sigurd Olson Environmental Institute advisory committee in its early years, and she provided support for the College’s environmental and science programs for more than five decades. Northland College will honor Mrs. Burke this fall for her steadfast support of conservation and protection of the northwoods region, and her goals to provide education to its students and citizens.
ATHLETICS Northland Adds Lacrosse, Builds Stadium This spring, Northland College announced the addition of men’s and women’s NCAA Division III lacrosse along with the construction of a multi-million dollar lacrosse and soccer stadium. Stadium construction begins July 2015 and is slated for completion by the end of the year. The College has hired lacrosse coaches, with the inaugural season of lacrosse starting in 2016-2017. Played on a field with a stick and rubber ball, lacrosse is closely related to basketball, soccer, and hockey. “We are thrilled to add such a vibrant, fast-paced sport to our roster,” said Athletic Director Kim Falkenhagen. “It’s an exciting time to be an athlete, booster, and a spectator at Northland.” Designed by Rettler Corporation in Stevens Point, Wisconsin, the stadium amenities include: one thousand-seat grandstand, concession area, Wi-Fi, lighting system, press box, and restrooms. The existing soccer field will be upgraded to artificial turf for an extended playing season and will incorporate features that maintain the campus’ zero storm water discharge project. Additional donors have gifted funds for the first three years of lacrosse. “Northland will be the furthest north NCAA school with lacrosse, which is great for the sport in
this region—it will help raise awareness of lacrosse and bring in more fans and spectators,” said Sam Litman, who has been coaching lacrosse for the last eleven years at the University of Minnesota-Duluth. Lacrosse is the fastest-growing NCAA sport, according to U.S. Lacrosse, that produces an annual participation report. In fact, the number of lacrosse players has grown 194 percent since 2001, when they first started collecting data.
An architectural drawing provided by Rettler Corporation of the new Northland College stadium to be built on the site of the current soccer field. The improved facility will feature a state-of-the-art playing surface, grandstands, concession area, and restrooms. It will be home to the Northland College soccer and lacrosse programs.
“This is a proud moment for Northland and for our athletes and fans,” said Northland College President Michael A. Miller. “Personally, I can’t wait to sit with fans and watch games from the grandstand.” SUMMER 2015 16
ATHLETICS Lacrosse 101:
With Junior Matthew Hoszko From: St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada Double Majors: Business Management, Sustainable Entrepreneurship Activities: Vice President of Student Athletic Council, Public Relations Coordinator of WRNC 97.7FM Q. How did you discover lacrosse? A. Lacrosse was a major part of growing up in Canada. It was always hockey in the winter and lacrosse during the spring and summer months. I was actually lucky enough to have a lot of classmates along with other hockey players as teammates on my lacrosse teams. Q. You play hockey and lacrosse. Are they similar? A. Hockey and lacrosse are very similar because of the intensity and teamwork needed for both sports. Although I was both a hockey and lacrosse player, other similarities would be soccer and basketball. This is because they involve passing, shooting, scoring, and relying on each team member to get the job done. Q. For the uninitiated, could you describe lacrosse in three sentences or less? A. Lacrosse is a fast-paced, team sport. It involves thinking on the fly, quick decision-making, mental and physical toughness, along with a desire to compete just like every other sport. It is currently one of the fastest growing sports in the Midwestern United States. Q. What’s your best lacrosse moment? A. Competing in numerous provincial tournaments along with placing fourth in Ontario during the provincial box lacrosse tournament (box lacrosse is also referred to as indoor lacrosse).
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Q. What about spectating? A. Watching lacrosse, some of the best moments are the grit and toughness. Big hits and solid defensive plays from goalies or defensemen are the things that turn my eye. Q. Do you have favorite teams? A. The Toronto Rock of the NLL. They are a professional lacrosse team located in Toronto. When I was growing up, it seemed like every year they would get the best players and be the most exciting to watch, not to mention all of the titles they seemed to win. Q. Do you plan to play for Northland? A. I would love to be a part of Northland’s lacrosse team—I have experience with the game. Not to mention with the addition of a new field on campus, being a part of the whole process would be extremely exciting to me. I look forward to the opportunity of being a member of the LumberJack lacrosse team!
Women’s Hockey Coming Soon Northland College has added women’s hockey to its NCAA Division III hockey program, effective for the 2016-2017 season. “The driving force behind the decision is the continued growth of hockey and Northland’s location, central in a region renowned for highly competitive play,” said Head Men’s Hockey Coach Seamus Gregory. “We know that there are young women who want to play—and we’d like to make it available.” In the Northland College region alone, twenty-five to thirty girls under the age of eight play hockey for Ashland Youth Hockey, said Gregory, who along with his players, volunteers with the youth hockey program.
“Having both men’s and women’s NCAA Division III ice hockey programs will allow the College to offer an even more comprehensive and equitable intercollegiate athletic program,” said Northland College President Michael A. Miller. “They also increase our ability to serve the needs of excellent student-athletes who want to play here.” Northland College is currently working with the Bay Area Civic Center and the City of Ashland on plans to add a women’s locker room at the Civic Center, where ice hockey is practiced and played. “Growing any sport is exciting, and this is one of the larger growing sports—along with lacrosse—and it’s exploding in the Midwest and in the NCAA,” Gregory said.
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CLASS NOTES CLASS OF 2011
CLASS OF 2009
Miguel Alvelo graduated with a master’s degree in sociology from UW-Milwaukee in 2013 and currently works as a volunteer coordinator in a popular education community organization in Little Village, Chicago, where he helps connect prospective volunteers, interns, and socially committed researchers with community projects in Chicago’s Southwest side. He collaborates on several community social justice efforts that include urban horticulture, violence prevention, and youth and adult education, which focus on community empowerment through participatory learning.
Carly (Clemens) Stephenson and Tyler Stephenson ’10 welcomed a baby girl last summer. Gwendolyn joined her parents and an assortment of animals on their newly-purchased farm in Emerald, Wisconsin. Carly and Tyler hope to one day quit their day jobs and become full-time farmers. They can be reached at willothewinds@ gmail.com.
Travis Moore and wife Mia welcomed a daughter last November. Maple Violet Moore was born at the Ashland Birth Center weighing 8 lb., 8 oz. and measuring 21¾ inches. Maple was welcomed by her older brothers, Ezra and Ira. Laurel Smerch will be attending graduate school at Western State Colorado University starting in August.
CLASS OF 2010 Sarah Miranti is pursuing a master’s degree in public administration from Southern Illinois University Carbondale and has been named the Celia M. Howard Fellow with the Paul Simon Public Policy Institute. She will do research on local social issues over the 2015-2016 school year.
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CLASS OF 2007 David Furse is vice president of Energetix in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He and fiancée Rachel Engle have planned a July wedding in Rehoboth Beach.
CLASS OF 2006 Scott Canfield and Katie (Revak) Canfield ’08 have relocated to Madison, Wisconsin, where Scott is a post-doc at UW-Madison and Katie works for Hooper Corporation and as a professional photographer. They married in Bayfield in 2011 and welcomed their son, Wesley, in February 2013 as Scott earned his Ph.D. in physiology. Scott, Katie, and family (including Carrie Canfield ’09) traveled to Alaska to hike the Chilkoot trail last summer. Katie highly recommends this experience to any Northlander. Now, they are expecting a baby girl in April.
CLASS OF 2005 Lindsey Ruder has settled in at Shoshoni Yoga Retreat—an ashram located in the mountains outside of Boulder, Colorado,— after many years of travel and “farming around.” She spent four years studying yoga and
meditation as well as performing seva, or selfless service, before returning to Philadelphia Community Farm in 2014, a non-profit farming community in Osceola, Wisconsin, where she completed an AmeriCorps program shortly after graduating from Northland. Emily joined a small group of people who moved onsite to transition the founders into retirement, as well as to revive and create new projects and community life on the farm. They have since nurtured the creation of Buttermilk Falls Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) and Folk School retreat on the beautiful St. Croix River Valley farm. There, Emily manages the CSA and internship programs, coordinates educational and retreat visits, works with individuals with developmental disabilities and children, and tries to play outside as much as possible!
CLASS OF 2004 Allison (Thoele) Ahrens and husband Samuel welcomed their son Frederic Ernest last November. Emily Stone is the naturalist/ education director at the Cable Natural History Museum. The poet Mary Oliver asks: “What is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?” Teaching kids of all ages about nature in beautiful places is Emily’s answer. Drawing from her experiences at Northland, where she majored in outdoor education with a minor in geology, she traveled around the country to naturalist jobs in Canyonlands National Park, Acadia National Park, and even a month of wolf-watching in Yellowstone. She spent a couple of years at the University of Vermont getting a field naturalist
master’s, with her summers in Maine as a field botanist, and then as an adjunct instructor at Unity College in Maine one fall. Now, as part of her position in Cable, Emily writes a weekly column called “Natural Connections” for newspapers in Northern Wisconsin and Minnesota: http:// cablemuseumnaturalconnections. blogspot.com/
CLASS OF 2003 Brittany Barski and husband Ken welcomed their second set of twins, Archer and Aurora, on February 10. They weighed 7 lb. 8 oz. and 7 lb. 1 oz. Siblings Darwin and Dahlia, fifteen months, watched their family grow by four feet! Ken is employed by the Cleveland Cavaliers. Before the babies, Brittany worked for ten years in urban agriculture and healthy food initiatives for lowincome residents. She was most focused on urban renewal by designing and building community gardens, children’s gardens, urban farms and teaching gardens. She would build the spaces, then teach and train low-income high school students or low-income adult residents from the public housing organization to develop and grow food in the space. The programs Brittany ran were job training programs, but the programs had greater influence on the people personally: their lifestyle choices, eating habits, and community involvement. Now, she works very hard from home with four bundles of joy and a quarter-acre garden where she grows greens, tomatoes, corn, pumpkins, okra, beans, raspberries, apples, grapes, pears, and all of their herbs. They also have a beehive for pollination and honey and a dozen or so chickens. The plentiful harvest feeds their family with more to give away.
Brittany also freezes, cans, and dries the produce for the winter and make apple sauce, tomato sauce, jelly, pickles, and all of the kids’ baby food.
CLASS OF 2001 Laura (Watt) Spjut and her husband Jakob Spjut welcomed their fourth baby into the world during a blizzard on January 27, 2015. Baby Kaia is much loved by her older sister Freja and brothers Odin and Soren. Laura enjoys the challenges of the hardest job on earth—a stay at home parent. She is also very involved in giving service in her church and community. Jakob is an engineering teacher at Quinebaug Valley Community College in northeastern Connecticut. They recently celebrated their seventh wedding anniversary.
CLASS OF 2000 Mary Jo (Otterbein) Gingras and her husband Bradford Gingras ’01 live in Marengo, Wisconsin, with their daughter Madison, 10, son Bradan, 8, and dog, Bella. They live in a timber frame home built by another Northland graduate on thirty-five acres in the woods. Their family enjoys hiking, gardening, and skiing. After graduating, MaryJo worked for the Iron County Land & Water Conservation Department as county conservationist until 2013 when she returned to Northland as the lake program coordinator. In 2015, she began a new position with the College as outreach programs coordinator and director of summer programs. MaryJo is passionate about her family, especially as she and her husband teach their children about gardening, harvesting food from their land, and to respect the
environment. She enjoys spending time on any lake, mountain biking, cross country skiing, serving on the board of directors for Our Lady of the Lake Catholic School’s Home and School Committee, and volunteering for Faith in Action. In addition, she has served on several planning boards, including the Wisconsin Land and Water Conservation Association, Northwest Wisconsin Lakes Conference, Cable Natural History Museum Landscape Committee, and Chequamegon Bay Audubon Society. She is also one of the newest members of the Northland College Alumni Board.
CLASS OF 1998 Steve Dykema has just earned his Board Certified Entomologist (BCE) in February. A BCE is the equivalent of a master’s degree in pest control, and is the highest level a Pest Management Professional (PMP) can attain. Steve works for Rose Pest Solutions in Grand Rapids, Michigan, and is now the fifth BCE in the company, and only the third in the state. His new credentials will require him to be able to identify all sorts of odd insects that people may send him from all over the country, but mostly the Midwest. He joins the ranks of just under three hundred urban and structural emphasis BCE’s nationwide.
CLASS OF 1992 Robyn and Brent (’93) Couperus own and operate Wildwood Haven Resort, LLC in Mellen, Wisconsin. (715) 274-6136
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CLASS NOTES CLASS OF 1991 Nicole Knudson and her husband celebrated their twentieth wedding anniversary last year. She is employed as a gardener at the local public gardens and volunteers with her husband as a search, rescue, recovery, and man-tracking resource for the Virginia Department of Emergency Management.
CLASS OF 1990 Matt Troskey accepted the position of director of human resources with Mt. Hood Meadows Ski Resort last November after moving from Leavenworth, Washington, his home of fifteen years, to Hood River, Oregon. He loves his new home but misses his Washington friends (several of whom are Northland grads). Since the move to Oregon, he has connected with fellow Northlanders Miel Nelson and Dale Peters and is looking forward to more.
CLASS OF 1989 Neil Seymour would like to help start an environmental news blog for Northland College alumni. neil. seymour@hotmail.com
CLASS OF 1987 Linda Ganister lives in Ely, Minnesota, and works as a bookkeeper for Raven Productions, which has published Northland alum David Olesen’s book, A Wonderful Country, and Northand adjunct professor and full-time staffer Julie Buckles’ book, Paddling to Winter. She also works for the Blue Mountain Project, a nonprofit started by
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Northland alum Denise Cagley Jefferson, and founding board members Kent Shifferd and Northland alum Jess Adams. She is also on the board of the Ely Winter Festival—Nobody Does Winter Better. Linda was finally able to marry her partner of thirty-one years, Sue Duffy, in 2013.
CLASS OF 1984 Lorraine Downing is living in Nashville, Tennessee, with her musician husband Terry. They have a twenty-year-old daughter, Sarah.
CLASS OF 1983 George Gatlin is in Hamilton, New Jersey, employed at Covance as a user acceptance test manager. Patrick Reinhart is living in Anchorage, Alaska, with his wife, Rebecca, and two labs. He is now the executive director of the Governor’s Council on Disabilities and Special Education. In addition, he and his wife own a pizza store in Wasilla, Alaska, called the Great Alaska Pizza Company. Visiting this summer will be Richard (Bruce) Byrne ‘83, and Liz Remsen ‘83.
CLASS OF 1981 Karen Beneke has retired from the Department of Transportation. She is enjoying retirement by doing things she loves: golfing and bowling.
CLASS OF 1978 Tim Kempf has retired after thirty-six years in management and human relations, residing in Sun Prairie, Wisconsin, and
Three Lakes, Wisconsin. After teaching and coaching one year, working in the lumber and construction business for five years, the next sixteen at Marquip Inc., and subsequent fifteen at Total Administrative Services Corporation, Tim is retiring as executive vice president of human resources in January 2015. Sandy and Tim enjoy the company of a daughter, two sons, and two grandchildren, all living in the Madison, Wisconsin, area.
CLASS OF 1977 Pamela (Gierczic) Wolfe has retired as a blood bank specialist/ technologist at University of Texas Medical Branch. Her philosophy in retirement is to “experience the best this big, round ball has to offer.” Along with her husband Don, Pamela has already been to most of the fifty states as well as Europe and Australia. She reports that her bucket list includes seeing all of our national parks.
CLASS OF 1975 Susan L. Turney was named the first-ever chief executive officer of Marshfield Clinic Health System, which was formed in 2012 to put all of the organization’s parts under one governing body. She will oversee a large enterprise that is unique in rural America. In total, the system has six thousand, six hundred employees, seven hundred doctors and about two billion dollars of annual revenue. Since graduating from Northland, Susan was at Marshfield Clinic for twenty-two years in clinical practice and administrative roles. She is a former CEO and president of the Wisconsin Medical Society. She has been named to Modern Healthcare’s
list of fifty top influential physician executives in each of the past three years and was most recently the president and chief executive officer of Medical Group Management Association in Englewood, Colorado, a national trade organization for health care executives. Howard Larson was honored when his business, Larson & Associates, was selected for the 2015 Best of Palatine Award in the Merchandising & Marketing Consultants category. Each year, the Palatine Award Program identifies companies that have achieved exceptional marketing success. These are companies that enhance the positive image of small business through service to their customers and community. In continuous business since 1975, Howard and his team are a leading provider of business development, telemarketing, advertising and marketing solutions specializing in the marketing of both complex and simple business product/ services.
CLASS OF 1971 Kerry L. (Johnson) Hill is retiring from Washburn High School after teaching math there for twenty-five years.
CLASS OF 1970 Bob Brevak is one of three Northland alumni who were inducted into the inaugural class of the ABC Raceway Hall of Fame as part of the track’s fiftieth anniversary celebration. The Hall of Fame was created to honor and recognize those who built, maintained, and raced at what has become one of the most popular and successful all-volunteer-run
stock car racing facilities in the Upper Midwest. Bob was track champion in 1968 and 1970, and after sixteen career feature wins on the red-clay oval, he went on to compete successfully in several national stock car series such as ARCA and the NASCAR Truck Series. Bob also won the ARCA National Championship in 1990.
Promoters Hall of Fame in the early 1990s for her outstanding service and commitment.
Dave Pufall and Marie (Pflanzer) Pufall ’73 are enjoying semi-retirement in Green Bay, Wisconsin and loving life. They have fond memories of their years at Northland in the late 1960s and early 1970s.
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CLASS OF 1968 Jane (Halling) Advani is still in Ventura, California, and loving it. She invites friends who travel to the area to find her in the phone book for a visit. Dennis Asbach was inducted into the ABC Raceway Hall of Fame. He was honored for his forty years of volunteering at the track, including many years of service as club treasurer and on its board of directors. Dennis also served or assisted as treasurer for the Red Clay Classic for twentytwo years and was cited as “a trusted, responsible volunteer of high integrity.” Jeanne (Duffek) Hmielewski was also inducted into the ABC Raceway Hall of Fame. She was celebrated for her forty-six years of volunteer service, with duties ranging from serving as the club’s secretary and its first publicist, to more recently acting as the track’s chief scorer and points director. Jeanne has also served on the board of directors and was recognized by the National Race
CLASS OF 1965 Doug Porrey is president of Ionex Research Corporation in Boulder, Colorado.
Judith Hoppe retired in 2000 after spending thirty-six years as a math teacher. She enjoys traveling with her husband.
CLASS OF 1963 Leo Schmidt of Glidden, Wisconsin, is still interested in history, political science, economics, and mathematics after over fifty years working in mathematics.
CLASS OF 1962 Bob Chase has retired from his position as director of orchestras at Whitefish Bay and lives in Fox Point. He enjoys travel, gardening, and his family: his daughter, son, and six grandchildren—all in the Milwaukee area.
CLASS OF 1957 Gene Thomas is still teaching math part time at Madison College.
CLASS OF 1944 Margaret J. Abrams still loves to garden at ninety-two years old. She credits her affinity to Dr. Bobb, who instilled the love of gardening in her in the early 1940s.
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CLASS NOTES
Want to see your news in Class Notes? To submit notes, please contact: Phone: (715) 682-1811 Email: alumni@northland.edu
SYMPATHY TO THE FAMILIES OF: Joyce (Paulson) Wedel ’39; Roseville, CA; died 01.13.15 Kathlyn Joanis Gildersleeve ’40; La Habra, CA; died 02.27.15 Joyce Darry ’41; Ashland, WI; died 02.26.15 Richard J. Justice ’50; Alexandria, MN; died 01.09.15 Frank Ledin ’50; Ashland, WI; died 02.19.15 John S. Emerson ’54; Shawano, WI; died 02.01.15 Louis M. Bickel ’58; Mason, WI; died 03.29.15 William F. Knoblauch ’62; Ashland, WI; died 02.09.15 Gerald O. Nelson ’65; Ashland, WI; died 04.09.15 Herbert G. Spears ’66; Drummond, WI; died 04.03.15 Mary Ann Broskovetz ’69; Carlton, MN; died 02.11.15 Ronald J. Deiler ’69; Libertyville, IL; died 03.28.15 Patricia (Thoma) McDonough ’71; Itasca, IL; died 01.22.15 George Erdman ’72; Hudson, OH; died 01.29.15 Robert E. Wilks ’75; Beloit, WI; died 12.27.14 James R. Larson ’74; Hayward, WI; died 05.17.15 Richard D. Tweedie ’77; Dousman, WI; died 01.15.15 Jane G. Malsheski ’77; Ashland, WI; died 01.19.15 Judith A. Abelson ’78; Hurley, WI; died 02.17.15 Raymond W. Mollard ’81; Ashland, WI; died 05.20.15 Steven M. Stoelb ’86; Livingston, MT; died 04.04.15 Jacob S. Carlson ’10; Duluth, MN; died 02.12.15
For additional class notes and obituaries, go to: northland.edu/classnotes
Mail: Office of Alumni Relations 1411 Ellis Avenue Ashland, WI 54806 Director of Alumni Relations Jackie Moore ‘05 Alumni Association Board of Directors: Jim Quinn ’73-President Craig Mullenbrock ’77-Vice President K. Scott Abrams ’77 Richard L. Ackley ’71 Bobbi Blazkowski ’71 Laurel J. Fisher ’72 Gail Fridlund ’15 MaryJo Gingras ’00 Stuart Goldman ’69 Mark Gross ’83 Beverly J. Harris ’72 Tam Hofman ’80 Grace Krysinski ’15 Max Metz ’10 Peter B. Millett ’69 Travis Moore ’11 Jaime Moquin ’98 Samuel D. Polonetzky ’70 Wendy Shields ’04 Patti Skoraczewski ’74 Marguerite Waters ’49 Kelly Westlund ’07 Leanne Wilkie Shamszad ’04 Kelly Zacharda ’05
To submit a note go to: northland.edu/alumni
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Archives Display in Library Northland Softball Game Cabbie’s Celebration at Stagecoach Bar Mary Griggs Burke Center for Freshwater Innovation Celebration Harvest Trail Dinner Alumni After Hours Gathering NCSA Coffee Haus featuring the Evergreen Grass Band
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Farmers Market Shuttle Fall Fest Tie Dye Indigenous Cultures Center Student Lacrosse Demo Alumni Picnic on the Mall
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Northland Mall Games Uncorked Art on the Mall LumberJills Volleyball vs Bethany Lutheran LumberJills Soccer vs Crown LumberJacks Soccer vs Crown Morgan Falls/St.Peter’s Dome Trip Bayfield Orchard and Winery Tours Boar’s Head Sports Lounge Alumni Banquet Honoring the Class of 1965 Fall Festival Photo Booth Bands and Brews Under the Stars
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Fall Festival Convocation President’s Alumni Brunch for Class of 1975 and all preceding classes Northland Archives Tours
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Professor of English Alan Brew and six students embark on a two-week May term trip in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness for Pens and Paddles in the Northwoods, a travel course that explores writing in a wilderness setting. Photo by Bob Gross.