Ripon College in the news

• In late March and early April, numerous outlets across the country featured Ripon College as part of a collaboration of private and public schools in Wisconsin offering e-tutoring services to hundreds of K-12 students in seven states.

Reunions to be celebrated in 2021

All 2020 reunion classes will be celebrated in 2021 with the corresponding 2021 reunion classes. For example, classes of 2015 and 2016 will celebrate their fifth reunions together, and classes of 1970 and 1971 will celebrate their 50ths. 2020 award winners and Hall of Fame inductees will be honored at the 1851 Awards Dinner program on Friday, June 25, 2021.

The 2020 Doc Weiske ‘50 Memorial Golf Scramble has been rescheduled for Friday, Sept. 25, 2020, at Mascoutin Golf Club in Berlin, Wisconsin. All proceeds will directly benefit Red Hawks Athletics.

Registration and sponsorship opportunities are available at Ripon.edu/Golf.

The 2021 golf outing will take place Friday, June 25, 2021, as originally scheduled. Further details as they develop will be available at ripon.edu/alumni-weekend.

2020 Alumni Association Awards

DISTINGUISHED ALUMNI CITATION

• Ruth Anne Gero Adams ’85 of Clemmons, North Carolina, career achievements, service to community

• James P. Danky ’70 of Stoughton, Wisconsin, career achievements

• Jon A. Fasanelli-Cawelti ’75 of Muscatine, Iowa, career achievements

• William C. Quistorf ’80 of Everett, Washington, career achievements, service to community

OUTSTANDING YOUNG ALUMNI AWARD

• Sarah M. Anderson ’10 of Washington, D.C., academic and career achievements

• Lucy A. Burgchardt ’10 of Bettendorf, Iowa, academic and career achievements

ATHLETIC HALL OF FAME

• Abigail Williams Budzynski ’98 of Lombard, Illinois, cross country, track and field

• Todd W. Ciesielczyk ’87, football, wrestling, track and field (presented posthumously)

• Aaron B. Johnson ’03 of Ripon, Wisconsin, baseball

• Troy M. Youngbauer ’96 of Neenah, Wisconsin, football

• Mohammad Navid Nafisi Bahabadi ’22 was featured Jan. 15, 2020, in the Ripon Commonwealth Press newspaper. He discussed recent tensions between the United States and his home country of Iran. He is studying physics and math.

• Christopher Allen ’99 of Appleton, Wisconsin, was featured Jan. 29, 2020, on WLUK-TV, Green Bay. He is the new president/CEO of Fox Communities Credit Union.

• “Al Jarreau: The Most Gifted,” a personal recollection of the life and career of the late jazz/pop vocalist Al Jarreau ’62, appeared March 10, 2020, in The Berlin Spectator in Germany. Jarreau would have turned 80 years old March 12.

• First-year Mikayla Flyte and her family were featured nationally April 5, 2020, on the “CBS This Morning” television group. The segment, “Rural America Braces for Virus,” was centered in Wautoma, Wisconsin, and featured Adam and Carolyn Flyte, farmers in Coloma. Members of the Flyte family, including Mikayla, wore Ripon apparel.

• In weekly radio interviews since mid-March, Paul Schoofs, professor of economics emeritus, has discussed a variety of economic aspects of the COVID-19 pandemic. The interviews air on sister stations WMDC-FM and WFDL-AM based in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin. The series will continue through the summer.

• An article by Daniel Mikesell ’14 appeared in the SAIS Observer June 12, 2020. “Education and Leadership during a Pandemic” looks at leadership styles and common goals of Ripon College and Johns Hopkins University-Nanjing University Center in Nanjing China, where Mikesell is a graduate student.

• Austin Wenker ’05 of El Dorado, Wisconsin, was featured in the Oshkosh Northwestern newspaper June 17, 2020. He has opened Tempo Music Studio and Art Gallery in downtown Oshkosh.

• Marty Farrell, professor of politics and government emeritus, spoke June 22, 2020, on sister stations WMDC-FM and WFDL-AM. The subject was former advisor John Bolton’s new book relating to President Donald Trump and its possible impact on the presidential election.

• U.S. Vice President Mike Pence made a private campaign appearance at Ripon College July 17, 2020. His appearance and remarks received considerable notice in social media, print and broadcast media across the country.

• Professor of Biology Mark Kainz was profiled July 22, 2020, on WLUK-TV, Fox 11 News. Kainz worked over the summer as a contact investigator for COVID-19 for Winnebago County Public Health near Ripon College.