Wisconsin Alumni Association: New Zealand Chapter
Auspiciously, the Kiwi community of Wisconsin alumni is starting with the New Year.
More than 80 UW alumni live in New Zealand today. Many work in academia or are connected with it, while several more have professional or corporate roles, or pursue personal interests.
As we are scattered throughout both islands, starting this chapter aims to create an opportunity for all of us to get together in a virtual way, as well as to actually meet whenever and wherever possible for the pleasure of friendship and the exchange of experiences and ideas.
Functioning as a relational hub, our chapter also intends to be a point of reference and a catalyst for anybody interested in finding out what educational avenues are available thru the University of Wisconsin, along with the personal growth that can come from them.
More than 80 UW alumni live in New Zealand today. Many work in academia or are connected with it, while several more have professional or corporate roles, or pursue personal interests.
As we are scattered throughout both islands, starting this chapter aims to create an opportunity for all of us to get together in a virtual way, as well as to actually meet whenever and wherever possible for the pleasure of friendship and the exchange of experiences and ideas.
Functioning as a relational hub, our chapter also intends to be a point of reference and a catalyst for anybody interested in finding out what educational avenues are available thru the University of Wisconsin, along with the personal growth that can come from them.
Functioning as a relational hub, our chapter also intends to be a point of reference and a catalyst for anybody interested in finding out what educational avenues are available thru the University of Wisconsin, along with the personal growth that can come from them.
Encouraging others to reach for the benefits of overseas studies and research at a first-class institution such as UW and to enjoy cross-cultural integration and a stimulating life change is a goal that I am confident all of us are keen to support. Having reaped the fruits of that decision ourselves, we can now assist other Kiwi students and scholars to make the same rewarding choice.
Since our alumni chapter is starting out, all contributions in terms of content for this website and suggestions for events and activities are very welcome. Please email newzealand@uwalumni.com.
Personal portraits can be interesting and useful: the first two of them can be found below.
As soon as we all become aware that the NZ alumni chapter is up and running, a kick-off dinner will be organised.
Encouraging others to reach for the benefits of overseas studies and research at a first-class institution such as UW and to enjoy cross-cultural integration and a stimulating life change is a goal that I am confident all of us are keen to support. Having reaped the fruits of that decision ourselves, we can now assist other Kiwi students and scholars to make the same rewarding choice.
Since our alumni chapter is starting out, all contributions in terms of content for this website and suggestions for events and activities are very welcome. Please email newzealand@uwalumni.com.
Personal portraits can be interesting and useful: the first two of them can be found below.
As soon as we all become aware that the NZ alumni chapter is up and running, a kick-off dinner will be organised.
Personal Portraits
Margaret Stroud Hixon
Graduated from UW in 1945, BA with honors in English, member of Mortar Board. The degree useful years later: MAT in Language, Literature, and Writing at Reed College, Portland, Oregon. Working career, mostly in Portland, included writer-producer on a Public Schools Radio-TV project; teacher at Portland Community College; writer-producer-director of two documentary films. Retiring, moved to New Zealand because daughter, son, and their families had settled here.
Non-professional interests are travel (lots of it!); music, art, books, nature, and writing (a biography, Salote, Queen of Paradise, published, University of Otago Press, 2000). In Nelson we have started a Unitarian fellowship. I hope the new UW alumni chapter and website may acquaint us with one another, particularly those of our area. A Pan-New Zealand gathering might become possible - in connection with some compelling event?
Arnold Shirek Chamove
I was asked to be a grad student at UW when Harry Harlow came to Colgate U. and saw the research I was doing with monkeys there.
Madison was different from San Francisco where I was raised being more green and rural-feeling but not so different from Colgate U. in up-state New York.
I liked the way different researchers were open to collaboration, and the freedom for grad students to spend money on research. The Winters and Summers were a bit of a shock. My degree allowed me to do research in London and get a top job in Scotland running my own primate unit.
I hope the Web site will allow networking with others in NZ.
Graduated from UW in 1945, BA with honors in English, member of Mortar Board. The degree useful years later: MAT in Language, Literature, and Writing at Reed College, Portland, Oregon. Working career, mostly in Portland, included writer-producer on a Public Schools Radio-TV project; teacher at Portland Community College; writer-producer-director of two documentary films. Retiring, moved to New Zealand because daughter, son, and their families had settled here.
Non-professional interests are travel (lots of it!); music, art, books, nature, and writing (a biography, Salote, Queen of Paradise, published, University of Otago Press, 2000). In Nelson we have started a Unitarian fellowship. I hope the new UW alumni chapter and website may acquaint us with one another, particularly those of our area. A Pan-New Zealand gathering might become possible - in connection with some compelling event?
Arnold Shirek Chamove
I was asked to be a grad student at UW when Harry Harlow came to Colgate U. and saw the research I was doing with monkeys there.
Madison was different from San Francisco where I was raised being more green and rural-feeling but not so different from Colgate U. in up-state New York.
I liked the way different researchers were open to collaboration, and the freedom for grad students to spend money on research. The Winters and Summers were a bit of a shock. My degree allowed me to do research in London and get a top job in Scotland running my own primate unit.
I hope the Web site will allow networking with others in NZ.
