UW-P Alumni

It's Cold Outside and there's Chili Inside!

This year is the sixth annual Chili Cook-off sponsored by the Parkside Employee Alumni Chapter.  This Fun Filled event will take place Monday, February 11 at Noon in Main Place!

I encourage ANY alumni to participate...we would Love to try YOUR chili...or, come taste what our campus chefs are dishing out!  Either way, you support this group and their efforts to beautify our campus!

If you'd like to share your special recipe and support a great cause, you can register online at:

http://uwp.edu/~knautz/chilicookoff/

Basketball Recap

Wow!  I swear to you...I have absolutely no influence over UW-P basketball players.  You're all going to start thinking I fix these games!  I don't...it's just that serendipity kicking in again, and again, and again!

We had a GREAT day at the SAC today!  THANK YOU to the 100+ alumni and families that attended today and enjoyed food, fun, special treats AND two Fabulous basketball games! 

If you're not already signed up for the March 1 'Alumni Day at the Basketball Game', now is the time!  Email me (to the right) or call 595-2443 to RSVP.  The first 150 get a special gift and there will be more prize drawings and more food...and, I'm sure, MORE Great basketball!  It's the last game of the season, so we'll want to go out with a Bang!  It's also 'Senior Day', so the graduating seniors will be recognized (read:  New Alumni!!!).

Join Us!

On Board

Tuesday was the Annual Meeting of the Alumni Association!

Let me first apologize that you only received the information in the mail ON Tuesday!  Believe me, it was more frustrating for me!  I had the info on this site though, so that's all the more reason to keep watching it!

It was a nice meeting!  We bid farewell to our president of the past four years (and board member for seven!), Ken Schuh.  Ken has put in many miles and countless hours into leading the board and we so appreciate what he has contributed.

The composition of the Board changed overall...the two new board members are Sabrina Morgan '03 and Rachel Scheidegger '03 (Welcome!).  The Executive Team is now President Mike Phegley '84, Vice President Gary Smith '94, Secretary Jim Kramer '79, Treasurer Heather McGee '90!

So....since I seem to be jinxed by the mail monster...PLEASE mark your calendar for the NEXT Annual Meeting of the Alumni Association which will be Tuesday, January 20, 2009!

Lions, Tigers, BEARS...oh yeah!

OK, so maybe I have a thing for bears!

Last week I attended a meeting for the Council of University of Wisconsin System Alumni Directors!  We met at the Wilderness Resort in the Wisconsin Dells!  Always good bear encounters around there!

Anyway, it was great to hear about what's going on in Alumni Relations around the state!

This is a big week around here though...here are some great opportunities for alumni:

Friday, January 25, 2008 ~ 7 p.m.

At the Communication Arts Theatre

Free and open to the public!  For more information contact (262) 595-2731.

Saturday, January 26 ~ Complimentary lunch @ noon, 1 p.m. Women's Game, 3 p.m. Men's Game

Alumni Day at the Basketball Game

Sports and Activities Center (RSVP to university.advancement@uwp.edu or 595-2443)

9th Annual Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration

An evening extravaganza featuring essay and community awards, music and readings.

The Week in Review

Well, we started the week on a crazy note by being narrowly missed by a tornado...it hit a mere eight blocks away! 

Then, we proceeded to have a taste of all four seasons throughout the week...the spring-like tornado, near summer temperatures, a grey, rainy end-of-autumn forest and then a light wintry snow cover! 

What's next?  Who knows!  And, I truly believe that's why we like it here...there's always change, always something different...and things don't always happen when we expect them to!

For me, as a planner and organizer, that's not really my modus operandi, but in some aspects of my life I enjoy surprises...like last week when I ran into Alumna Heidi at the grocery store and was surprised to see Alumnus Jerome on campus since I last knew him to be in Colorado.  Alumnus Manfred also stopped by and we got to chat about how different the campus is since he's been here!

So, yay!, thanks for stopping to chat!  Always great to run into alumni!

Thanks for reading my blog too!  Is there anything special you would like me to 'report' on from here?  Any specific updates I should focus on?  Please, let me know!

Maybe next week could be a little more 'status quo'...I can't take too much excitement!  I have to save it up for our big events on the horizon!  By the way, the RSVPs are streaming in, so email me if you plan to join us!

Happy New Year!

I'm having deja vous!  I think I've started this way before!

You see, in my world there is the 'calendar year', 'fiscal year' and 'academic year'.  Well, OK, that's in a lot of people's worlds, but what I really mean is that I truly live by an academic calendar.  (However, for those of you who ask me how I'm enjoying my 'time off'...there is no official 'time off' for me.  I'm what's considered 'year round' staff, so I use the 'academic calendar' term a little bit loosely...it's really more of a state of mind.  I still get excited when it's 'summer'...even though I still work at that time.)  So, to get back to things, it's really more of a 'new year' for me personally, but not at work.  The 'new year' at work is in September!

So, with that said [ad infinitum, I might say] I want to wish everyone a Very Happy New Year!  I don't have any great words of wisdom and can't share my own 'resolutions' as I'm abandoning that practice, but I hope that you have entered 2008 with a great outlook on all of the possibilities for the year!

I also hope you got a new calendar and will be filling in some important alumni-related dates...

Tuesday, January 22 ~ 6:00pm ~ Alumni Association Annual Meeting in the Galbraith Room

Saturday, January 26 ~ Noon+ ~ Alumni Day at the Basketball Game (part I)

Saturday, March 1 ~ Noon+ ~ Alumni Day at the Basketball Game (part II)

There will be MUCH more!  Watch your mail, watch the web, just keep watching!