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Alumni and Friends: La Follette Notes: Spring 2007
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D.C. area alumni
and friends Save Thursday, November 8, 2007, for a reception 6:30-8 p.m. at the Washington Marriott Hotel, 1221 22nd St N.W., Washington, D.C. Information and to RSVP: alumni@lafollette.wisc.eduu |
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Alumni attend
national conference hosted by La Follette School The La Follette School hosted APPAMs fall 2006 research conference, November 2-4. Read more |
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Economics study group crafts lasting
relationships Alumni (from left) Erin McGrath, Helene Stebbins, Sue Gander, Becca Swartz, Monique Currie and photographer Mary McGreevy formed such close friendships during a La Follette School course in the 1990s that theyve promised each other to get together once a year. Read more ... |
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Oh so chilly La Follette School students and friends took a polar plunge in February to raise money for Special Olympics Wisconsin. Details, plus before and after shots |
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Financial support for La Follette School students from Wisconsin is growing thanks to donations to two special funds.
Alums gifts honor value of La Follette degree
Throughout her career in health-care management, Peggy LeMahieu says
she had an inside track on knowing how public policy influences the business of
health care, thanks to the masters degree she earned from the La Follette
Institute of Public Affairs.
Reception builds network of La Follette School alumni, friends
Business cards and tips on who was hiring flew at the La Follette
School of Public Affairs reception on February 8 at Inn on the Park in Madison.
More than 110 people attended the reception, including 50 alumni and friends of
the school. They enjoyed an evening of conversation and catching up with
classmates.
Alumni News
Alumni around the world are working on tsunami reconstruction, clerking
for court systems, carrying out analysis for nonprofit organizations, having
children and handling governmental affairs for corporations.
Governor names 3 alumni to top posts
Three La Follette School alumni have been appointed to top
positions by Wisconsin Governor Jim Doyle.
Sean Dilweg (1998) is the new commissioner of insurance, and Kevin
Hayden (1984) is the new secretary of the Department of Health and
Family Services. Randy Romanski (1995) is executive assistant at the state Department of Natural
Resources.
La Follette alums collaborate
on California eminent domain reform
Alumni Shelley Curran (class of 1998) and Peter Detwiler (class of 1972)
shared staffing duties for an eminent domain reform bill that passed the
California Legislature in 2006.
Partnership connects faculty research on health care with legislators
La Follette School faculty and students will be analyzing Wisconsins
daunting health-care challenges and providing decision-makers with the best
available evidence for crafting solutions, thanks to an innovative
partnership to forge a stronger link between the worlds of policy-making and
scholarly research.
Student practices international legal affairs via D.C. internship
Jamisen Rueckert got a taste of her dream job last summer and an idea
of what it takes to land it permanently some day, thanks in part to
donations to the La Follette School.
Student presents paper
La Follette School student Jen Blonn gave a paper at the Transportation
Research Board's annual meeting in Washington, D.C., in January. She wrote
the paper, Ethical Considerations in the Transportation Sector: Progress,
Need, and Value, with La Follette School 2000 alum Jason Bittner, deputy
director of the Midwest Regional University Transportation Center at the
University of Wisconsin-Madison.