Current Wisconsin Lutheran College students and recent graduates are spending four weeks teaching summer school at Risen Savior Lutheran School located in Milwaukee’s Historic Granville community. The WLC students are a part of the Center for Urban Teaching, a program that provides Milwaukee schools (public, charter, independent, and religious) with state certified teachers and future leaders who have the commitment and unique training necessary to be successful in the urban setting.
Tonight Koiné gave a family-oriented concert on Wisconsin Lutheran College’s Quad.
The free event drew a crowd of families, alumni, students, and friends to WLC on a beautiful night.
Children were invited on stage to help with several songs.
Koiné has two WLC alumni: Brian Davison (below) and Seth Bauer.
Joanna Balza, a 2005 graduate of Wisconsin Lutheran College, is a great example of servant leadership in action. As a Peace Corps volunteer, she helped coordinate the trip of a lifetime for 50 students in South Africa this week.
Balza and fellow Peace Corps volunteer Haley McDonough took the students on bus ride to see a U.S. men’s national soccer team practice in Pretoria West as the team prepared for World Cup competition.
Balza said, “It was really exciting for [the students] to meet the players; but for most of these kids, just getting to go on a bus to Pretoria and be given lunch is a huge deal.”
The Appleton, Wisconsin, native is the sister of WLC professor Dr. Robert Balza.
For a complete article on the trip, visit the Peace Corps website or see photos on Facebook.
This morning, Wisconsin Lutheran College’s director of admissions, Craig Swiontek, took time to record a video for the Be a WLC Warrior website.
Behind the camera were WLC students Zachary Beierle (left) Daniel DeCleene, while Eva Donohoo from Public Affairs managed the shoot (and helped with lighting).
Craig’s video isn’t quite finished, but in the meantime, you can see previous footage on the site’s video library
Yes, 3D movies are cool, but they’re expensive. So we hope you can take a free look at the 3D artwork that Wisconsin Lutheran College student Zachary Beierle has on display at the Senior Thesis Exhibition through May 14.
Beierle’s work, along with that of six other students, currently is located in the college’s Center for Arts and Performance.
The exhibition opened April 9 with a reception. Students, professors, family members, and friends viewed the seven exhibits throughout the building:
Being in the Warrior Underground earlier today was good for your health, assuming you were visiting Wisconsin Lutheran College’s Health Fair 2010. The Health Services Office brought in a variety of vendors and agencies to promote fitness and healthy eating and lifestyles.
Learning Curves put a motorcycle in the WU to encourage motorcycle safety. The Wisconsin Athletic Club took over the Wendorff stage for fitness demonstrations.
The Wauwatosa Police Department had students wear Fatal Vision goggles, then tested their ability to walk, catch a ball, or drive remote-control cars.
Thanks to everyone who visited or participated in Health Fair 2010!
Wisconsin Lutheran College hosted the President’s Welcome Luncheon today. The event gave a group of scholarship recipients (future members of WLC’s Class of 2014, we hope) and their parents the opportunity to spend the day on campus, hear from President Daniel Johnson, and meet professors, coaches, and alumni.
In the Campus Center, Warriors volleyball coach Diana Balsiger talked with a prospective student.
Professor James Holman, along with other education professors and students, spoke to potential education majors in the Chapel.
Prior to lunch, Revelation performed for the high school seniors and their parents in the REX.
The college looks forward to welcoming many of these students to campus in August!
Five teams of Wisconsin Lutheran College students are in the final stretch of the Kapco Charitable Challenge: Round 1. The 20-day challenge ends a week from today, then teams will present to a panel of judges on February 16.
Which organizations are benefitting from these teams’ efforts?
Catalyst is supporting Lighthouse Youth Center. Tonight, Catalyst is hosting a benefit concert at 7 p.m. at the Miramar Theatre. All proceeds from the $10 admission will go to the Lighthouse Youth Center.
Project Ripples is supporting Safe Harbor Men’s Shelter. On Saturday, February 13, the team is hosting a “Stuff the Bus” event at Pick ‘n Save, 8151 W. Bluemound Road, Milwaukee, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. For a list of items Project Ripples is collecting, visit the group’s Web site.
Team Effect is supporting La Causa.
Greater Than Us: 1000 dollars, 1000 ways is supporting Children’s Service Society of Wisconsin.
Love to Live. Live to Give. is supporting Above the Clouds.
Please visit the sites of the five teams and learn about their missions. Regardless of which team wins the challenge, many people in greater Milwaukee will be postively affected by the work all the teams have done.
It was a busy afternoon yesterday in the lower level of Wisconsin Lutheran College’s Science Hall as the nursing program hosted an open house in its newly completed nursing lab. Visitors included faculty, staff, students, nurse educators from other area schools, and healthcare professionals.
Nursing students and faculty demonstrated the features of five patient simulators, while visitors could feel the “pulse” on the simulators or listen to the “heartbeat.” The lab also includes six individual patient care areas and workstations. The first class of nursing students is scheduled to graduate from WLC in 2012.
Former WLC president Dr. Timothy Kriewall and his wife, Sally (above left), attended the open house. The Sally and Tim Kriewall Scholarship for Nursing Care Excellence was established upon Dr. Kriewall’s retirement from the college to support, acknowledge, encourage and promote students who choose to enter the nursing field.
Welcome to Day 6 of the Kapco Charitable Challenge, in which five groups of Wisconsin Lutheran College students are competing against one another and against groups from Marquette University and Concordia University Wisconsin. Round 1 will last 20 days before a new challenge is issued for Round 2 to the winning team from each college.
At the Challenge’s kickoff event, held at the Bradley Center, Kapco Metal Stamping’s president Jim Kacmarcik gave each group $1,000 and asked the students to help people in the five-county greater Milwaukee area. He also challenged them to turn that $1,000 into something more. Since the kickoff, the student groups have written mission statements, researched local charities, and begun raising money and making an impact. The students truly embody WLC’s Christian leadership tenet.
Kapco Metal Stamping president Jim Kacmarcik challenges WLC students to make an impact.
Part of Kacmarcik’s challenge to the students was to share their mission statements with as many people as possible, to get the word out. This is where you come in. Please take a moment to read the mission statements of WLC’s five student groups at the bottom of our Charitable Challenge page. There you also can view video from the Challenge kickoff, a photo gallery, and links to the groups’ pages on Facebook and Twitter.
If you are so moved, please share the link to these mission statements with people you know. This not only will help the students in their competition, but ultimately will benefit many people in need in the Milwaukee area.
WLC’s student groups:
Greater Than Us: 1000 dollars, 1000 ways
Team Effect
Catalyst
Love to Live. Live to Give.
Project Ripples
Wisconsin Lutheran College's student participants in 2010 Kapco Charitable Challenge
Wisconsin Lutheran College is pleased to announce its newly redesigned Web site, wlc.edu, a project that gives the college’s Web site a fresh and dynamic design.
The goal of the new look is to offer a vastly improved browsing experience for prospective students, as well as for current students, parents, alumni, friends, faculty, and staff. The site also reflects the vibrant visual appeal of the college’s print publications, and its improved streamlined navigation means users will always be just a click or two away from key information.
The project was completed entirely in-house by a collaboration of campus offices that headed by Vicki Hartig, associate vice president of marketing & communication, and included Chad Lindemann, professor of art, Olya Finnegan, web developer, and Eva McGillivray, web & marketing coordinator. During the redesign development, the site was pre-screened by an on-campus group of students, faculty, and staff, as well as by industry professionals.
“We wanted to create a more current and polished design created through clarity of proportional organization, typography, images, and colors,” says Lindemann. “From early reviews, it appears we’ve accomplished that to a large degree.”
The relaunch of wlc.edu comes within a year of other recent Web site launches for WLC including the my.wlc.edu portal and the admissions microsite, www.beawlcwarrior.com. The last redesign of the Web site was in 2005.
The entire conversion process will be accomplished by the end of February 2010. Visitors are welcome to post comments regarding the redesign here on the Beyond the Bricks blog.
Wisconsin Lutheran College was a destination for many people tonight who were attending a diverse group of events.
Students, parents, and community members turned out for the opening of Studio 8800, a juried student exhibition in the Schlueter Art Gallery.
Studio 8800 is free and open to the public through January 21, 2010.
Members of the Ella Post Society gathered in the Campus Center for dinner. President Daniel Johnson was on hand to greet these friends of the college. Ella Post members then attended a concert by Boni Pueri, the Czech Boys’ Choir, in the Center for Arts and Performance.
Meanwhile, in the Recreation Complex, the women’s basketball team made its season debut playing Northland in the Dunn’s Sporting Goods Tip-Off Tournament.
The tournament continues Saturday with the Warriors playing Ripon College at 1 p.m., followed by UW-Platteville taking on Northland at 3 p.m.
Wisconsin Lutheran College welcomed about 75 prospective students to campus Thursday and Friday for the Fall Visit Days. The high school students toured campus, met with professors and staff, experienced life in the residence halls and sat in on classes during the two-day event.
As part of the Early Childhood Conference under way at Wisconsin Lutheran College, 500 younger-than-college-age students are on campus. Jim Gill performed an entertaining, foot-stomping concert this afternoon for the 4, 5, and 6-year-old crowd in the Recreation Complex. The conference for educators continues tomorrow.
Today Wisconsin Lutheran College welcomed Dr. Paul L. Maier, Russell H. Seibert Professor of Ancient History at Western Michigan University and author of WLC’s 2009 freshman summer reading selection, A Skeleton in God’s Closet.
Maier, a prolific author and a recognized authority on early Christianity and archaeology, discussed the development of his writing career. An engaging speaker, he answered questions on such topics as Pontius Pilate, the Great Fire of Rome, and science and religion. Maier also addressed the Milwaukee Area Biblical Archaeology Society on the WLC campus last night.
Wisconsin Lutheran College was represented at today’s Health Care Forum, which was broadcast live from the Clinical Cancer Center at Froedtert Hospital on Wisconsin Public Radio from 9-11 a.m.
WLC junior Jolema Noel, who interns with WPR, assisted in the organizing of Kathleen Dunn’s Health Care Series. Director of Nursing Rebekah E. Carey, MSN, APNP was also in attendance at the event.
The forum included a panel of speakers from the health care industry, ranging from politicians to insurance companies to hospital administration.
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This morning Wisconsin Lutheran College President Daniel Johnson hosted Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett, Milwaukee Common Council President Willie Hines Jr., and 10th District Alderman Michael Murphy. The group toured WLC’s campus and learned more about the college’s work in urban schools through the Center for Urban Teaching, Pathways to College, and other outreach programs.
During a stop in the Science Hall, Dr. Robert Anderson explained the monitoring that students do on area waterways and WLC’s new collaborative effort with the Milwaukee County Zoo.
Wisconsin Lutheran College is hosting Camp WLC: Heroes for Health this week. Middle-school students from the Milwaukee area are learning about the challenges and rewards of being a nurse, while receiving hands-on training in first-aid and CPR.
The campers, who have a strong interest in science, are exploring healthcare settings and potential career options in the field of nursing. The attendees receive instruction from WLC’s director of nursing Rebekah Carey.
The 23rd annual Wisconsin Lutheran College Roger Fleming Memorial Warrior Golf Invitational welcomed 96 participants to Bristlecone Pines Golf Club in Hartland, Wis., on Monday, July 27. View the golf outing photo gallery.
The team of Gary Drska, Mike Drska, Josh Fischer and Chuck Wierschem combined to shoot a score of 58 to win the outing by one stroke. Dennis Miller, Ben Murphy, Scott Severson and Adam Volbrecht were right behind them with a 59.
This was the first year the outing was in honor of former WLC head men’s golf coach Roger Fleming, the first full-time faculty member called to Wisconsin Lutheran College in 1977. Fleming coached the men’s golf team for 30 seasons before being called to his eternal home on October 2, 2008. Proceeds from the Wisconsin Lutheran College Roger Fleming Memorial Warrior Golf Invitational benefit WLC scholarships and athletics. Mark your calendars for the 24th annual event which will again be held at Bristlecone Pines on Monday, July 26, 2010.
Other contest winners from the day are listed below:
| Longest Putt on #2 | Mike Drska |
| Longest Putt on #18 | David Olson |
| Closest to Pin on #6 | Paul Hartwig |
| Closest to Pin on #17 | Clary Hartwig |
| Closest to Waste Bunker on #7 | Brandon Lehman |
| Long Drive in Fairway on #11 | Steve Ross |
Artist Reginald Baylor spoke to sixth-grade students today at the Pathways to College summer program. Baylor talked about his paintings and what inspires him, then did a slideshow of works by other artists he admires.
Baylor’s work is on display in the Schlueter Art Gallery through July 24. The Pathways to College summer program continues through next week.
