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William J. Woolley and book cover

Book by William J. Woolley receives national recognition

Creating the Modern Army: Citizen Soldiers and the American Way of War, 1919-1939, a book by Professor Emeritus of History William J. Woolley, has been selected by The Army Historical Foundation as the winner of the 2022 Army Foundation Distinguished Writing Award for Institutional/Functional History. The book was published in 2022 by the University Press […]

ROTC cadets in skills testing along a snowy path

ROTC cadets participate in Northern Warfare Challenge

Three Ripon College cadets were among a team of five cadets representing the Fox Valley Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC) Battalion at the Northern Warfare Challenge Feb. 24-25 at Fort McCoy. The Fox Valley Battalion is based at the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh. They are Nathan Crenshaw ’25 of Bangor, Wisconsin; Jacob Lange ’23 of Vail, […]

Howard Dayle Balliett '39 and Marilynn Bruns Balliett '41

1941 attack on Pearl Harbor: Howard Dayle Balliett ’39, Marilynn Bruns Balliett ’41 were there

Dec. 7, 1941, was declared “a date which will live in infamy” by U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt after the Empire of Japan’s attack on the American naval base at Pearl Harbor in the Territory of Hawaii. American ships and aircraft were destroyed and more than 2,400 civilians and military personnel were killed. Howard Dayle […]

Rhett Cunningham '22

CPP grant allows Rhett Cunningham ’22 to learn inner workings of campaign

Rhett Cunningham ’22 of Ripon, Wisconsin, gained experience working with a primary election campaign over the summer with assistance from a CPP Fellowship Grant for student interns in public policy or politics from the Center for Politics and the People at Ripon College. He worked for the Committee to Elect Luke Dretske. Dretske ’21 was […]

Composite photo of Ripon College 2019 ROTC Cadets

Ripon’s ROTC unit will commission five, celebrate 100 years

The Fox Valley Battalion of ROTC, of which the Ripon Red Hawks Company is a part, will hold its spring commissioning ceremony at 3 p.m., Friday, May 24, in the field house at Willmore Center. Graduated commissionees will be sworn in as second lieutenants in the U.S. Army. Those from Ripon College are Nathan Faucett […]

Gary Yerkey ’66 publishes book about military aviator Gen. Caleb V. Haynes

Gary Yerkey ’66 of Washington, D.C., published his newest book, A Pilot’s Pilot: Gen. Caleb V. Haynes and the Rise of American Air Power, 1917-1944, earlier this year. The biography covers the life of General Caleb V. Hayes, one of the “giants of US military aviation.” Yerkey describes General Hayes as “a true American military […]

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Ripon No. 1 in state for how much graduates earn, according to U.S. Department of Education

Ripon College has been named the No. 1 school in Wisconsin whose grads earn the most in mean wages 10 years after graduation. The study, using data collected by the United States Department of Education, was published this week by Zippia, a new website dedicated to helping recent graduates with their career choices. The report […]