This month, nearly 1,000 former students met at an organized reunion on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus, where there were anti-war demonstrations and student strikes in the late 1960s. NewsHour Weekend Special Correspondent Jeff Greenfield spoke with some of the attendees about their reflections, half a century later.
Noted: When he’s not teeing it up, he’s serving on multiple boards of directors, including UW-Madison’s La Follette School of Public Affairs, and he continues to be the non-executive chairman of MGIC. He’s also one of the family co-owners of the Culver Franchising System Inc., based in Prairie du Sac. Culver’s restaurants are among the hottest franchises in the country. The chain has grown to more than 680 restaurants across 25 states.
In 1965, while a resident at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, he digitized the medical history questionnaire, branching out beyond yes or no answers with follow-up questions.
Noted: Also realize this: Those were mostly Olson’s outside interests. After graduating UW-Madison in 1931, he spent 42 years in Madison’s public schools, including 20 as a science teacher and nearly 23 years as principal of Midvale elementary school.
Noted: Knox holds degrees from UW-Madison and The Juilliard School.
As a resident in neurology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison during the early 1960s, Dr. Slack became intrigued with the possibility that computers could directly “interview” patients, gaining detailed information and valuable insight that could help physicians better treat them.
Noted: Hauser studied at the Layton School of Art in Milwaukee (1927-29), where he developed an interest in sculpture and studied art history at the University of Wisconsin – Madison (1929-30), according to the biography.
According to CBS News, the Dane County Circuit judge sentenced Alec Cook, a self-confessed serial rapist who assaulted numerous women on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus, to three years in prison, with an additional eight years of close supervision and 15 years on the sex offender registry.
Noted: Once upon a time, the new men’s artistic director of Louis Vuitton was just a regular middle-class guy from the Midwest. Abloh went to Boylan Catholic High School. He was an undergrad at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he earned a degree in civil engineering, later receiving his master of architecture from the Illinois Institute of Technology. After a stint spent deejaying, Abloh’s fellow Chicagoan and BFF, Kanye West, put him on the fashion path, and in 2009 he scored an internship at Fendi. Today, Abloh is the first African-American to take on the role of creative head at a European luxury fashion house.
Noted: Bowhan both grew up in Madison and received his undergraduate degree (in sociology) there, at University of Wisconsin-Madison. During this time, his interests in both clothing and shopping were there, but laid dormant; he recalls after-school shopping trips with his mom that turned painful because he was so picky about his clothes. “It was always something I enjoyed in terms of getting my outfits right and looking to stand out,” he says. “But it was never was something I took on as a hobby.”
Noted: In 2007, Roche bought NimbleGen Systems, a Madison maker of molecular biology tools started by University of Wisconsin scientists, for $272.5 million. The next year, Roche acquired Mirus Bio Corp., a Madison biotech firm focused on RNA interference and gene therapies, for $125 million. Roche sold the Mirus Bio assets in 2011.
She was the first African-American woman to graduate from UW’s law school and had a big impact on the university.
Maggie Turnbull is a scientist who is running as an independent candidate. She is an astrobiologist who has worked with NASA on the search for extraterrestrial life. Her work has been profiled on CNN and in On Wisconsin, the University of Wisconsin’s alumni magazine. She has served on the Antigo Common Council and has lived in Madison
Steil is from Janesville and is a member of the University of Wisconsin Board of Regents.
Flashing back to the U.S. political scene of the early 1970s, the country was in revolt amidst the Vietnam War, the Watergate crisis, and an oncoming recession and gas shortage. One of the flash points for protest was liberal college campuses, with the University of Wisconsin-Madison being one of the most vocal.
Fifty years later, the people from 1960s Madison meet again. The Madison Reunion, a brainchild of residents Ben and Judy Sidran, invites former students and teachers to campus this weekend to “revisit old haunts and meet old friends,” according to their website.
But other pursuits will keep Collins active after her reign. Two days after passing on the torch to the next Miss Wisconsin, she is to begin an internship with Channel 27 WKOW and then resume classes at UW-Madison, where she is studying communications.
Noted: One of four corpse flowers at Olbrich, this 16-year-old plant was started by seed from UW-Madison’s “Big Bucky” Titan arum. Consuelo Lopez, an Olbrich volunteer and professor emeritus at UW-Madison, remembered lines of students that wrapped around South Hall and down Bascom Hill when that Titan arum first bloomed in the university’s Botany Greenhouse in June 2001. Some students even wore T-shirts to commemorate the event.
Noted: Isaiah Gordon, who graduated from Golda Meir High School and earned a full ride to the University of Wisconsin-Madison, gave a special shout-out to “Miss Liz” — college and career adviser Elizabeth Mueller — calling her “one of the biggest supporters of my high school career.”
Noted: But Dasal, now a graduate student in pediatric audiology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, knows of the oppression faced by her parents in their native country.
The School for Field Studies in South Caicos sustained heavy damage when Hurricanes Irma and Maria hit back in September. Eight months later, two former UW-Madison students are doing their part to rebuild the center they love.
The Tommy G. Thompson Center on Public Leadership at the University of Wisconsin-Madison won’t be funding any research in its first year of operation, members of its governing board learned Tuesday.
The chicks are named after ice cream flavors from UW-Madison’s Babcock Dairy.
The company also holds vacant land outside its manufacturing campus, and has talked about research and development partnerships with UW-Madison.
Addie Lathers plans to wring every last molecule of knowledge out of her professors at UW-Madison.
Noted: In Assembly District 42, Republican Jon Plumer, a Lodi Town Board member and owner of karate schools, is running against Democrat Ann Groves Lloyd, a Lodi alderwoman and University of Wisconsin-Madison academic adviser.
The Walsh family continues to raise money for vision research at UW-Madison, including work by researcher David Gamm.
After graduating in 1939 from Brigham Young University in his home town, he studied biochemistry at the University of Wisconsin, where he received a master’s degree in 1941 and a doctorate in 1943. He then did postdoctoral research at Stanford University before joining the Navy late in World War II.
Berlin was a graduate of the University of Wisconsin, receiving a Ph.D. in history in 1970. His books included “Generations of Captivity,” ’’Slaves Without Masters” and “Many Thousands Gone: The First Two Centuries of Slavery in North America,” for which he won the Bancroft Prize. He also wrote the introduction for a tie-in book to the acclaimed movie “Twelve Years a Slave,” and was an adviser for HBO’s documentary about former slaves, “Unchained Memories.”
Apgar heeded Whipple’s advice, and spent six months training under Dr. Ralph Waters, who led the first department of anesthesia at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
She was discouraged from continuing her career as a surgeon, which was regarded as a very male discipline at that time, and instead trained in anaesthesiology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison under Dr Ralph Waters, who had established the country’s first dedicated unit. After further study of the field at New York’s Bellevue Hospital, she returned to Columbia as director of its new anaesthesia division, its first female head of department.
Noted: Now Kilo is working on a collaboration with a local artist in Madison, where she used to play basketball for the UW-Madison’s women’s team. She plans to debut her solo mixtape “L.I.A.R. Living In a Reignbow” at the showcase.
Noted: Don and June met at Carroll College in Waukesha, where he studied mathematics and she majored in music. Don continued on to the University of Wisconsin-Madison for his MBA.
In the summer of 2016, University of Wisconsin administrators met with urban- and regional-planning professor Harvey Jacobs to discuss his alleged behavior, according to a letter they sent to Dr. Jacobs in April 2017 that was reviewed by the Journal.
“We’re all staffers,” one person told Sielski, who attended the event. Jenna Webster, a student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who is interning with the Republican National Committee, said she received a mass email from the White House inviting her to attend.
Noted: “It is also a job that is very physical, and you have to work in a refrigerator, which is not everyone’s cup of tea,” he explained. Parajecki is a member of the UW-Madison Meat Cutter Hall of Fame.
Noted: She’d run in college at the University of Wisconsin and, of course, had trained for the running leg of the triathlon. But this was something altogether different. Unlike elite marathoners, Jorgensen didn’t have thousands of miles in her legs. She’d never trained for a marathon, had never run more than 40 miles in a week. After giving birth to a son, Stanley, in August 2017, she would have less than three years to make up all that ground.
Hidden along a side trail of Picnic Point sits a serene beach next to a beach house built to look like it was designed by famed architect Frank Lloyd Wright.
Noted: McMahon, 49, grew up in tiny Hegg, in southern Trempealeau County, where his parents ran the general store. In 1980, he moved with his parents to Botswana on a mission trip. Upon his return, he attended high school at St. John’s Preparatory School in Minnesota. He earned his B.A. from University of Wisconsin-Madison and graduated from Seattle University School of Law School in 2002.
Noted: Ronald V. Wiedenhoeft had gone to St. John’s Military Academy in Delafield and, after graduating from Cornell University, earned a master’s degree in art history from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
LAHORE- The brilliant Urdu language scholar, translator, poet, short-story writer and the editor of The Annual of Urdu Studies, Muhammad Umar Memon passed away on Monday.
From June 14-16, the Madison Reunion will give graying University of Wisconsin alums a taste of their youth at a venue that has symbolized the campus experience for generations: Memorial Union.
Noted: “My focus will be to find the money we need,” said Mr. Urzúa, an affable 62-year-old economics professor with a doctorate from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. (Subscription required.)
Noted: Broekema grew up in Neshkoro, Wisconsin, a town of about 400 people about 90 minutes north of Madison. He graduated from the University of Wisconsin – Madison and moved to New York to pursue a career in fashion journalism. He and his fiance Eric Riley are featured in a “Love first” campaign for J.Crew.
Don Pratt wasn’t supposed to be in a glider soaring over the English Channel in the early morning hours of D-Day, but the University of Wisconsin-Madison alum wanted to be with his men.
Family and friends gathered on the shore of Lake Mendota Thursday evening to remember windsurfer Yu Chen, who died exactly one year ago out on the water. Chen died May 31, 2017, after a collision with a UW Lake Safety boat on Lake Mendota.
Well, that was quick. Darius Feaster, who graduated from Homestead High School in Mequon and played football at the University of Wisconsin, was cut on the first night of the new season of “The Bachelorette” Monday.
“Whenever I feel nervous about anything, I’m like, ’OK, take a step back here and remember that the men who were doing this were your age,’” said Miller, a recent graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Madison with an undergraduate degree in history and a master’s degree in communication sciences and disorders. “Because when I started this, I was 21.”
Noted: Kirk wasn’t exactly sure how to get his bread business started, but then a consultant from the University of Wisconsin–Madison School of Business told him to start with wholesale and get his bread into stores. “She told me to bake some loaves, walk in and ask for [the] manager. [She told me that] any meeting you go to, bring bread,” Kirk says. Soon, loaves of Kirk’s bread could be found on the shelves of the Jenifer Street Market, the Regent Market Co-op and Fresh Market. “I slowly figured it out,” he says.
UW (18-2), the No. 5 seed, will open against Grand Canyon on Saturday in Holly Springs, North Carolina. The rest of the eight-team field includes Oregon, Texas A&M, East Carolina, Penn State, Florida State and Iowa State.
Penny S. Pritzker ’81, former U.S. secretary of Commerce and past Harvard Overseer, and Carolyn A. “Biddy” Martin, president of Amherst College and former chancellor of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, will become the newest members of the Harvard Corporation in July.
University of Wisconsin–Madison alumnus Sergio Fajardo is running for president of the South American country of Colombia. According to a release, Fajardo studied probability theory, earning a master’s degree in mathematics in 1981 and a Ph.D. in mathematics with a minor in economics in 1984.
The results of an annual collaboration between students at UW-Madison and Wisconsin Brewing Co. in Verona has hit store shelves.
RE: FRESH Radler, which began as class projects within the University of Wisconsin – Madison, is now in commercial production and available in stores. RE: FRESH is a blend of real grapefruit soda and a classic lager beer.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Tommy G. Thompson Center on Public Leadership spent a fraction of what was anticipated to bring speakers to UW System campuses in its first year, and left more than one-quarter of its $1.5 million overall in public revenue unbudgeted.
A Madison man who spent years in prison for sexually assaulting a University of Wisconsin-Madison student in an apartment building stairwell will be moving to Fitchburg.
“The Bachelor,” the ABC television dating franchise, seems to be in a love affair with contestants who have Wisconsin ties.
Wanting to share agriculture’s story, she studied strategic communications and broadcast journalism at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. In college, she held officer positions with the Association of Women in Agriculture and Badger Dairy Club. She also founded the university’s first agricultural radio talk show, AgChat.
This State Journal editorial ran on May 20, 1968, two days after firebombs were thrown through a window at a University of Wisconsin administration office, damaging 15,000 undergraduate records. It was two years before the Sterling Hall bombing.
The merits of using stylists for public health is gaining wider recognition, and Perry was featured on the Megyn Kelly show last year. A separate initiative, organized by University of Wisconsin-Madison students and the Latino Health Council, trained five Latino hairstylists to bring up breast cancer awareness with their clients.
