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Memory Project Founder Receives Distinguished Alumni Award: Ben Schumaker
Memory Project Founder Receives Distinguished Alumni Award: Ben Schumaker

Ben Schumaker received the School of Social Work’s 2018 Distinguished Alumni Award. Ben is the founder of The Memory Project, a nonprofit organization that he started while studying psychology and social work at UW-Madison. The Memory Project invites high school art students to create portraits of youth around the world who have faced substantial challenges, such as violence, disasters, extreme poverty, neglect, and loss of parents. Since 2004, the Memory Project has created and distributed more than 100,000 portraits to children in 43 countries.
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Stanley Frey ’85 was named Honeywell’s Distinguished Technologist for 2022 at the annual Honeywell Technology Symposium.
John Rumpf ’79 retired from Baird as director of corporate communications on January 3, 2023, after more than two decades at the financial services firm.
Patrick D. McNally ’99 was elected president of Borgelt, Powell, Peterson & Frauen, S.C., a Milwaukee-based law firm specializing in civil litigation defense.
William Ribelin passed away November 14, 2022 in Spanish Fort, Alabama. Bill was born October 1, 1924, in Oxnard, California and grew up in in Riverside, California.
Stanley Frey ’85 was named Honeywell’s Distinguished Technologist for 2022 at the annual Honeywell Technology Symposium.
John Rumpf ’79 retired from Baird as director of corporate communications on January 3, 2023, after more than two decades at the financial services firm.
Patrick D. McNally ’99 was elected president of Borgelt, Powell, Peterson & Frauen, S.C., a Milwaukee-based law firm specializing in civil litigation defense.
William Ribelin passed away November 14, 2022 in Spanish Fort, Alabama. Bill was born October 1, 1924, in Oxnard, California and grew up in in Riverside, California.
Stanley Frey ’85 was named Honeywell’s Distinguished Technologist for 2022 at the annual Honeywell Technology Symposium.
John Rumpf ’79 retired from Baird as director of corporate communications on January 3, 2023, after more than two decades at the financial services firm.
Patrick D. McNally ’99 was elected president of Borgelt, Powell, Peterson & Frauen, S.C., a Milwaukee-based law firm specializing in civil litigation defense.
William Ribelin passed away November 14, 2022 in Spanish Fort, Alabama. Bill was born October 1, 1924, in Oxnard, California and grew up in in Riverside, California.