Josh Ashton emailed me this message on 8 August 2008:

 "I took your [Vogeler's] Geography 111 course in 1995-1996 as a requirement towards a degree in History. Later, I earned a graduate degree in Special Education and a teaching license in Keyboarding/Computer Applications. My wife and I presently teach at an online charter school called Blue Sky targeting at-risk high school students. We spend our summers traveling and writing curriculum for the upcoming school year.

We recently were debating the merits of our undergraduate education, she attended St. Olaf College and earned a degree in teaching Geography. My wife was astounded to think that a professor for an undergraduate course was weaving online resources and materials in the mid-1990s. Thanks for being on the frontier of education and working at a public institution!

One more note, we have found that my [UWEC] undergraduate experience was more rigorous and provincial while her undergraduate experience was less rigorous, more global and more beneficial in terms of networking in the work world."