Pictured above: ’18 Jordan Fremstad, of La Crosse, is the 5 p.m. anchor and multimedia journalist for WKBT News 8 Now in La Crosse.
’65 Kay (Klusmeyer) Falcus (BAE), of Fox Lake, Illinois, retired from teaching art in 1999 and lived in Osage Beach, Missouri for six years, Summerfield, Florida for 15 years and recently moved to Illinois to be closer to family.
Jay Williams
’65 Jay Williams (BS), of Hot Springs Village, Arkansas, retired as group manager of the Criminal Investigation Division of the Internal Revenue Service.
’67 David Oertle (BS), of Australia, one of seven founders of Sprint Telecommunications, has been named the Random Lake High School Distinguished Alumni Award winner for 2020. He graduated as valedictorian of the RLHS class of 1963.
’72 Kathy Zastrow (BS), of Fitchburg, is a realtor with eXp Realty.
’80 Patricia Bacon (MSE), of Green Bay, retired as a teacher in 2004 from the Appleton Area School District.
’80 Jay Zahn (BS), of Sturgeon Bay, will retire at the end of the year as Door County Treasurer after three decades in the office.
’83 Wayne Krueger (BS), of Oshkosh, owned and operated Wayne’s Piggly Wiggly in Winneconne for 21 years. The store will be under new ownership in September.
Barbara Van Haren
’83 Barbara Van Haren (BS) and ’87 (MSE) of Muskego, is the Assistant State Superintendent for the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction. When Carolyn Stanford Taylor was named Wisconsin State Superintendent in January 2019, Van Haren was appointed to her previous role and serves as a member of her cabinet.
’87 Richard Pues (BBA), of Waukesha, is a lecturer at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater.
Painting by Victoria Rauenhorst
’87 Victoria (Engler) Rauenhorst (BFA), of Olivia, Minnesota is an artist specializing in painting and drawing.
’90 Trevy McDonald (BA), of Durham, North Carolina, is the inaugural Director of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion for the Hussman School of Journalism and Media at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the Julian Scheer Term Associate Professor.
’92 Dan Mella (BSE), of Plymouth and principal of Plymouth High School, has been named new superintendent of the Plymouth School District.
Dan Tester
’92 Dan Tester (BS), of Oshkosh, celebrated his 10th anniversary as a caregiver for the mentally ill at Villa Hope Group Home in Appleton.
’94 Nicole (Callies) Auxier (BS), of Oshkosh, is a doctor of Audiology at Agnesian Healthcare-SSM Health in Fond du Lac.
’94 Carrie Naparalla (BSE), of Ripon, has been named by the Waupaca School Board as the principal at Chain Exploration Center.
Michael Hanson
’95 Michael D. Hanson (BS), of Sun Prairie, is a Colonel in the United States Army National Guard, and graduated from the United States Army War College at Carlisle, Pennsylvania with a master’s degree in Strategic Studies in July.
’98 Michael Pica (BSE), of Wautoma, is a physical education teacher in the Wautoma School District and just completed his 20th year of teaching in the district.
’98 Mary Ross (MSE), of Edgerton, retired from the Janesville School District where she was school counselor and instructional manager at Parker High School. She worked in the district for 22 years.
’05 Clint Carlson (BS), of Denver, Colorado relocated back to the United States after living in India and Turkey for seven years to begin a new role as the program manager of Digital Education and Academic Technology at the University of Colorado Medical Campus.
’05 Logan Dixon (BS) and ’16 (MBA), of Madison, is a strategy and program management consultant with Smart Solutions.
’07 Amanda Nawrot (BSN), of Chesapeake, Virginia, earned a masters degree in nursing education in 2010 from Walden University. She is nursing program associate instructor at Riverside College of Health Careers in Newport News, Virginia.
’09 Danielle (Olsen) Hellenbrand (BSE), of Mazomanie, is strategy and development administrator at Park Bank in Madison.
’10 Peter Christensen (BS), of San Diego, California, is owner/founder of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.
’11 Jean (Westerhaus) Bartz (BA), of Wisconsin Dells, is a Regional Property Manager with Oakbrook Corporation of Madison and oversees a portfolio of apartment communities throughout Wisconsin. She is also managing broker of Bartz Realty, LLC and is running as an Independent to represent District 41 in the Wisconsin State Assembly.
’11 Michelle (Pahl) Gossen (BS), of Abrams, is office manager at A G Excavating, Inc., in Green Bay.
’14 Nicholas Bogdonas (BS), of Rockford, Illinois, is a probation officer for Dekalb County in Sycamore, Illinois.
’15 Michelle Cecil (BA), of Columbus, Ohio, was appointed as an outreach manager at Central Ohio Diabetes Association at Lifecare Alliance. In this role she will establish new relationships with community partners, build a support network of those living with diabetes, create programming, and assist with the summer camp for children with diabetes at Camp Hamwi.
Emily and Joseph Schwartz
’16 Emily (Ruck) Schwartz (BSW) and Joseph Schwartz ’15 (BS), of Neenah, have been married for almost three years and recently adopted a puppy named Murphy.
’18 Jordan Fremstad (BA), of La Crosse, is the 5 p.m. anchor and multimedia journalist for WKBT News 8 Now in La Crosse.
’18 Dexter Smith (BBA), of Two Rivers, is a new agent at the Sheboygan Falls State Farm Insurance office.
’18 Rob Turner (MSE), of Neenah, is an Omro High School science teacher who coached the student team that won the Samsung Solve for Tomorrow National Competition. As a national winner the team won $50,000 in Samsung technology for their school.