Category: Alumni
Life After Ripon – Karena Schroeder ’15
Chapter 4: A Final Word [Editor’s Note: Raymond Allen ’15, Karena Schroeder ’15, and Madeline Poullette ’15 are writing rotating monthly entries for the Ripon College Newsletter chronicling their post-graduation experiences. We hope you enjoy their perspectives on Life After Ripon!] Greetings! It hardly seems possible that, as of writing this, it is less than […]
Posted by Dale Devries in Alumni, Student.
Evelyn Kain’s work to be featured at alumna’s gallery in Madison starting May 6
Professor of Art Emerita Evelyn Kain will have work shown beginning Friday, May 6, at Bare Knuckle Arts, 1949 Winnebago St., Madison, Wisconsin. The opening will run from 5-9 p.m. and is in conjunction with the local Spring Gallery Night. Refreshments will be served, and Kain will be available to talk about her art. Kain […]
Posted by Dale Devries in Alumni, Faculty.
A Life Well Lived: Donald Williams ’42 remains true to Ripon College
Donald Williams ’42, age 95, grew up on a farm near Fond du Lac, just 20 miles from Ripon College, and his family was of limited means. During the 1930s, Ripon College was offering a scholarship program based on a comprehensive exam, and Williams was able to take advantage of that to get an education. […]
Posted by Dale Devries in Alumni.
Life at Ripon — Chuchen Tan ’16
Chapter 4: Cherishing Time [Editor’s Note: Chuchen Tan ’16, Sara Driebel ’16, and Jacob Sahr ’16 are writing rotating monthly entries for the Ripon College Newsletter chronicling their senior year experiences. We hope you enjoy their perspectives on Life At Ripon!] Happy April everyone! As of this moment, Commencement is just a little more than […]
Posted by Dale Devries in Alumni, Student.
Life After Ripon — Raymond Allen ’15
Chapter 4: Decisions [Editor’s Note: Raymond Allen ’15, Karena Schroeder ’15, and Madeline Poullette ’15 are writing rotating monthly entries for the Ripon College Newsletter chronicling their post-graduation experiences. We hope you enjoy their perspectives on Life After Ripon!] Circa 1,851 days post-zombie outbreak… You sprint down the corridor, burst into the weapons storage room […]
Posted by Dale Devries in Alumni, Student.
Congressional Gold Medal presented to 1965 ‘foot soldiers,’ including four representatives of Ripon College
The Rev. Jerry Thompson, a former professor of religion and chaplain of Ripon College, and three former Ripon College students were among those recently awarded a collective Congressional Gold Medal — the nation’s highest civilian award, along with the Presidential Medal of Freedom — in recognition of their participation in the Selma-to-Montgomery Voting Rights March […]
Posted by Dale Devries in Alumni, Faculty.
Paper publication a ‘huge milestone’ for Ray Allen ’15 and advancement of zebrafish colonies
“Publishing a paper is a huge milestone that I pictured being far away, so the fact it’s official is still hard for me to fully grasp,” says Ray Allen ’15 of Lac du Flambeau, Wisconsin. The paper, co-written by Assistant Professor of Biology Barbara Sisson and Professor of Biology Bob Wallace, focuses on zebrafish, something […]
Posted by Dale Devries in Alumni, Faculty, McNair, Research, Student.
Ripon College has another alumna earning a National Science Foundation honor
Christine Anhalt-Depies ’09 of Madison, Wisconsin, is another Ripon College alumna to earn an honorable mention in the 2016 National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship awards. She placed in the field of ecology and is studying wildlife ecology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Posted by Dale Devries in Alumni.
Postdoctoral researcher Vanessa Lamb ’03 working on international environmental issues
Environmental issues in Southeast Asia are the focus of postdoctoral researcher Vanessa Lamb ’03 of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Lamb first traveled to Thailand after graduation and stayed for six months. “Professor (George ‘Skip’) Wittler at Ripon College first connected me with an internship in Bangkok, Thailand, at the end of my degree,” she says. “I […]
Posted by Dale Devries in Alumni, Research.
Kreikemeier ’03 experiencing the world through teaching assignments
“Ever since I studied abroad my junior year at Ripon, I put it on my bucket list that I wanted to live and work in a foreign country,” says Melissa Kreikemeier ’03. “A couple years ago, I realized that if I was really going to do it, I needed to do it now.” Kreikemeier, already […]
Posted by Dale Devries in Alumni.
Russo Family Endowed Scholarship aims to reduce student debt
“I attribute much of my success to the liberal arts education I received at Ripon,” says Richard Russo ’76 of East Grand Rapids, Michigan, a member of the Ripon College Alumni Board of Directors. Russo and his wife, Kathy, (who did not attend Ripon), have been giving back to the College for more than 30 […]
Posted by Dale Devries in Alumni, Funding, Funding and gifts.
Legendary player, coach “Doc” Weiske dies at age 86
Kermit “Doc” Weiske ’50 of Ripon, Wisconsin, died Thursday, March 17, 2016. He served Ripon College in numerous capacities, most notably as coach of men’s basketball, for many years. As a student at Ripon, Weiske played football, basketball and track. His individual basketball career scoring total of 1,188 points, earned him the nickname “Mr. Basketball” […]
Posted by Dale Devries in Alumni, Athletics News, Uncategorized.
Overseas student-teaching broadens student’s outlook
Student-teaching abroad changed her outlook for Ariel Biener ’14 of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Although she currently is working to get her teaching certificate, that wasn’t her focus when the first-generation college student first started at Ripon College. “Studying early childhood education was not a thought in my mind,” she says. She originally planned to study environmental […]
Posted by Dale Devries in Alumni.
Life At Ripon – Jacob Sahr ’16
Chapter 3: People and Connections [Editor’s Note: Chuchen Tan ’16, Sara Driebel ’16, and Jacob Sahr ’16 are writing rotating monthly entries for the Ripon College Newsletter chronicling their senior year experiences. We hope you enjoy their perspectives on Life At Ripon!] Let’s look at some numbers: 0.2 years; 2.7 months; 11.4 weeks; 79 days; […]
Posted by Dale Devries in Alumni, Student.
Life After Ripon – Madeline Poullette ’15
Chapter 3: Travel and Museum Plans [Editor’s Note: Raymond Allen ’15, Karena Schroeder ’15, and Madeline Poullette ’15 are writing rotating monthly entries for the Ripon College Newsletter chronicling their post-graduation experiences. We hope you enjoy their perspectives on Life After Ripon!] Happy March! Since my last blog post, I finished my first semester of […]
Posted by Dale Devries in Alumni, Student.
Charlie Saponara ’94 pursues sports career as assistant general manager
“Working in sports was always something that interested me growing up,” says Charlie Saponara ’94 of Visalia, California. “I’ve been a baseball fan for as long as I can remember and I played the game from Little League through college, so the idea of turning that passion into a career was always prevalent for me.” […]
Posted by Dale Devries in Alumni.
Newly published book by alumna delves into detective fiction, authors’ lives
Books have played a vital role in the life of Karen Huston Karydes ’68. Karydes, who turns 70 at the end of March, now has published a book of her own, an adaptation of the dissertation she wrote while getting her Ph.D. in her 60s. Since graduating from Ripon, Karydes received a master’s in English […]
Posted by Dale Devries in Alumni.
An open mind led to a career working with animals for Michelle Benedict ’94
As an aquarist at Dolphin Quest Oahu in Hawaii, Michelle Benedict ’94 is responsible for the well-being, care and training of more than 100 animals representing more than 30 species. She provides a suitable habitat, water quality and social structure, and researches and creates diets. “I’ve always loved science, biology specifically, and there was no […]
Posted by Dale Devries in Admission, Alumni.
David Rockwell ’15 is using hip-hop to stem the flow of a violent culture
By founding Rapping Up Conflict Inc., David Rockwell ’15 is striving for change in his home town of Rockford, Illinois, and advocating against street violence. This summer he piloted the program, which aims to solve conflict via spoken-word poetry and hip-hop. Rockwell hopes to change the image that many view hip-hop as part of a […]
Posted by Dale Devries in Alumni.
Life After Ripon – Karena Schroeder ’15
Chapter 3: We Made It [Editor’s Note: Raymond Allen ’15, Karena Schroeder ’15, and Madeline Poullette ’15 are writing rotating monthly entries for the Ripon College Newsletter chronicling their post-graduation experiences. We hope you enjoy their perspectives on Life After Ripon!] Greetings! I hope the winter months have been treating you all very well. There […]
Posted by Dale Devries in Alumni, Student.