Category: Alumni
Life at Ripon — Sara Driebel ’16
Chapter 1: Preparing for the Semester and the Future [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!] As summer is drawing to a close, I am […]
Posted by Dale Devries in Alumni, Student.
Life After Ripon – Karena Schroeder ’15
Chapter 1: Becoming an Alumna [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 summer! I hope you are all enjoying the beautiful weather wherever this wonderful […]
Posted by Dale Devries in Alumni, Student.
Liz Walsh ’14 earns high honor in international research competition
Liz Walsh ’14, a Ph.D. student at Texas A&M University, received a second-place award for a research project submitted to an international agricultural science competition. More than 9,000 students from 61 countries participated in the Alltech Young Scientist Competition. Walsh, originally from Johnson Creek, Wisconsin, majored in biology and English at Ripon College. Her research […]
Posted by Dale Devries in Alumni, Research.
Alumnus participates in local job fair
Austin Van Treeck ’14 of Sheboygan, Wisconsin, is a workforce development professional for the Sheboygan Country Economic Development Corp. He participated in a private job fair Wednesday to assist workers displaced from the closings of Conagra Foods (Ripon Cookie Factory) and Gredy Foundry in Berlin. “Between the two companies, nearly 500 employees will be losing […]
Posted by Dale Devries in Alumni.
Biology field study opportunities benefit from Marshall’s experience
A student experience at the former Associated Colleges of the Midwest Wilderness Field Station in northern Minnesota revealed a whole new world to Lorilei “Lori” Carson Marshall ’81. “I took a Wetlands Ecology course the summer after my freshman year,” she says. “I went as a suburban kid who had never paddled a canoe much […]
Posted by Dale Devries in Alumni, Funding.
Alumni give $1 million gift to Ripon College to promote study abroad
Ripon College has announced that Thomas ’72 and Suellen “Sudy” Reigle Altholz ’73 will give $1 million to Ripon College to promote study abroad experiences for its students. The gift will help fund scholarships for Ripon students to pursue academic study, research or student teaching opportunities abroad. “The essence of the college experience starts with […]
Posted by Dale Devries in Alumni, Funding.
Student research helped C.J. Thode ’04 decide his career direction
C.J. Thode ’04 is an assistant professor teaching organic chemistry at the College of St. Rose in Albany, New York. While a chemistry student at Ripon College, several research opportunities helped him move forward in his career. The summer after his sophomore year, he researched organic chemistry through a National Science Foundation program at Loyola […]
Posted by Dale Devries in Alumni, Research.
Research broadens world-view for music major Laura Plummer Nielsen ’04
The liberal arts and sciences education she gained at Ripon College and the independent research she did as a student laid a foundation that has led Laura Plummer Nielsen, ’04 to where she is in her life today, Nielsen says. At Ripon, Nielsen was a French and music major, with an emphasis on piano. She […]
Posted by Dale Devries in Alumni, Research.
Thanks for the memories: Linda Mogicato Sasser ’75 gives people’s brain function a boost
Memory health and cognitive function are the focus of Linda Mogicato Sasser ’75 of Bloomingdale, Illinois, and she now is in her second year of running her business, Brain and Memory Health. She speaks and leads workshops about memory health and cognitive function at marketing events and residential retirement communities. After graduation from Ripon College, […]
Posted by Dale Devries in Alumni.
Supporting Ripon financially keeps Kimberly Larson ’08 connected
Ripon College is a special place that she continues to care for, says Kimberly Larson ’08 of Apple Valley, Minnesota. Her devotion and support of the College have earned her recognition as one of the younger members of Ripon College’s 1851 Club — parents, friends and alumni who support the College at leadership levels. This […]
Posted by Dale Devries in Alumni.
Life at Ripon — Chuchen Tan ’16
Chapter 1: The Start of an Eventful Summer [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!] Dear Ripon College Alumni and Friends, A big “Hello” from […]
Posted by Dale Devries in Alumni, Student.
Life After Ripon — Raymond Allen ’15
Chapter 1: Nostalgia [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!] Nostalgia. If you take this word and smash it really hard with a grammar hammer, you’ll […]
Posted by Dale Devries in Alumni, Student.
Army research scientist and Ripon alumnus helps stop Ebola in its tracks
A novel chemical system that kills the Ebola virus on surfaces is being used to sterilize medical equipment and electronic items in the war on Ebola in West Africa. Invented by Dr. Christopher Doona ’86 and fellow researchers at the U.S. Army Natick Soldier Research, Development and Engineering Center in Natick, Massachusetts, this electricity-free, lightweight, […]
Posted by Dale Devries in Alumni.
College professor Tom Buesch ’65 says Ripon College ‘saved’ him
“Ripon saved me. Nobody knows this story, but the story is true,” says Tom Buesch ’65 as he reflects back on his life. All his life, Buesch had been a poor student. As a child, he had to repeat the 5th grade, and his teachers never expected much of him. When he went to Washington […]
Posted by Dale Devries in Alumni.
Parents’ gratitude, employer match boost scholarship funding
Among the many new generous scholarships established as part of the Imagine Tomorrow capital campaign is the Frey/Dahlhauser Trust Scholarship for Physics and Chemistry. The scholarship was created by Eloise and Scott Frey of Racine, Wisconsin, after their son, Josh Frey ’09, graduated with a double major in chemistry and physics. Scott and Eloise Frey, […]
Posted by Dale Devries in Alumni, Imagine Tomorrow.
Life at Ripon — Clarence Sanon ’15
Chapter 4: Reflections of a Red Hawk [Editor’s Note: Clarence Sanon ’15, Rachel Detrie ’15, and Kaitlyn Welzen ’15 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!] Readers, As I close the chapter of my life titled, “The […]
Posted by Dale Devries in Alumni, Student.
Life After Ripon — Ariana Myers ’14
Chapter 4: Reaching Equilibrium [Editor’s Note: Ariana Myers ’14, Nathan Held ’14, and Sophia Kaounas ’14 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!] And so my first whirlwind year at Princeton comes to a close. I can’t believe […]
Posted by Dale Devries in Alumni.
John Heflebower ’73: Bringing laughter to the silver screen
Comedy has heavily influenced the life and career of John Heflebower ’73 of Saint Helena, California. He works as a financial planner, and he also gives comedic presentations to corporate groups about humor and why things are funny. He runs a Facebook humor blog under the name of John Victor, and he is the executive […]
Posted by Dale Devries in Alumni.
Alumna carries on with dream of helping homeless girls in Rwanda, Burundi
While still a student at Ripon College, Ornella Umubyeyi ’13 of Evanston, Illinois, started several initiatives to help poor residents — especially females — in her home country of Rwanda and her mother’s neighboring home county of Burundi. Umubyeyi is the founder and CEO of the nonprofit Soul Survivors International to help people in those […]
Posted by Dale Devries in Alumni, International Students.
Life At Ripon – Rachel Detrie ’15
Chapter 4: Looking Forward, Looking Back [Editor’s Note: Rachel Detrie ’15, Clarence Sanon ’15 , and Kaitlyn Welzen ’15 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!] It is finally May and, as I’m writing this, it is […]
Posted by Dale Devries in Alumni, Student.