Award-winning journalist Lee Colony will teach the journalism laboratory course (COM 104) and serve as advisor for The Observer student newspaper. He had worked on the paper when he was a student here in 1985-87. Currently Colony is news editor for the Waukesha Freeman, but he started there in 1998 as the education reporter, covering both the local school district and higher education in the community. Previously Colony worked as an editor and reporter for the Wyoming Tribune-Eagle in Cheyenne, and before that for the Rawlins (WY) Daily Times. He holds a BS in journalism from UW-Oshkosh.
Also with a WY connection, political scientist Joseph Foy went to high school in Cheyenne and to Carroll College in MT but came to the Midwest for his master’s and Ph.D. studies at the University of Notre Dame. He has been a teaching assistant in political science at Notre Dame and an assistant coach for speech and debate. He also taught public speaking at Laramie Community College in summer 1999. Interested in political representation, he most recently has been doing research on the demographic and economic effect of constituency profiles on the vote choices of members of the Congressional Black Caucus.
Math education is a second career for Halpin O’Reilly Hackett, who holds a master’s degree in math from the University of Louisville and taught at UW-Milwaukee last year and at Moraine Valley Community College for the previous four. He also has taught at Northern Illinois University, the University of Cincinnati, the College of Mount St. Joseph, Cincinnati, Northern Kentucky University, and the University of Louisville. A practicing hydrogeologist for 14 years, he worked for the State of Kentucky and U.S. Ecology before starting his own consulting firm. Recently he has been studying German language and linguistics.
John Hoag will teach art classes here this semester. He studied at the Herron School of Art, Indianapolis, and earned a BS in studio art from the University of Southern Indiana and an MFA in painting and drawing from the University of Notre Dame. He has taught at the Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design (MIAD), Upper Iowa University, UW-Milwaukee, Indiana University, the University of Notre Dame, and at the Instituto Technologico Y de Estudios Superiores de Occidente, Guadalajara, Mexico, where he also served an artist-in-residency. He is associated with galleries in Milwaukee (Water Street Gallery) and Jalisco, Mexico.
Alumnus A. Thomas Honeyager will return this fall to teach a geography course. He was a dean’s list student here in 1970-71 and completed his BS in biology with a minor in geography at UW-Whitewater in 1973 and MS in botany at UW-Milwaukee in 1978. He went back for a Ph.D. in geography, specializing in biogeography and writing his dissertation on “The Potential for Timber Wolf Recovery in the Nicolet National Forest and Adjacent Areas.” He has been teaching in the Carroll College department of environmental science/geography since 1995 and works summers at Piala’s Nursery and Garden Center. He taught here in fall 2002 as well.
Joining us as a lecturer here this semester, Jonathan Kasparek earned his Ph.D. in history from UW-Madison in 2003 and since has been teaching at Edgewood College, Madison. He graduated summa cum laude from UW-Superior and took his master’s degree from UW-Madison. Kasparek’s major fields of interest are US history from 1840-1940, US political history, and US reform movements. In addition he’s done some research and writing for Isthmus Architecture, Inc., the Wisconsin Historical Society, and the Max Kade Institute for German-American Studies.
Teaching an engineering graphics course here this semester will be James Krueger, who recently completed an MS in mechanical engineering at UW-Milwaukee. A licensed professional engineer, Krueger graduated from UW-Madison in 1991 and has been working as a design engineer for Falk Corporation since 2000. Before that he did mechanical design for industrial oven-maker Lindberg/Blue M, Watertown, was a product engineer with Svedala Industries, Waukesha, a facilities engineer in the sugar industry with Florida Crystals, Inc., and a co-op, then maintenance engineer for Kohler Company.
A lawyer, geologist and an alumnus of the campus, Jeffrey Kuglitsch will teach the geology courses here this fall. Previously he taught at UW-Eau Claire, UW-Barron County, UW-Milwaukee, Mt. Senario College, and as a graduate teaching assistant at UW-Madison, which conferred his doctoral degree. He earned his BA and MS at UW-Milwaukee and JD at Washington University, St. Louis. Before embarking on a career in teaching geology, he was in private legal practice in Milwaukee from 1977-88. He volunteers as an adjunct curator for geology at the Milwaukee Public Museum.
Amy Kushner will teach two sections of ENG 101 here this fall. She holds an MA in English and graduate certificate in women’s studies from Stony Brook University, NY, and a BA summa cum laude in English from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Last year she taught at UW-Parkside and was an instructor for five years at Stony Brook University. She coordinated special projects – including speeches, reports, and grant-writing – for the president’s office at Stony Brook from 1998-2001.
Leonard Narus taught psychology courses here in 1986-87 and is returning this fall to instruct introductory classes. The clinical director/CEO of Arrowhead Family Counseling, Narus is affiliated with Aurora Psychiatric Hospital and serves on its certified FDA drug study review board. He was a psychologist with the state Department of Health and Social Services from 1979-89 and later became the founding director of Milwaukee’s family court counseling services department. He’s also taught at UW-Milwaukee, UW-Oshkosh, Mansfield State College, Mansfield, PA, and Pennsylvania State University. He graduated from UW-Milwaukee in 1972, received his MA from Wichita State University in 1975, and completed his Ph.D. at Pennsylvania State University in 1980.
Trombonist Thomas Patterson will teach the Jazz History and Appreciation course on campus this fall. Patterson is the fine arts chair and music instructor at Wayland Academy, Beaver Dam, a trombonist with the Beaver Dam Area Orchestra and with the Jack Farina Big Band, and substitute trombonist with the Fox Valley Symphony, Appleton, and the Wisconsin Chamber Orchestra, Madison. He started college at Waubonsee Community College, Sugar Grove, IL, and completed his BA at UW-Whitewater and MM at UW-Madison.
A lecturer in English here this fall, Christine Pavesic began college at McHenry County [Community] College in Crystal Lake, IL, and went for BA, MA, and PhD at Northern Illinois University, Dekalb. For the past several years, she has been teaching at McHenry County College, National-Louis University, and Upper Iowa University. During her graduate studies, she also had been a teaching assistant at Northern Illinois. Pavesic has published one novel, Bond of Fire (Xibris: Philadelphia, 2001), a poem, several short stories, as well as articles on a variety of subjects. She won the 1997 Troubadours’ Short Story Contest.
Lynn Pfeifer started on August 25 as the new administrative assistant in Student Services for student development. She has held a number of clerical and administrative positions over the past 20 years. Pfeifer reports to SUE KALINKA and works in C140, the office next to hers, assisting MARY EDWARDS, ROBIN JENS, Kalinka, and ANNA SAN DIEGO. Once Pfeifer is trained in her new position, her schedule will be 9:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m. Monday-Thursday.
A frequently published poet, Peter Whalen (the nephew of MARTHA JANIS) will teach in the English department this fall. Previously he has taught at Mount Mary College and UW-Milwaukee as well as at the Urban Day Middle School, Milwaukee, where he taught both English and Spanish. Since February 2003 he has been the education coordinator for Woodland Pattern Book Center, Milwaukee. Whalen graduated from the University of Missouri-Columbia and earned both his MA and PhD from UW-Milwaukee in English with a creative writing emphasis. He does some freelance reporting for several newspapers, including the Waukesha Freeman, The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, the Beaver Dam Daily Citizen, and The Shepherd Express. |
