Mather of Oshkosh will receive the award from Chancellor John E. Kerrigan during the morning ceremony beginning at 9 a.m. at Kolf Sports Center, 785 High Ave.
“Jim Mather has been an exceptionally strong community leader,” said Kerrigan. “His actions and leadership enhanced the quality of life in our community. He is most deserving of this special honor.”
“I'm overwhelmed and honored to receive this award,” said Mather, an advocate for the community and the University.
Mather served on the Oshkosh Common Council from 1977-91, including two years as mayor. In 1987, Mather and then-Chancellor Edward M. Penson co-founded the Oshkosh Community Human Relations Council. The council assumed a proactive role in addressing issues concerning racial and cultural intolerance, and providing educational opportunities that encourage community understanding.
Mather, who continues to co-chair the council, has spoken out for diversity and understanding. While acknowledging that progress has been made, he isn't content to rest on past achievements.
The police department and the schools have been supportive of the group's efforts.
"With racism or ethnic concerns, the place to begin is in the schools and in the early grades," he said. "I don't believe people are born to hate. We teach them that."
Mather worked for the Department of Vocational Rehabilitation for more than 30 years, and served as district director from 1972 until his February 1999 retirement.
In that position, he encouraged disabled individuals to go on to college and made certain they had access to whatever aid they needed.
"I've seen so many people with a multitude of problems become successfully employed and financially independent," he said. "Their success made them feel good about themselves."
"Universities and post-secondary institutions are the cultural and educational backbone of the community," he said. "They provide many activities and an ambiance a community needs to take advantage of."
Likewise, a university can benefit from the community, Mather said.
Mather has been active in Oshkosh for decades. He served as chairman of the Oshkosh Housing Authority from 1982-91, and since his retirement, has been named to the board of directors for the Oshkosh Animal Shelter. He is involved in some subcommittees of the Oshkosh Symphony and continues to advise the Oshkosh Area School District on building accessibility issues.
Mather received a bachelor's degree in journalism from Indiana University in 1956. He went on to get two graduate degrees — a master of science degree in education from Purdue University in 1961 and a master of science degree in rehabilitation counseling from UW-Milwaukee in 1969.
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The ceremony for students in the College of Letters and Science is at 9 a.m. The ceremony for students in the colleges of Business Administration, Education and Human Services, and Nursing is at 2 p.m.
Nearly 1,200 students are candidates for graduate and undergraduate degrees. That includes approximately 215 graduate students and 960 undergraduate students.
Student speakers include a finance and marketing major from Campbellsport who has run his own home-based business since 1996 and just last month was naturalized as a U.S. citizen. A native of Dublin, Ireland, Justin Latham is president of the university’s chapter of Pi Sigma Epsilon, a national sales and marketing association. He is co-founder and past treasurer of the Wisconsin Home-Based Business Association. Latham will speak at the 2 p.m. ceremony.
The student speaker for the 9 a.m. ceremony is Bill Nelson of De Pere, who is graduating with a double major in political science and philosophy. Nelson was international president of the Model Organization of American States and vice president of Pi Sigma Epsilon. Nelson plans to attend the University of Belgrano in Argentina this fall.
Faculty speakers for the ceremonies are:
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The students are Amy Gullick and Ann Kay of Mequon; Amy Wendt of Janesville; Cara McCormick of Appleton; James Dembosky of Greendale; Sarah Kitzman of Delavan; Peter Borchardt of Milwaukee; Brett Cooley of Oconomowoc; Katherine Schmidt of Greenfield; Sarah Cummings and Gina Strzelecki of Muskego; and Tracy Anderson of Oak Creek.
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Other speakers included Massachusetts Gov. Paul Cellucci and the foreign minister of Armenia, who was on his way to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization’s 50th anniversary summit in Washington, D.C., April 23-25.
Kalinoski's award-winning play Beast on the Moon is the story of two young survivors of the Armenian Holocaust. Recently staged in Boston, it has been produced some 50 times in the U.S. and has had productions in Greece, France, England, Argentina and Canada.
In his talk Kalinoski drew parallels between what happened in Armenia beginning in 1915 at the hands of the Turks and what is happening today in Kosovo at the hands of the Serbs.
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“It is extremely rare for a school to win three such awards at the regional level in one month,” said Eric Thiede of Kaukauna, president of the UW Oshkosh National Residence Hall Honorary (NRHH).
The NRHH was recognized as the “NRHH Chapter of the Month” by the national organization. NRHH recognizes the top 1 per cent of students living in residence halls on the basis of scholarship, service and programming.
Student Pam Meinholz of Middleton, the community adviser in Breese Hall, was recognized as “Resident Adviser of the Month.” The award recognized her dedication to residence hall life and students. Meinholtz is a first-year adviser.
Michael Crawford was honored for his dedication and commitment to students by being named “Adviser of the Month.” Crawford is in his third year as director of Breese Hall.
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Led by foreign languages instructor Marco Mena, the group will take a course on Central American cultures at the Universidad Nacional in the city of Heredia. The course will be taught in English.
"The students will learn about the history and culture of Central America and Costa Rica in particular," said Mena, a native of Costa Rica.
During their three-week stay, the group will live with host families and travel throughout the country.
"Weekdays they will visit area museums, forts and other historic sites. On weekends they will travel to the country's volcanoes, rain forests and Pacific Coast," said Mena, who is planning a similar trip next spring.
Students in the program are: Cheryl Bieck, New Berlin; Jennifer Boehm, Green Bay; Moira Blaney, Appleton; Taryn Borg, Silver Lake; Michael Colbert, Orland Park, Ill.; Nicholas DelCarlo, Hinsdale, Ill.; Malinda Gardner, Janesville, Brett Johnson, Eden Prairie, Minn., Christopher Kessler, Milwaukee; Ryan McKenna, Madison; Donna Miller, Ripon; Timothy Miller, Appleton; Natasha Pantti, Oshkosh; Shannon Quigley, Madison; Heidi Schafer, Holland, Ill.; Joseph Sheahan, Sharon; Ryan Streblow, Oshkosh; Susan Stuckey, Mequon; Renee Van Drese, Green Bay; Emily Vanden Heuvel, Appleton; and Steven Wirth, Milwaukee.
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The three programs are school counseling, community counseling, and student affairs practice in higher education with an emphasis in college counseling. All were accredited for the maximum period of seven years.
"CACREP is the national standard by which all counselor education programs are judged. To meet that standard means that we are among the best," said Donald Mocker, dean of the College of Education and Human Services.
"Programs receiving accredited status for a seven-year period deserve to be commended for the work that was completed throughout the accreditation process. This is a worthy achievement," said Carol L. Bobby, executive director of CACREP.
Students in CACREP-accredited schools may take the national counselor exam in their senior year. Students in programs not accredited by CACREP must wait two years after graduation to take the exam.
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To graduate as a University Scholar, a student must have a cumulative grade point average of 3.5 (out of a possible 4.0) and a minimum of 19 honors course credits. A student must also complete as a senior either the senior seminar class or an honors thesis/project under the direction of a faculty member.
Students graduating as University Scholars are awarded a medallion to wear at graduation. UW Oshkosh Chancellor John E. Kerrigan presented the medallions at a special reception May 11.
Those graduating as scholars, along with their majors and minors, are: Karen Austin of Appleton, with high honors, majoring in education (Spanish) and minoring in English as a Second Language, English/language arts and bilingual Spanish; Nichole Bartlett of St. Francis, with high honors, majoring in radio-TV-film and minoring in journalism; Patrick Bertrandt of Greenfield, majoring in philosophy and minoring in business administration;
Chantel Buhrow of Weyauwega, with honors, majoring in chemistry; Shane Dammen of Monroe, with majors in geography and computer science; Cari DeDecker of Combined Locks, with highest honors, majoring in elementary education; Heather Evert of Marshfield, with highest honors, majoring in German (secondary education) and minoring in English (secondary education); Laura Kaste of Cadott, majoring in journalism;
Teri Kemppainen of Pelkie, Mich., with honors, majoring in journalism and minoring in wellness promotion; Frances Kliscz of Lublin, with honors, majoring in journalism; Gayle Lenz of Watertown, with high honors, majoring in Spanish (secondary education) and minoring in English as a Second Language, bilingual education and business administration; Heather McFadden of Appleton, with honors, majoring in political science and international studies, minoring in Asian studies;
Scott Michels of Fond du Lac, majoring in mathematics; Andrew O’Brien of Neenah, with high honors, majoring in psychology; Regan Patchin of Portage, majoring in Spanish and minoring in German; Nannette Pawlak of Thorp, with honors, majoring in sociology, minoring in German and religious studies; Matthew Richlen of Milwaukee, with highest honors, majoring in biology, minoring in athletic training;
Nathan Rutz of Oshkosh, with honors, majoring in accounting and finance; Amy Schiefelbein of Reedsburg, with honors, majoring in radio-TV-film; Carol Campbell of Oshkosh, majoring in elementary education, minoring in social science; and Melinda Tietz of Portage, with honors, majoring in elementary education, minoring in social science.
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Another eight will be listed in the 1999 edition of Who’s Who Among Students in American Universities and Colleges, a directory of outstanding student leaders from more than 1,800 institutions of higher learning in the United States and several foreign countries.
The Outstanding Senior award is made on the basis of scholarship, leadership and participation in university activities.
Those in Who’s Who were selected based on academic achievement, service to the community, leadership in extracurricular activities and potential for continued success. The annual directory has been published since 1934.
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Forty-one educators making up teams from 14 institutions will come to UW Oshkosh to discuss science education strategies and how they can be improved to attract new students – particularly women and minorities.
One keynote speaker is Ruth Hubbard, longtime Harvard University biology professor who has studied the sociology of science. She has tried to document the ways in which the questions scientists ask and the answers they accept as true are shaped by their sex, race and class and the social institutions in which they operate.
Partially funded by the National Science Foundation, Women and Science is a UW-System program headquarted at UW Oshkosh.
Many students, particularly women and minorities, are discouraged from study in math and science by competitive or hierarchical teaching strategies, according to program director Heidi Fencl.
“A traditional science class tends to be based in lecture, and traditionally laboratory sections follow procedures that reevaluate what someone else has already done,” Fencl said. “(For) some of these projects, we will take the laboratory section and completely redesign it, so it becomes an exploratory laboratory.”
The program seeks to develop science courses that involve students actively in their learning, Fencl said.
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Carr, a 1997 graduate of Oshkosh West, was one of 28 students chosen from about 1,000 applicants for the competitive national program described by the Princeton Review as one of the top ten internship programs in the country.
His selection is unique because only seniors or recent college graduates are usually awarded the internships.
Carr, who is minoring in business administration, will spend eight weeks this summer working in production management at Buena Vista Television, part of the Walt Disney Co. Buena Vista develops, produces and distributes television programming to broadcasters, cable and satellite operators and the major television networks.
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Participants can choose from three sessions of “Database Design.” Two hands-on workshops will be in Appleton on Tuesday, June 8, and Thursday, June 10. Both will run from 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. There will also be sessions from 5:45 to 9 p.m. Tuesday, June 15, and Thursday, June 17, in Oshkosh.
“Database Design” is for non-technical individuals who regularly manipulate and analyze data and need assistance to improve database design techniques. Managers and information technology professionals will also benefit.
Participants will learn how to organize and structure data in a relational database to best meet individual business needs. Topics will include organizing data and establishing relationships between tables, developing user-friendly forms for accurate and standardized data entry, and generating simple and complex queries and reports in Microsoft Access.
The instructor is George Philip, a UW Oshkosh professor of information systems. A member of the editorial advisory board of Journal of Database Systems, Philip has published articles in many professional journals.
The fee is $295. For more information or to register call (920) 424-2009 or visit the Center's web site at www.ccp.uwosh.edu/events/.
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As part of the university’s Science Outreach Center offerings, practice in biology, chemistry and physical science will be included in the Summer Science (SUMS) workshops.
Science Outreach began offering the chemistry portion of SUMS about 10 years ago under the name “Operation Chemistry.” Other disciplines were added, and this year the UW-System Eisenhower Professional Development Program-funded workshops are grouped under the title “SUMS.”
The workshops are a response to Wisconsin’s push toward increasing “science standards that call for active hands-on inquiry, discovery and learning with kids,” according to Heidi Fencl, UW Oshkosh Science Outreach coordinator.
Fencl is planning the workshops with John Lemberger of the UW Oshkosh College of Education and Human Services.
Most teachers at the elementary and middle school level do not have much experience teaching hands-on science curriculum, Fencl said, and they might have had only limited exposure to science classes at the college level where the focus was on lecture-based instruction.
During the workshops, chemistry lab sections will offer an overview of industrial chemistry including the use of plants to dye eggs and the production of soap. Physical science sections will focus on electricity and magnetism. Biology sections will include field trips to the Heckrodt Wetland Reserve in Menasha and Mosquito Hill Nature Center near New London.
For more information about the SUMS workshops visit the Science Outreach Center Web site, www.uwosh.edu/programs/science_outreach.
Teachers from public and parochial elementary and middle schools in the following communities will attend the workshops: Algoma, Appleton, Auburndale, Berlin, Black Creek, Bonduel, Brandon, Brookfield, Cato, Chilton, Colgate, Denmark, De Pere, Fish Creek, Fond du Lac, Francis Creek, Grafton, Green Bay, Hartford, Hortonville, Hubertus, Kaukauna, Kimberly, Lac du Flambeau, Manawa, Manitowish Waters, Manitowoc, Markesan, Mayville, Menasha, Milwaukee, Necedah, Neenah, Neopit, New London, North Fond du Lac, Omro, Oshkosh, Park Falls, Pine River, Pittsville, Platteville, Port Washington, Portage, Princeton, Random Lake, Readfield, Reedsville, Richland Center, Saukville, Sherwood, Stevens Point, Tigerton, Waukesha, Waupaca, Wausau, Whitefish Bay, Wild Rose and Winneconne.
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The Blowing Rock Stage Company, a professional theater company in Blowing Rock, N.C., will present the world premiere of the musical-comedy Daylight Spirits, Thomas’ translation and adaptation of the classic Chilean play Animas de Dia Claro by Alejandro Sieveking. The production will run from July 28 to Aug. 15.
The play includes seven songs by former members of the Wisconsin folk group Northern Light. Nine other songs were written for the play and include lyrics to seven by Thomas.
The Department of Theatre and Dance at the University of Florida at Gainesville will present The Praying Mantis, a translation of La Mantis Religiosa, also by Sieveking, Oct. 21-31.
The world premiere of that play took place in the Experimental Theatre at UW Oshkosh in September 1986.
The Bridge Theater of Dade County Florida will offer four presentations of Looking Into the Stands, Thomas’ translation of Mirando al Tendido by Venezuelan playwright Rodolfo Santana. The company, which has produced dramatic presentations for National Public Radio, will tour the Miami–Dade Public Library system with the play beginning May 15.
AVATAR: A Passion Drama About the Unknown Years in the Life
of Yeshua of
Nazareth, Thomas’ translation of a work by Puerto Rican author
Roberto Ramos-Perea, will be published by Ediciones Gallo Galante of Puerto
Rico. Both the English and Spanish versions will be released May 25.
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The exhibit titled 5.15.99 will be in the Priebe Art Gallery in Room N102 of the Arts and Communication Center, 926 Woodland Ave. There will be a reception for the artists from 6 to 9 p.m. Saturday, May 15.
The works by Green, Sonnenberg and Wollangk will include ceramic pieces, photographs, drawings and functional design.
The gallery is open from 11:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Monday through Thursday.
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The overall winner among small schools was Valders Middle School.
North Crawford Middle School from Soldiers Grove and Morse Middle School of Milwaukee placed second and third in the overall competition among large and small schools.
Nearly 500 students from nearly 40 middle schools throughout Wisconsin participated in the statewide competition earlier this month. The all-day event included 20 events held outside and in three major buildings at UW Oshkosh.
UW Oshkosh faculty and students and high school teachers from the Oshkosh area supervised the competition in events such as Naked Egg Drop and Mystery Architecture.
As the overall winner, Platteville earned the right to move on to the national Middle School Science Olympiad in Chicago, according to Anne Murphy of the UW Oshkosh Science Outreach Office. The office has sponsored the statewide program for nearly 15 years.
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The awards, given to undergraduate and graduate students for outstanding research and creative and artistic activities, were part of the university’s Celebration of Scholarship Week.
Entries included poster, oral and performance presentations.
Those receiving a $150 Lynn Westbrook Environmental Award are graduate student Tim Allen of Oshkosh for Growth of Edible Fungi on Paper Pulp Waste, and undergraduate student Cynthia Lancaster of Neenah for Assessment of Lake Issues and Management in Wisconsin.
The $150 Clow Award for work in the field of social sciences was given to undergraduate students Lisa Moody of Monroe and Kimberly Andert of Dousman for Confidence Levels in Eyewitness Testimony.
Nineteen undergraduates received $100 awards: Jessica Boesel and Katie Braun of Muskego, Erin Mulhern of Harshaw, Kyle Lentz of Oshkosh and Jeremy Leinberger of Milwaukee for An Integrative Communication Campaign for Toyota’s Echo; Dawn Detlaff and Nikolaus Werner of Oshkosh for Effects of Latency and Birth Order After Induction of Depressed Mood; Mandy Ingram of Madison and Carla Olson of Fond du Lac for Influences of Emotional Environment on Emotion Recognition During Face-in-the-Crowd Effect Task;
Agnes Kecskemeti of Oshkosh for her performance of Max Bruch’s Concerto No. 1 for violin; Cynthia Lancaster of Neenah for Assessment of Lake Issues and Management in Wisconsin; Sara Jane Marquardt of Oshkosh for Effects of Tobacco and Alcohol Use on Perceived Attractiveness, Intelligence and Self-control; Moody and Andert for Confidence Levels in Eyewitness Testimony; Cathy Smith of Oshkosh, Amanda Falkowski of South Milwaukee and Angela Haas of New Berlin for Effects of Physical Attraction on Employee Selection and Participant Memory of Applicant Information; and Rebecca Vogel of Sheboygan and Melissa Henselin of Tigerton for Asking the Right Questions.
Graduate student Marcy LeMieux of Oshkosh received a $100 award for Further Validation of the Wistar Kyoto Rat Strain as a Genetic Animal Model of Depression: Studies of Anhedonia and Food Intake.
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The UW Oshkosh department of journalism is host each year for the event.
Students winning three or more awards are Charlotte Litjens, Holly
Popowski and Becky
Weiss, all of Omro High School; Jessie Bauldry, Sevastopol High School,
Sturgeon Bay; Allison Knoll and Jeff Werner, both of Sheboygan Falls High
School; Ryan Ames, Oshkosh North High School; and Tom Zastrow, Wausau West
High School.
Approximately 675 high school students and advisers involved in school publications attended sessions and workshops led by journalism professionals and educators from throughout northeastern Wisconsin.
Leading the sessions were free-lance writers, students and advisers from northeast Wisconsin high schools and representatives from the Oshkosh Northwestern, Appleton Post-Crescent, Green Bay Press-Gazette, Fond du Lac Reporter, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Wisconsin State Journal, Madison Capital Times, Plymouth Review, Fox Valley Kids, Krause Publications, Ripon Commonwealth Press, WBAY-TV, WLUK-TV, UW-Madison Department of Journalism and Mass Communication, UW Oshkosh, Walsworth Publishing Co., Jostens Inc. and the Oshkosh Police Department.
Schools that participated in the conference were from Colby, Coleman,
De Pere, Fort
Atkinson, Green Bay, Greendale, Berlin, Sturgeon Bay, Kewaskum, Lakeland,
Marshall, Luxemburg-Casco, Marshfield, Neenah, Omro, Oshkosh, Plymouth,
Rhinelander, Ripon, Sheboygan Falls, Sheboygan, Shiocton, Stoughton, Fond
du Lac , Sun Prairie, Waterloo, Wausau, Wauwatosa, Whitefish Bay and Milwaukee.
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The training session will be June 14 through 19 at the American University. It is sponsored by The National Environmental Wire for Students (NEWS).
Students will participate in workshops with environmental journalists, scientists, government officials and representatives of environmental groups.
Bartsch has worked as an intern at Krause Publications, Iola, and as sports editor for the UW Oshkosh Advance-Titan newspaper.
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Both exhibits by the Chinese-born artist are titled “Journey of Silence.”
An award-winning artist, Hu received a bachelor of fine arts degree from Shanghai University in 1986. Leaving China after the government clash with students in Tiananmen Square, he earned a master’s degree in painting from the University of South Dakota in 1993. Hu’s paintings have been featured in galleries worldwide.
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They will leave for Beijing on June 3 and arrive there June 4, the 10th anniversary of the demonstrations in Tiananmen Square.
The project is one of eight approved for funding under a new UW Oshkosh program to expand international opportunities for students, faculty and staff. The Vander Putten International Fund, established with a contribution from a 1961 graduate of UW Oshkosh and supplemented by an anonymous donor, will provide up to $50,000 in funding over each of the next five years for activities to “substantially enhance the international dimensions of the University.”
The Gullickson-Wang trip is the first step in establishing an ongoing faculty exchange program between UW Oshkosh and the Wuhan Conservatory of Music in China.
Gullickson and Wang will arrive at the Wuhan Conservatory June 6. Gullickson is scheduled to return to Oshkosh at the end of June. Wang, a native of China, will remain for several more weeks.