Category: Alumni
Portrait of a Ripon College founder donated to art collection
An 1883 oil on canvas painting of Ripon College founder Jehdeiah Bowen has been donated to the College by Erika Doss ’78 and Geoffrey Thrumston ’78 of South Bend, Indiana. The artist is early Wisconsin painter Mark R. Harrison. The portrait is now hanging in the Ripon College Museum in West Hall. Thrumston is a […]
Posted by Dale Devries in Alumni, Archives, Funding and gifts.
Ripon College welcomes Blaine E. Gibson ’81 to the Board of Trustees
This week, Ripon College is honoring and welcoming the new members of the Board of Trustees. The board will meet on campus this week. Blaine E. Gibson ’81 of Grafton, Wisconsin, has been elected as a new member of the Ripon College Board of Trustees, effective June 5, 2021. He is vice-president-financial advisor, RBC Wealth […]
Posted by Dale Devries in Alumni.
Ripon College welcomes Cameron Klein ’21 to the Board of Trustees
This week, Ripon College is honoring and welcoming the new members of the Board of Trustees. The board will meet on campus this week. Cameron Klein ’21 of Clinton, Wisconsin, was elected as a Ripon College Special Graduate Trustee by students of the College. He will serve a two-year term. Klein majored in business management […]
Posted by Dale Devries in Administration, Alumni.
Ripon College welcomes Kenneth R. Pinckney ’81 to the Board of Trustees
This week, Ripon College is honoring and welcoming the new members of the Board of Trustees. The board will meet on campus this week. Kenneth R. Pinckney ’81 of Glendale, Wisconsin, has been elected an Alumni Trustee of Ripon College as a member of the Class of 2024. Ken is a finance professional with more […]
Posted by Dale Devries in Administration, Alumni.
Ripon College welcomes Dante A.C. Houston ’01 to the Board of Trustees
This week, Ripon College is honoring and welcoming the new members of the Board of Trustees. The board will meet on campus this week. Dante A. C. Houston ‘01 of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, has been elected as a Trustee of Ripon College, effective July 1, 2021. He is the client delivery manager at AMN Healthcare. Houston […]
Posted by Dale Devries in Administration, Alumni.
Ripon College welcomes Alice Gallagher Archabal ’89 to the Board of Trustees
This week, Ripon College is honoring and welcoming the new members of the Board of Trustees. The board will meet on campus this week. Alice Gallagher Archabal ’89 of Northbrook, Illinois, has been elected a member of the Board of Trustees, Class of 2024, effective Oct. 2, 2021. She is vice president of market strategy […]
Posted by Dale Devries in Administration, Alumni.
Ripon College welcomes Sejal V. Shah ’96 to the Board of Trustees
This week, Ripon College is honoring and welcoming the new members of the Board of Trustees. The board will meet on campus this week. Sejal V. Shah ’96 of South Barrington, Illinois, has been elected to the Ripon College Board of Trustees, effective Dec. 8, 2020. He is the chief executive officer of TotalMed Inc. […]
Posted by Dale Devries in Administration, Alumni.
Alumni Association Board of Directors meets this week
The fall meeting of the Alumni Association Board of Directors is set for Sept. 24-25 on campus and in person! New Alumni Board members who begin their term this month are: Shawn Blessing ’94 of Eden Prairie, Minnesota Jodi Gibson ’89 of Milwaukee, Wisconsin JJ Grinde ’16 of Ripon, Wisconsin Gisela Ortega ’12 of Milwaukee, […]
Posted by Dale Devries in Alumni.
Ripon College President Zach Messitte to leave in 2022
Ripon College President Zach Messitte announced today that he will leave his position at the end of the fall 2021 semester and return to his hometown of Washington, D.C. Messitte became the 13th president of the 170-year-old institution in 2012. “I have loved being the president of Ripon College and feel honored that the Board […]
Posted by Dale Devries in Academics, Administration, Alumni, Faculty, Office of the President, Staff, Student.
Mary Jane Bumby ’52 honored for work protecting Big Green Lake
Mary Jane Bumby ’52 of Green Lake, Wisconsin, recently was honored with a Watershed Hero Award from the Green Lake Association. The program recognizes community leaders dedicated to protecting Big Green Lake. Bumby is one of Wisconsin’s longest-serving citizen scientists. An article in the Ripon Commonwealth states: “In 1971, she completed her master’s degree by […]
Posted by Dale Devries in Alumni.
Angelique Gianas Fong ’95 honored as 21st Duck of the Anaheim Ducks
A new video honoring Angelique Gianas Fong ’95 of Mission Viejo, California, has been posted by the Anaheim Ducks, a professional team that competes in the Western Conference of the National Hockey League. Each season, the team creates a spot on their opening night roster for the 21st Duck, honoring a fan “who embodies characteristics […]
Posted by Dale Devries in Alumni.
Two championship football teams to hold reunion Saturday
A reunion of the Red Hawks’ 1996 and 2001 Midwest Conference Championship teams will be held Saturday, Sept. 18. Both teams will be honored at halftime of the football game which begins at 1 p.m. against Cornell College of Mount Vernon, Iowa. Ripon’s 1996 team finished with a 9-1 record, en route to capturing head […]
Posted by Dale Devries in Alumni, Athletics News.
First-year brings family connections, quilt to her Ripon experience
When Chase Polyak ’25 of Lombard, Illinois, starts at Ripon College as a freshman this fall, she brings with her some touching family connections. She is a Legacy student as her maternal grandfather is John Robertson ’68. And she is bringing with her a very special Ripon College quilt made by her paternal great-aunt, Nancy […]
Posted by Dale Devries in Alumni, Student.
19th-century heliogravure print donated to Ripon’s art collection
A 19th-century heliogravure print has been donated to Ripon College by Alan Leonard ’86 and his wife, Brenda, of Cape May, New Jersey. The print is made after Rembrandt van Rijn’s “Presentation in the Temple in the Dark Manner,” c.1654. It is now hanging in the Resource Center of C.J. Rodman Center for the Arts. […]
Posted by Dale Devries in Alumni, Fine Arts.
Brad Alberts ’92 featured in article detailing his management of the Dallas Stars
“How Brad Alberts is Making Dallas a Hockey Town” is published in the August 2021 issue of D Magazine of Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas. Alberts ’92 rose from an entry-level job selling tickets for the Dallas Stars hockey team to president and CEO. The article details how Alberts helped rebuild the teams’ core business after a […]
Posted by Dale Devries in Alumni.
Jessie Lillis ’13 parlays college interests into founding of a theatre company
Seeds of interest sown at Ripon College have culminated in the inaugural 2021 Mackinac Island Shakespeare Festival in Michigan, running through Aug. 29. Jessie Lillis ’13 is a cofounder of the Starling Shakespeare Company which is hosting the festival. She is a native of Coldwater, Michigan. At Ripon, she majored in communication with a minor […]
Posted by Dale Devries in Alumni.
Class of 2020 celebrates long-overdue Commencement
It was a long time coming. A few dozen members of the Class of 2020 came back together Sunday, Aug. 8, for an eagerly anticipated and long-overdue celebration of their graduation from Ripon College. Their original Commencement ceremony was cancelled in May 2020 because of the COVID-19 pandemic. Rainy conditions necessitated moving the ceremony into […]
Posted by Dale Devries in Alumni, Commencement, Student.
Ripon College helps alumni take note of Make-A-Will Month
For Tracy Maher ’91, Ripon College’s FreeWill offering provided a fast and easy way to cross one major item off her to-do list. “After I saw a notice from Ripon announcing the FreeWill offering, I realized that I really needed to make a will,” Maher says. “It was super easy to do. I just followed […]
Posted by Dale Devries in Alumni, Funding and gifts.
Gary Yerkey ’66 reflects on how historic march led to Voting Rights Act of 1965
“The first time I made ‘good trouble’”, a reflective piece written by Gary Yerkey ’66 of Washington, D.C., was published today, Aug. 2, in The Christian Science Monitor. The essay is related to Yerkey’s participation, along with other Ripon students and the Rev. Herman Jerome “Jerry” Thompson, then the College chaplain, in the historic Selma-to-Montgomery […]
Posted by Dale Devries in Alumni.
William Penterman ’18 wins special election for 37th Assembly District
Republican William Penterman ’18 of Columbus, Wisconsin, was elected to District 37 of the Wisconsin State Assembly in a special election held July 13. His term will end in January 2023. The district covers southwestern Dodge County and parts of northern Jefferson County and eastern Columbia County. Penterman is a U.S. Army Reserve member who […]
Posted by Dale Devries in Alumni.