by Peninsula Pulse | Apr 1, 2020 | Alumni Profiles
Kodanko’s more basic love of science started when he was in high school at Sevastopol. He realized he enjoyed chemistry and was good at it, and his teacher served as a great role model. After graduating from Sevastopol in 1993, he intended to pursue engineering...
by Peninsula Pulse | Mar 25, 2020 | Alumni Profiles
Washington Island school is small. So small, in fact, that when Mary Hansen graduated in 2008, it was a buzzworthy event in the community thanks to the abnormally large size of the graduating class – of 13. Hansen got a look at that larger world after high school,...
by Peninsula Pulse | Mar 25, 2020 | Alumni Profiles
When 2013 Sturgeon Bay High School graduate Matthew Seiler had a season-ending injury during his senior year of football, he had to reevaluate his plans to play college football. Aside from enjoying other sports in high school – basketball, track and golf – he also...
by Peninsula Pulse | Mar 25, 2020 | Alumni Profiles
Being a college athlete isn’t all it’s cracked up to be, and Sturgeon Bay alumna Linnea Schmelzer knows that better than many. By the time she entered her junior year playing basketball at Truman State University in Missouri, she was burned out, both physically and...
by Peninsula Pulse | Mar 25, 2020 | Alumni Profiles
Peter Bordui has spent more than 20 years living out of the country, yet he’s continued to make lasting contributions to the community that gave him his start. Following graduation, he attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to study material science. After...
by Peninsula Pulse | Mar 25, 2020 | Alumni Profiles
Kat Gebauer went from being the shy kid in class to running 35 miles at a time through Glacier National Park in a hot-pink tutu and a pair of fairy wings. And she’s usually doing it with a camera in her hand. After high school, she went to UW-La Crosse, thinking she’d...
by Peninsula Pulse | Mar 25, 2020 | Alumni Profiles
In 42 years of working in education, Patricia Vickman has come full circle: She graduated from Southern Door and now serves as superintendent. Vickman’s career and marriage took her to several places around the U.S. and Wisconsin, but she returned to the district in...
by Peninsula Pulse | Mar 25, 2020 | Alumni Profiles
It didn’t take long after graduating from Southern Door High School before Rebecca Malcore started making significant advances in her future career through her undergraduate scientific research. Upon graduating from UW-Green Bay in May 2019, Malcore received the Paul...
by Peninsula Pulse | Mar 25, 2020 | Alumni Profiles
When Spetz fulfilled his dream of moving to New York City, he wasn’t prepared to hate it. But, after growing up in Sturgeon Bay and spending lots of time at his grandparents’ apple orchard, he missed the green space. Now that he’s lived in a Big Apple place of a very...
by Peninsula Pulse | Mar 25, 2020 | Alumni Profiles
Ashley Leist was driving when a deer ran out and hit the passenger side of the car. Both were injured. The accident left Cody out of work at his family’s tree-service business. He healed, but then he broke the arm again the following summer while throwing a pitch in a...
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