Gregg Calpino BS ’89 is “thrilled to come back home” and re-join SmithGroupJJR as a Principal Landscape Architect in their Madison office and waterfront design studio.
Bridget M. Finke ’04 and Christine A. Rasmussen ’06 have opened Valley Crossing Law, LLC, in Baldwin, Wisconsin, concentrating on estate planning, probate, business and real estate.
Glen Broderick ’67, MS’70, PhD’72 has been awarded an honorary doctorate by the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine and Animal Science at Sverige Lantbruksuniversitat.
Alumnus of UW–Madison, Dr. Walter F. Dabberdt has been honored by the Embassy of Finland in Washington D.C. as Knight, First Class, of the Order of the Lion of Finland, which is bestowed annually in recognition of civic and cultural contributions to the nation.
Suresh Krishna, who earned an MA in Literature from the University of Wisconsin in 1959, was recently featured in Harvard Business School’s Creating Emerging Markets project.
Jean Higbee O’Neill, 100, died at her home in Menomonie on Saturday, September 24, 2016. She was born in La Crosse on August 9, 1916, the second of three daughters of Jesse and Edna Coren Higbee.
The National Senior Games Association (NSGA) visited the swimming competitions for the 2016 Wisconsin Senior Olympics at Shorewood Recreation and Community Services VHE Community Pool to present a Personal Best Award to 85-year-old Don Hoeppner, who is described as “a man who never met a sport he didn’t like.”
Mark Duntemann of Chicago has been named a “True Professional of Arboriculture™” by the International Society of Arboriculture (ISA). The True Professional recognition program honors arborists and tree care professionals for their positive impact on the industry in and around their communities.