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Where is the first place you look when you open up the Ripon Magazine? If you are in the top 90 percent of people, you check the Class Notes to read about what your classmates have been doing since you last saw them. Please join them in adding your own information to keep the Ripon College community up to date.

Let us know about a new job, promotion, wedding, birth, achievement, or retirement. We’d love to hear about you and all of your successes! There are several ways to submit this information:

✍ Send your information to: Alumni Office

P.O. Box 248

Ripon, Wisconsin 54971

✍ E-mail us: alumni@ripon.edu

✍ Online at Ripon Online Community to add your information under “Class Notes” between parents and the College while promoting Ripon through special events. He will meet with volunteer members of the college’s parent board and discuss issues that affect students and parents, ranging from the food service to invitations for commencement. “We want to make Ripon College a better experience for their children,” Malchow says.

Malchow returned to the city of Ripon in the late 1990s and volunteered at the College as acting director of alumni and parent relations for four

Larry Malchow ’77, Margaret Kastein ’03 Work to Enhance Alumni Relations

months in 2002-03. In October 2003, he volunteered as acting director of the annual fund and held that position until he began his current job in June.

According to Vice President for Advancement Lyn Corder, Malchow’s professionalism as a volunteer, combined with his background, made him the ideal candidate for the position.

“He had learned very rapidly during his time as interim director of the annual fund and alumni and parent relations,” she says. “His training in the military and organizational skills made him stand out from the other candidates.”

After graduating from Ripon with a degree in English, Malchow briefly attended graduate school at the University of California at Berkeley and shortly thereafter joined the U.S. Navy where he spent 12 years as a cryptologic officer after learning Russian at the Defense Language Institute in Monterey, Calif. Later he worked for the National Reconnaissance Office in Chantilly, Va., providing satellite systems support for military and government organizations. Malchow also worked as an information systems engineer for a defense firm and wrote economic predictions for Perception International, a private think tank.

Kastein, meanwhile, will work directly with alumni in an effort to bring them closer to the College. “The bulk of my duties are focused on off-campus event programs, coordinating events — from a Milwaukee Brewer’s tailgate to an Al Jarreau ’62 concert in Atlanta, Ga.,” says Kastein.

Malchow says he welcomes the understanding he knows Kastein brings to the position. “Margaret is a perfect fit for the assistant director of alumni relations. She is a product of Ripon culture, knows the College through and through, and personifies what makes us unique — that we are a very personal institution in how we relate to each other, our students and our alumni,” he says. “She has the needs of our alumni uppermost in her mind.”

While a student at Ripon, Kastein interned for the Ripon Area Chamber of Commerce, Business Development Services in Ripon, the campus admission office and Students Talking About Respect (STAR), an educational initiative designed to prevent hatred and violence among youth. After graduating, Kastein was an executive team leader at the Target Corporation and then worked as a marketing and sales service coordinator at Aither State Farm Agency in Ripon.

Kastein, a native of Fond du Lac, Wis., knew that returning to Ripon would be a good choice. “After my internships throughout the community, working with various non-profits and on campus, I felt that Ripon was truly where my heart is and I’m very pleased to be back,” she says. r

Sarah Miller ’04 Miller earned an English degree from Ripon this spring. She is from Delmar, Iowa.