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Alumni and Friends: La Follette Notes: Fall 2005
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Nancy Singel Hardin Greif is resisting suggestions that she run for county commissioner in Colorado and is focusing on farming. After receiving her master’s degree from the La Follette School’s predecessor, the Center for the Study of Public Policy and Administration in 1973, she was a research geologist and geophysicist and scientific administrator for the U.S. Geological Survey until 1988, when she left to finish her Ph.D. in geology and geophysics and a law degree with a certificate in natural resources law. She worked as an attorney, mediator and arbitrator until March 2005, when she retired to start her third career as a farmer with the Durango, Colo., farmers’ market. “I can assure you that my new career as a farmer is every bit as challenging as my two earlier careers,” she says.
Also out in Durango, Kim Herb, 2005, is finding her job as a research analyst with Ecos Consulting challenging. “Pretty much with each project I get a crash course in new a subject,” she says. “Anyone wanting to know about the most energy intensive processors, give me a call, I’m working on it.”
Lauren Ruth Laatsch was born to Jennifer and Brian Laatsch on June 20. She joins her sisters Hannah and Bethany at home in Janesville, Wis. Brian is a 1993 graduate who works with Policy Studies Inc., a human services company based in Denver, Colo. His consulting work focuses on performance management and budgeting for states’ child support enforcement agencies.
2005 classmates Allison Schill and Natalie Walleser are working at the Wisconsin Legislative Audit Bureau as legislative analysts.
Sarah K. Barry, 2001, has been hired by Navigant Consulting in Seattle to work on Medicaid issues with state governments around the country. She previously worked in health services research at the Department of Veterans Affairs.
Jeffrey Sachse has completed coursework for his Ph.D. in political science from UW-Milwaukee and anticipates graduating in May. His dissertation focuses on the changing roles of public service commissioners following deregulation of the electricity industry and the Enron scandal.
Thomas Hruz, 1997, is an attorney at the Milwaukee law firm of Meissner Tierney Fisher & Nichols. He left his position as a resident fellow with the Wisconsin Policy Research Institute in 2002 after graduating from Marquette University Law School. He clerked for Justice David T. Prosser Jr. on the Wisconsin Supreme Court and for Judge John L. Coffey, on the Seventh Circuit of the United States Court of Appeals.
Wisconsin Gov. Jim Doyle selected Randy Romanski, 1995, to be his deputy chief of staff. Romanski had been the executive assistant for the Wisconsin Department of Transportation. Larry Martin, who did some course work at the La Follette School of Public Affairs, is shifting to a new job as Romanski’s replacement as executive assistant at the Department of Regulation and Licensing.
Alan D. Paberzs, 2005, joined Northwestern University Law School’s Bluhm Legal Clinic as a budget analyst to manage the clinic’s budget and daily finances.
Trisha Schmid, 2004, is a legislative aide for Wisconsin Reps. Spencer Black, a 1981 alum, and Sondy Pope-Roberts.
As part of her post-graduation transition, Ellen Wuennenberg, 2005, spent a few weeks last summer in Las Vegas as a production assistant. “This show I did boring things like copying and typing as well as more fun things like taking directors notes and working with the talent and stage managers backstage,” she says. In the fall she began interviewing for jobs in the Chicago area.
Jennifer Schuh, 2005, has accepted a position as assistant account executive/ coordinator with Hill & Knowlton Chicago’s public affairs group. An international public relations firm specializing in public affairs, Hill & Knowlton is the largest communications consultancy in the world.
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Index to La Follette Notes fall 2005