S. Curtis Johnson, Chairman of Diversey Inc. (formerly JohnsonDiversey) held a presentation and Q&A session for students, faculty and staff as a guest of Wisconsin Lutheran College business professor Peter Eppen in the Raabe Theatre today.
 
As part of the fifth generation to lead the Johnson family enterprises, Curt Johnson spoke about the guiding principles of his family business. “Those principles focus on the goodwill of our customers, our employees, our communities and our planet.”

Johnson also shared his family’s film “Carnauba, A Son’s Memoir.” The documentary travels with Johnson, his father, Samuel Curtis Johnson, Jr. , and brother, Fisk Johnson, as they recreated his grandfather’s journey to Brazil in search of carnauba wax in a replica Sikorsky S-38 amphibious plane.

Written by Herbert E. Swayne and directed by Prof. Jan Gompper, The Curse of an Aching Heart (Trapped in a Spider’s Web) is a takeoff on the melodramas that were popular in the late 1800s. Come and boo at the villain and applaud for the hero in this modern treatment of an old-fashioned gay-nineties melodrama. Melody Lane (who will touch your heart like a song) falls into the hands of the villainous Windermere Hightower, who expects her to participate in his criminal schemes. She flees to the None Such Ranch, where she falls in love with the stalwart Lucius Goodenough. Of course, Windermere appears at the ranch and tries to force his attentions on Melody, while also implicating Lucius in a theft. Disguises, dirty deeds, and downright silliness abound in The Curse of an Aching Heart.

The Raabe Theatre is located in the college’s Center for Arts and Performance at 8815 W. Wisconsin Ave. Tickets are $10 adults, $8 seniors and $6 students. To purchase tickets, call the WLC box office at (414) 443-8802 or visit wlc.edu/arts.

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.

Two visitors at the exhibit's opening reception admire the first-place artwork, "Flight."

The first-place woodcut and monoprint artwork is by Lindsay (Patt) Carr ‘07. Heather Huffman’s ‘07 “Chicken in the Woods” took second, and the third-place piece was Carissa (Mulder) Russell’s ‘06 “Monarch Wings.”

Sculptures "Encode/Decode" and "Neural Sculpting" by Anne Wendland '06 are part of the exhibition.

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.

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 celebrated Founders’ Day today! Our original Founders’ Day – the day that marks the date Wisconsin Lutheran College was first incorporated – was January 31, 1973.

Rev. Paul Steinberg, board member and a pastor at St. Marcus, Milwaukee, delivered a Founders’ Day-themed chapel message. Guests, students, faculty, and staff then enjoyed cake and punch in the Warrior Underground while viewing past and present photos of WLC.

Founders’ Day is a great time to reflect on the incredible blessings God has showered upon this college throughout its 37 years of existence.

Stop by during the shop’s regular hours:
Monday-Friday
10 a.m-4 p.m. & 8-10 p.m.

The college will celebrate Founders’ Day on January 29. We’re serving up cake and photo displays in the Warrior Underground between 11:30 a.m. and 1 p.m. Also on Friday, the Door Stop Campus Shop holds its grand opening in the space formerly occupied by the bookstore.

Winterfest is Saturday, January 30, featuring a basketball doubleheader versus Lakeland College. The women’s tip-off is at 1 p.m., followed by the men’s at 3:15 p.m. The first 500 fans at the women’s game will receive a free Once A Warrior, Always A Warrior long-sleeved T-shirt. Then cheer on a high-flying dunk show by the Milwaukee Bucks Rim Rockers, including WLC alumnus Josh Schedler ‘06, during halftime of the men’s contest.

Next week, make plans to attend an open house of the new Nursing Lab on February 3.

Finally, at 6 p.m. on February 5 you are invited to the opening reception for the alumni art exhibition in the Schlueter Art Gallery.

See you soon!

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.