While they were students at Ripon College, both Mark Franzen ’83 and Janice Heinz Franzen ’83 conducted research and found the experience to be positive. “We think research can be an important part of a liberal arts education,” Mark Franzen says. “Janice and I both had wonderful relationships with our professors when we were at […]
I arrived in Chicago at the end of July of 1957, to get ready to be enrolled at Ripon College. It was very strict, according to the foreign currency exchange regulations in Japan, to exchange yen to dollar at the time, and so I had only $26 with me when I left Japan. My father […]
Scott Strazzante, a 1986 graduate of Ripon College, will have his work on display Sept. 11 to Oct. 11 in Caestecker Gallery, C.J. Rodman Center for the Arts, on the college campus. Strazzante is a photojournalist for the San Francisco Chronicle and previously worked for the Chicago Tribune and other news sources. His book Common […]
A serendipitous disappointment at Ripon College led to a career choice for Brandi Gaspard Mans ’10 of Minneapolis, Minnesota. Mans got into theatre in high school in Anoka, Minnesota, because some of her friends were doing it. “The theatre bug bit me,” she says, and she received a theatre scholarship to attend Ripon College. However, […]
Julie Sikkink Lee ’88 is a high school history and English teacher at Oregon Episcopal School in Portland, Oregon. She predominantly teaches 9th- and 10th-graders in literature, ancient world history, medieval history and American history. “My favorite part of my school job is watching my students’ faces when something clicks for them and they see […]
Writing in various forms has provided a creative outlet for Ken Luber ’60 of Idyllwild, California, throughout his life. He has written poetry for much of his life, was an English major at Ripon College and was editor of the Ripon College literary magazine, Parallax, during his senior year. He since has written for several […]
“To The Best of Our Knowledge,” an award-winning weekly Wisconsin Public Radio program, has as its technical director Caryl Wheeler Owen ’75 of Verona, Wisconsin. The show, which has been produced for 25 years, is the winner of the 64th annual Peabody Award for radio programming in 2005 and can be heard on more than […]
With a set career goal of working for himself, David Bardwick ’72 of Escondido, California, now owns a successful furniture art gallery in Solana Beach, California, just north of San Diego. His collection of furniture and art is under the name of the David Allan Collection, and it boasts pieces of art from many eastern […]
Rhetorical criticism skills learned as a communication major helped Alison Thiel, a senior from Ripon, Wisconsin, develop findings that display a shift in the dominance of Frederick Jackson Turner’s Frontier Thesis in Western Culture through the pictorial representation of sea turtles by National Geographic. Thiel, who also had a second major in environmental studies, says […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]