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Robert M. La Follette
School of Public Affairs
1225 Observatory Drive
Madison, WI 53706
Telephone: 608.262.3581
Fax: 608.265.3233
Last updated:
August 18, 2011
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Alumni and Friends: La Follette Notes: Spring 2008
Alum uses collaboration to put food on tables of Chicago’s poor
For Kate Maehr, the summer between her first and second years at the La Follette Institute was a study in contrasts that led her to her position as executive director of the Greater Chicago Food Depository. Read more …
Alumni share career advice with students through speed networking
Lilly Shields, left, and Catherine Hall, center, listen to Maureen Quinn, a 2006 alum and a Wisconsin Legislative Audit Bureau analyst, at a speed-networking session that connected 16 students with 13 alumni for five-minute conversations about careers. Alumni learned about what is going on at their alma mater, shared their experiences and scoped out potential employees. John Montgomery, deputy administrator of the Division of Administrative Services for the Wisconsin Office of the Commissioner of Insurance, says he appreciated meeting students in a relaxed atmosphere before hiring would start. “The gathering enabled us to let students know we’re interested in them and view the La Follette School as a good place to recruit,” he says. More photos …
From the Director:
La Follette community responds to need
to support students
Attracting top students to the La Follette School for this fall is going to be a little easier, thanks to the generosity of our alumni, friends, faculty and staff. Alumni and friends of the school responded to the challenge issued by all faculty and staff members to match dollar for dollar up to $8,000 in gifts. Read more …
2 revel in baseball team’s league championship
Two La Follette School alumni are looking forward to summer and the chance to defend their baseball team’s season title in the Men’s Senior Baseball League of Southern Wisconsin. Read more …
2 alumni start service as ambassadors to Greece, Angola
Two La Follette School alumni are serving as U.S. ambassadors. Dan Mozena, class of 1973, was accredited as ambassador to Angola upon presentation of his credentials to President José Eduardo dos Santos on January 9, while Daniel V. Speckhard, class of 1982, was sworn in as U.S. Ambassador to Greece on November 7, and arrived in Athens on November 15. Read more …
Alumni news
Members from the 1980s, 1990s and 2000s share their news about work and family. Read more …
1992 alum Steven Semmann dies
Steven Semmann, 44, of McFarland, Wisconsin, passed away in November 2007 at home surrounded by his loving family. He graduated in 1992 from the La Follette Institute of Public Affairs. Read more …
Network via the Web
Alumni and friends are invited to join the La Follette Alumni Group on LinkedIn, a professional networking web site. Read more …
WWIG seminar alum reigns as clerk, Mrs. Oktoberfest
Participation in a La Follette School seminar led to Sue Schultz running for the town of Onalaska’s clerk — and, in part, to being named Mrs. Oktoberfest as part of La Crosse, Wisconsin’s annual celebration. Read more …
Faculty News
Faculty are winning awards, sharing their knowledge, tasting Australian wines, monitoring elections and evaluating schools. Read more …
Alum keeps judicial post
1986 alum Mitch Metropulos kept his job as circuit court judge for Wisconsin’s Outagamie County, having defeated Outagamie County District Attorney Carrie Schneider in an April election. Read more …
Student on Fulbright, La Follette professor do lunch — in Beijing
Given that La Follette School faculty often go the extra mile for students, Melanie Manion’s offer to buy student Allison Quatrini lunch is not too surprising.
However, they had lunch in Beijing. Read more …
Trade journal features international business course project
Little did student Todd Kowalewski realize that his experience teaching middle school students whose parents’ jobs were outsourced would lead to development of a method for corporations to evaluate potential locations for building new facilities. Read more …
1994 grad shares energy expertise
Kevin B. Cronin, 1994, assistant general counsel to the Public Service Commission of Wisconsin, writes that he attended the Eastern Regulators Regional Association fall meetings held in Tallinn, Estonia, during September. Read more …