Alumni Awards
2023 Distinguished Alumni Awards
2023 Alumni Award Recipients
We are thrilled to celebrate the incredible accomplishments made by our 2023 alumni award recipients during Homecoming weekend, Oct. 27-28, 2023. The UWO Alumni Awards Celebration will be held on Friday, Oct. 27 beginning at 5 p.m. at the Culver Family Welcome Center. The cost is $40 per person and includes dinner.
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2023 Outstanding Young Alumni Awards
Kathryn Golab ’16,
of New Berlin
Clinical Laboratory Utilization Specialist at Wisconsin Diagnostic Laboratory
Brody Karmenzind ’14,
of Chicago, Illinois
Client Partner for Meta (formerly Facebook)
Christiana (Gorchynsky) Trapani ’16,
of Egg Harbor
Owner of Door County Candle Company
2023 Distinguished Alumni Awards
Jeni (Kimmet) Asaba ’05,
of Robbinsdale, Minnesota
Senior Manager of community engagement and advocacy
for Jamf
Teresa (Yulga) Connolly ’87,
of Scottsdale, Arizona
Associate Vice President of
International Delivery Services at Mayo Clinic
Jeffery Gerritt ’78,
of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Pulitzer Prize winning journalist, editor for the
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
John Krajnak ’93,
of Franklin
Park President of
Six Flags Great America
Cheryl Mellenthin ’79,
of Cat Spring, Texas
President of four oil and gas companies and the Mark A. Chapman Foundation, retired neonatal intensive care nurse and animal champion
Maurice Wince ’95,
of Milwaukee
Owner of Sherman Park Grocery
Bryan Wright ’09,
of Butte des Morts
Prevention Educator within the fields of domestic and sexual violence
2023 Outstanding Service Award
Marc Nylen ’91, MSE ’93,
of Oshkosh
Associate Director of Residence Life and
Director of Gruenhagen Conference Center at
UW Oshkosh