Alumni Events
Our new BuzzNet Connector web page gives you access to an Alumni
Forum for posting messages and reading messages from others, and an
Alumni Chat Room to chat live with friends and fellow alumni.
Go to the BuzzNet Connector.
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Join the BuzzNet volunteers!
Help the UW-Superior Alumni Association reach its goal of recruiting100 new BuzzNet members! Have fun, reconnect with old friends and help your university. Read more about BuzzNet.
A limited number of seats remain
for this trip.
Rome: January 3-10, 2009 Join the Alumni
Travel Program on an eight-day Rome Winter Getaway with an
optional four-day extension to the historic island of Malta.
Get Yellowjacket Gear Shopping for an alumnus? Got a student attending UW-Superior? Want to show your true colors? Get Yellowjacket gear through the UW-Superior Bookstore. Shop online for more than 100 clothing and gifts items featuring the university name, colors and Buzz the Yellowjacket mascot. Go to the bookstore's secure website.
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IMPACT: UW-Superior is wealth generator in local economy
The University of Wisconsin-Superior generates approximately $41.2 million
in spending and income for Superior and Douglas County, and is responsible for
sustaining about 785 full- and part-time jobs for the local economy, according
to a new economic impact study commissioned by the UW-Superior Foundation with
technical assistance from the UW-Superior Alumni Association.
Read the news story
and full study.
Eat a steak and help Yellowjacket men's basketball on Nov. 1
Show your support for the Yellowjacket men's basketball program by attending
the Steak Fry fundraiser Nov. 1 in the Health & Wellness Center at UW-Superior.
Come by yourself or reserve a table for you and your friends.
Read more.
Former Yellowjacket wrestler Bill McCreary to enter state wrestling hall of fame
Bill McCreary, a Yellowjacket wrestling standout from the early 1960s and
former high school wrestling coach, will be inducted into the Wisconsin
Wrestling Coaches Asociation's Hall of Fame on Nov. 7 in a ceremony in Green
Bay. Bill is featured in the Beloit Daily News.
Read more.
New web link makes it easy to buy your Yellowjacket license plates
We've added
a link to this page's navigation menu that takes you to the Wisconsin
Department of Transportation web page for specialty license plates. The
University License Plates program enables Wisconsin vehicle owners to purchase
auto, mobile home and truck plates bearing the image of Buzz, the UW-Superior
Yellowjacket team mascot. An additional, tax-deductible fee for each plate sold
goes toward a fund that provides a scholarship to UW-Superior students.
Read more.
UW-Superior alumnus to retire after more than 23 years of leading Wisconsin high
school sports
Douglas Chickering, ME '71, announced he will retire next summer after more
than 23 years as executive director of the Wisconsin Interscholastic Athletic
Association. He's only the fourth director in the association's 113-year history
of organizing and leading Wisconsin's high school sports programs.
Read more.
Recalling Paul Newman's 1968 visit to UW-Superior
In the wake of actor Paul Newman's death, Aethan Hart, a photojournalist
for KARE television in the Twin Cities, recalls Newman's visit
to UW-Superior in 1968 to campaign for presidential candidate Eugene McCarthy.
Hart talks about how seeing the actor in packed Gates Gym sparked his interest
in politics and photojournalism. He includes two photos that he shot that day
with his first camera.
Read his blog. Read more about Newman's visit, read the
reminiscences of alumni Julie Demgen, Avram Segall and Frank Fitzpatrick, and see two more
photos in our
Photo Gallery.
UW-Superior Alumni Association names Don Shippar its Distinguished Alumnus for
2008
Don Shippar, chairman, president and chief executive officer of Duluth-based
ALLETE has been named Distinguished Alumnus for 2008 by the UW-Superior Alumni
Association.
Read
more.
Alumni Association names new award for Edward and Betty Kossak, presents them
with first award
The UW-Superior Alumni Association is naming its new service award for Ed and
Betty Kossak, a Superior couple who both graduated from the university and
taught for many years in local schools. Association Chair Dave Anderson on Sept.
25 presented the first award to Ed and Betty.
Read more.
Instructor, alumnus write and perform political satire Oct. 9-11 and Oct.
16-18
Class of '87 alumnus Brian Matuszak's Rubber Chicken Theatre presents the
political satire "Bushed," written by Bart Sutter, senior lecturer in
UW-Superior's English Department. Details are on the
Rubber Chicken
website.
Recent grads form Young Alumni Chapter
Recent graduates from across the country have formed the Young Alumni
affinity chapter through the UW-Superior Alumni Association. The Young Alumni
Chapter is aimed at current students and alumni who have graduated within the
past 10 years. The chapter will focus its efforts on providing professional
networking and mentoring opportunities. It may also implement a lecture series
that brings UW-Superior alumni back to campus to advise students on career
matters and encourage mentoring.
Read more and find out how you
can be part of the new chapter!
Alumnus Fritz Scholder's work to be subject of Smithsonian exhibits starting
Nov. 1
Artwork by the late Fritz Scholder, who attended UW-Superior as a freshman
in 1956-1957 before his family moved to the Southwest, will be the subject of a
comprehensive exhibit by the National Museum of the American Indian in
Washington, D.C., and its George Gustav Heye Center in New York. More than 135
pieces from his 40-year career will be featured. In its news release, the NMAI
described Scholder as "one of the most transformative artists of the last half
century." Scholder took basic art courses at UW-Superior and recalled in his
online biography studying with Art Kruk, Jim Grittner and Richard Gorski. In
1993, the university presented Scholder with an honorary doctor of humane
letters degree in recognition of his career achievements. Both NMAI exhibitions begin Nov. 1, ending May 17, 2009, in New York and Aug. 16,
2009, in Washington.
Learn more on the NMAI website.
Would you like to get in touch with your friends from college? Here's how we can help:
The fall edition of Superior Alumni is at the printer and will be
mailed later this month. We are now gathering news for Winter Edition. We
(and your friends from campus) want to hear from you! Please send us your
news -- new jobs or promotions, new homes, community and church work, recent
travels, new children or grandchildren, marriages, awards -- and we will pass it
along through the Classmates section of Superior Alumni. Just fill out the convenient Update Your Alumni Information
form and we'll do the rest.