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Cotton Candy a Big Hit at Springfest ’03

Springfest ’03 featured a cotton candy booth along with lots of other ways students could get involved. The focus of the weekend event was the live bands.

Brooke Tireman Konopacki ’94, Ripon’s director of admission, represented the College at a Reserve Officer Training Corps program in Fort Knox, Ky., last summer. Among the ROTC training requirements she completed were crossing a stream on a three-rope bridge, purposely capsizing a boat with 12 people in it, including her, eating an MRE (meals ready to eat) lunch, touring the barracks, rappelling off a 37-foot wall and touring a survival training camp. Above, she shoots in a 9mm laser beam activity.

Last Year’s Legacies

This is only a fraction of the legacies who attended Ripon last academic year. The legacies include students who are a son, daughter, grandchild, brother, sister or niece/nephew of an alumnus/na or a sibling of a current student. The number of legacies has been growing in recent years and the College offers a special scholarship to them as an incentive to attend Ripon. In front, from left, are Connie Kindler ’05, Kelly Solberg ’06, Kari Barber ’06, Jenny Nee ’03, Kate Hersey ’04, Amber Kind-Keppel ’05, Elyane Monnens ’03, Samia Khan ’04. In the second row, from left, are Morgan Grimes ’06, Chun-Yu Ng ’06, Natalia Rincon ’05, Stephanie Hasz ’05, Emily Heck ’05, April Dunlavy ’04, John Dunlavy ’06, Brenda Bayard ’03. In the third row, from left, are Ethan O’Connell ‘03, Lindsy Kolden ’05, Maegen Cox ’06, Kristen McCullough ’04, Patsy Rincon ’04, Amanda Nattinger ’06, Stephanie Kline ’06, Cliff Searl ’06, Kate Ellenbecker ’04, Colleen Ellenbecker ’06. In the fourth row, from left, are Angie Hodgson ’06, Erin O’Connell ’04, Megan Anderson ’03, Jenny Fitzgerald ’04, Ashley Bildstein ’03, Andy Kitslaar ’05, Helayne Sampson ’03, Brian Macak ’06, Matt Jansma ’06, Elizabeth Giedd ’06, Quinn Brusky ’06. In back, from left, are Jodi Power ’04, Tim Peters ’06, Sebastian Meade ’04, Donal Heidenblad ’03, Joe Dane ’05, Tom Becker ’05, John Ernser ’04. Ric Damm photo

Alumni Honor Senior Award Recipients

These three 2003 seniors received the Alumni Senior Award during last spring’s awards convocation. In front are Lindsey Hoel of Madison, Wis., and Adam Weiss of Marshfield, Wis. In back are then Interim President Dave Williams, left, and Matt Gehring of Eau Claire, Wis. The award, presented on behalf of the college’s Alumni Board, recognizes campus involvement and academics. Ric Damm photo

Summer Belly Dancing – Ripon Style

These four Ripon alumnae all signed up for the same summer belly dancing class at Discovery Center in Chicago. Barb Belcore-Walkden ’99 of Chicago, second from left, notes that “after a few awkward moments standing in the waiting room thinking to ourselves, ‘Is that who I think it is?’ we all reunited to catch up on the last several years.” From left are Starr Nordgren ’99, Belcore-Walkden, Trisha Schmitt ’98 and Julie Mathers Hogan ’99.

Smiles in North Carolina

This group of Ripon alumni got together at the home of Bonnie Buck Barrett ’62 in Raleigh, N.C., in late March. From left in back are Joe White ’59, Dave Wolter ’61 and Karen Agazim Wolter ’62. In front, from left, are Darlene Etchingham White ’62 and Barrett. The Whites are from West Chester, Pa., and the Wolters are from Zebulon, N.C. Darlene also reports that they live near Dan and Ronell Bradbeer Anderson ’59/’59; and that they visited Richard Threlkeld ’59 and his wife, Betsy, in Tucson in February.

Scholars Meet Alumni Donors

Award recipients and donors got together last spring for the first Alumni Scholars dinner at the president’s home. The new program in development aims to match up participating donors of more than $5,000 with students who earn the awards through the admission process. Above, scholarship recipient Phil Argon ’06 of Des Plaines, Ill., eats with donor Chuck Van Zoeren ’53 of Kalamazoo, Mich. At far right is Chuck’s granddaughter, Jonna Van Zoeren, 7. Sal De Los Angeles ’05 photo

A Letter to a Soldier

Ripon ROTC cadets along with other students gathered last spring to write letters to Ripon alumni who are in the military serving in Iraq during the war. Several of those receiving the letters wrote back indicating what a great gesture the effort was and how nice it was to hear from a student at Ripon. Sal De Los Angeles ’05 photo

Project Madog Earns Award

Professor of Physics Mary Williams-Norton and her “Project Madog: Investigating Science, Mathematics and Technology in Wisconsin and Beyond” earned a Promising Practices Award from the Wisconsin PK-16 Leadership Council. Project Madog was funded through a more than $37,000 grant from the Eisenhower Professional Development Program. It allows teachers from the cooperating schools to communicate and share ideas and cultural information on topic areas in science, mathematics and/or technology each semester. Participants included school districts in Ripon, Berlin, Green Lake and Oakfield, Wis.; Ripon College; the School of Education of the University of Wales Bangor; and several schools in Wales.

From left are Williams-Norton; Keri Simacek, assistant director of the project and teacher at Murray Park Elementary School in Ripon; Bruce McMurry P’01, principal, Belle Reynolds School and K-12 director of instruction in Oakfield, Wis., School District; and Liz Roy, retired teacher from Oakfield.

Ties That Bind

These alumnae of Alpha Delta Pi sorority on campus gathered in Florida last March during a spring break trip. From left are Kelly Bollig ’02 of Sun Prairie, Wis.; Becca Darnick ’02 of Milwaukee; April Rydz ’02 of Tampa, Fla.; Laura Clark ’02 of Appleton, Wis., and Jodi Missak ’00 of Tampa, Fla.

Weight Equipment from CHN

The College received a number of pieces of weight-training and fitness equipment from Community Health Network which closed its Proformance facility in Ripon and opened a rehabilitation center in a clinic elsewhere in town. While faculty and staff of the College have access to the use of the equipment, CHN employees are also allowed to use the weight room equipment in the Storzer Physical Education Center. As part of the partnership with CHN, the College will work with CHN’s Dr. James M. Williams to sponsor and promote community seminars related to health, wellness and lifestyle changes. Moving the equipment into Storzer are, from left, Matt Kok ’95, an assistant football coach; Eric Nee ’05 of Cottage Grove, Wis.; Tony Falk ’06 of Pearl City, Ill.; Chad Lisowe ’04 of Chilton, Wis.; and Director of Student Activities and Orientation David Sarnowski.

Ripon Relatives

Judy Koehler

Peoples ’83 of Longmont, Colo., left, and current Ripon student Chris Klimek ’06 found out they were distant relatives during a recent family reunion in Independence, Wis. The two figured out they are second cousins, once removed — Judy’s grandmother and Chris’ great-grandmother were sisters who grew up in Independence, Chris’ hometown.

Tom Caestecker Named Honorary Life Trustee

Tom Caestecker, center, was named an Honorary Life Trustee late last year. He served on the Board of Trustees from 1985-2002 and has been a generous benefactor to the College. Among his gifts to Ripon are the Caestecker Wing for the Fine Arts to the C.J. Rodman Center and the endowed Caestecker Fine Arts Series. He also funded the college’s Celebration of Ripon College and the inauguration of Paul Ranslow in 1996, the Sesquicentennial in 2001 and the inauguration of David C. Joyce as Ripon’s 12th president. From left are David Williams, former interim president; Caestecker; and Sam Pickard ’55, then chair of the Board of Trustees. Ric Damm photo

Pi Kappa Delta Board Visits Hall of Fame

Ripon President David Joyce welcomed members of the board of directors of the Pi Kappa Delta national forensic honorary to campus last summer, including the organization’s president Susan Millsap, associate professor and director of forensics at Otterbein College in Ohio. In the front row, from left, are Tomeka Robinson, McNeese University in Louisiana; Helen Karchner, Ursinus College in Pennsylvania; Sandra Alspach, Ferris State University in Michigan; Millsap; and Tina Wheeler, Webster University in Missouri. In the back row, from left, are Bill Hill, University of North Carolina-Charlotte; Tom Huebner, Carson-Newman College in Tennessee; Joyce; Glenda Treadaway, Appalachian State University in North Carolina; Shannon Dyer, Southwest Baptist University in Missouri; Nina-Jo Moore, Appalachian State University; and Joyce Krueger, secretary of Pi Kappa Delta’s national office in Ripon, Wis. The College has hosted the Pi Kappa Delta national hall of fame in the Kresge Little Theatre in East Hall since 1996.

‘Ride for the Ribbon’

New Ripon President David C. Joyce and his wife, Lynne, participated in a 1,000-mile bike ride from North Carolina to Boston to raise funds for cancer research, cancer awareness and students touched by cancer. Along the way, the Joyces visited with several Ripon alumni.

Above, at the kickoff in Misenheimer, N.C., home of Pfeiffer University, one of David Joyce’s alma maters, Greg Dunn ’68 greeted the new president. At right, in Virginia, outside of Washington, D.C., Christy Schwengel ’97, left, and Tom Reinecke ’68 greeted the Joyces.

Choraliers Show Draws Crowd

The Choraliers, a coed singing group on campus, attracted a large crowd of students to its annual spring variety show. Above, the Ripon College Dance Team performs as one of nearly two dozen acts.

Sal De Los Angeles ’05 photo

Golden R Class of 1953

In the front row, from left, are Betterae Elleson Ihssen, Frances Kelly Tester, Mary Holyoke Fuchs, Elizabeth Butcher Fox, Ann Franklyn Forest, Anne Barber Hallock, Patricia Jenkins Steaffens, Alice Simpelaar Jensen, Lynne and David Joyce, Carol Simpelaar Mathis, Blanche Bartizal Babcock, Bernice Gardner Zamzow, Joan Hurley Van Zoeren, Patricia Cozart Kossoris, Dorothea Wichmann Henry and Jirina Hrazdilova Emerson. In the second row, from left, are Suzanne Lambert Marvin, Francis Blaise, William Easter, Robert Henry, Merle Schotanus,

William “John” Griswold, Kenneth Jacobs, Richard Cozad, Ronald Sterr, Robert Eickstedt and Joseph Robert Peters. In the third row, from left, are, Adolph Hansen, Charles Ochs, Kenneth Fenske, Warren Yukon, Gerald Kossoris, James Niederer, James Ryan. In the fourth row, from left, are Russell Bremner, Andy Palm, Charles Van Zoeren, Charles Schwartz, Ronald Balej, Elijah Wayne Black, Roger Murbach and Charles Brintlinger. In the back row, from left, are Karen and Dave Williams, Arthur Wong, David Cheney, Arthur Schlesinger, Richard Hallock and John Fuchs.

Earl Zamzow ’50 relates memories of his college days to Jessica Owens ’05. Owens participated in a ProCollege research program involving oral history. Nine alumni were interviewed and the recordings will be stored in the college archives.

The wet weather didn’t prevent 23 runners and one walker from participating in the annual fun run/walk. Mark Nolan ’03, third from right in front, set a new record for the men with a time of 17:43. Lori Stich Zimmerman ’91, second from left in front, came in second at 18:31. David Griffiths ’58, front left, was the oldest alumnus and Julie Kacmarcik ’02, with trophy in second row, was the second oldest alumna to participate in the run.