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Alumni News — 80s
“A Badger Business Birthday: Chicago Firm Celebrates Ten
Years in Planning and Design,” proclaimed a spring news release
from the Lakota Group, a planning and landscape architecture firm
co-founded and co-owned by John LaMotte, Jr. MS'80
and Scott Freres '86. LaMotte has kept his
ties to the UW's Urban and Regional Planning program strong,
and considers UW Professors Jerry Kaufman (emeritus);
Steve Born MS'68, PhD'70; and Jack
Huddleston his mentors. Freres met his spouse, Andrea Laufer
Freres '86, when they were UW freshmen, and he helped
to refurbish the Memorial Union Terrace as part of the UW Campus
Planning Office as a senior. Daniel Grove '98
joined Lakota in 2000 to “increase the Badger population”
among the other Big Ten grads in the firm.
Daniel Piette '80 writes that the short
version of his alumni news is that he was named CEO of Houston-based
OpenSpirit, a software firm specializing in oil and gas middleware.
The long version includes that he was, most recently, a business
unit manager at Input/Output.
So legendary is this event that Hollywood patterned The Cannonball
Run after it. What is it? The annual Tire Rack Cannonball/One Lap
of America road race, of course! Kohler, Wisconsin, resident Mary
Lou Haen '82 — half of Elkhart Lake's
Road America team — drove a 2002 Corvette in this four-thousand-mile,
seven-day competition in May. Haen, Road America's marketing
and promotions director, is on the board of WAA's Sheboygan
County alumni chapter.
On March 25, Kevin Carroll '84 became the
Reverend Deacon Kevin Carroll in an ordination ceremony in Milwaukee.
He plans to be ordained a priest — and become Father
Carroll — in the Episcopal Church later this year. In June,
he began serving St. Mark's Episcopal Church in Milwaukee
as its assistant rector. Very best wishes!
The Wisconsin society of the American Institute of Architects
(AIA) has given its top tribute, the 2003 AIA Wisconsin Golden Award,
to Horst Lobe MA'84. From 1965, when Lobe
joined the UW's Department of Planning and Construction, until
his 1995 retirement, he was one of the principal architects of the
UW-Madison campus. Lobe, also the owner of his own Madison architectural
practice, has served on the city's Urban Design Commission
for twenty-one years.
The consulting engineering firm of Graef, Anhalt, Schloemer &
Associates sent a batch of Badger news from its Milwaukee office:
Loei Badreddine '86, MS'88, a structural
project manager, has been elected a new principal. Newly elected
associates include Chief Financial Officer Timothy Robinson
'78; Brian Schneider '84, MBA'87,
an environmental engineer; and Patrick Kressin '95,
a landscape architect.
In military service news, U.S. Marine Corps Reserve Major
Mark Bannach '86 was called to active duty to support
Operation Enduring Freedom while assigned to the Bulk Fuel Company
B, based in Green Bay, Wisconsin. Navy Lieutenant Commanders Frederic
Sheehy '89 and Kristofer Zimmerman '89
returned this spring from six-month deployments to the Arabian Gulf
aboard the guided missile cruiser USS Mobile Bay, home
ported in San Diego. And Marine Corps Second Lieutenant Alexandra
Vogel '02 has graduated from the Combat Engineer
Officer Course held at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina.
If you read Baseline Magazine, you're probably
familiar with its “Hands On” section, written by the
publication's technology editor, Sean Gallagher '86
of Baltimore. American Business Media recognized his work recently
with a Jesse H. Neal National Business Journalism Award.
Two cool things about David Zanzig '86:
he's living in Luxembourg, and the Goodyear Tire & Rubber
Company recently named him a Distinguished Corporate Inventor (as
well as its Inventor of the Year in 1999). In Luxembourg, Zanzig
is overseeing product development in Europe, Asia, the Middle East,
and Africa. Oh, and two more cool things: he's a past president
of WAA's Akron/Cleveland alumni chapter and received WAA's
Sparkplug Award in 1995.
Indiana University Professor Curtis Bonk MS'87,
PhD'89 writes, “Lately I've been
running around the globe teaching college faculty, K–12 teachers,
military personnel, and corporate trainers how to teach on the Web.”
As a result, he's recently won two state and one national
award and was promoted to full professor. Bonk is also the founder
and president of CourseShare and SurveyShare.
Only 344 individuals in the world — and just three in Wisconsin
— have what Kent Bruden '88 has: oncology
specialty board certification. Since Bruden, a pharmacist at Gunderson
Lutheran in La Crosse, Wisconsin, may have been too humble to share
this special news, we thank Pat Jefferson Bruden '55
of Madison for doing so.
Rosario Sánchez '88 is the new principal
of Milwaukee's Nativity Jesuit Middle School, an inner-city,
private, boys' school that serves a mission of “educating
Hispanic youth for Christian leadership and service.” Sánchez
has worked with the school for seven years, and now, at its helm,
orchestrates a year-round schedule of full days of classes; required
after-school activities; mandatory evening study halls; and a five-week,
residential summer camp.
Bob Wood '89, the chief of staff for Secretary
Tommy Thompson '63, JD'66, announced
in May that he was leaving the U.S. Department of Health and Human
Services to become VP and director of state affairs with the public
affairs firm Barbour Griffith & Rogers. Wood has worked with
Thompson since 1994. He lives in Alexandria, Virginia.
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