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Alumna donates memorabilia from
Heart Mountain war relocation camp
UW-Eau Claire students take prizes
at national collegiate sales competition
Israeli Refusenik Muli Linder
to speak about costs of war and peace in Israel
Annual Honoring Education Pow
Wow coming to
UW-Eau Claire
Winona LaDuke: a class act
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Alumna donates memorabilia from
Heart Mountain war relocation camp
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| Clarice Chase Dunn's donated Heart Mountain
collection includes 11 books about the War Relocation Camps; a photo
album of black and white images, clippings and farewell letters
from her pupils; and a complete set of camp newspapers and other
newsletters. |
For more than 60 years a UW-Eau
Claire alumna, Clarice Chase Dunn ’37, Madison, has preserved
essays, letters, photographs and news articles about life at Heart Mountain
School in Wyoming, where she taught English in 1942-43.
These sad keepsakes help tell the story of the more than 112,000 people
of Japanese ancestry who were incarcerated at relocation camps like
Heart Mountain shortly after Pearl Harbor was bombed by Japan in 1941.
Because the camps were quickly abandoned after the war, their existence
has been largely ignored and forgotten except by people who were a part
of them.
Dunn, a retired Madison schoolteacher, recently gave her collection
of memorabilia to UW-Eau Claire where they are housed in the Special
Collections area of McIntyre Library.
The material is available for students and others
who want to study the human story of the Japanese American incarceration.
In addition, Dunn established a bequest that will endow a scholarship
for minorities or students with disabilities, a tribute to those she
taught in the camps and throughout her life. Full
story. 
UW-Eau
Claire students take prizes at national collegiate
sales competition
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| Marty Pitzen, a marketing major with a
professional sales emphasis, competed against students from 32 other
universities to place second in the service competition. |
A team of three UW-Eau Claire senior marketing majors
— Marty Pitzen, David Lenling and Stephanie Mixdorf — recently
took sixth place at the National Collegiate Sales Competition held at
Kennesaw State University in Atlanta, Ga. Pitzen also placed second
in the nation in the individual rankings in the service competition.
The students went through two rounds of competition, selling a product
in the first round and a service in the second. Judges selected the
top three students, who then competed in a third round of competition,
which all the competitors were allowed to watch.
“The experience was nerve-wracking, but one of the most incredible
professional experiences of my life,” said Pitzen. “At the
career fair that is running during the competition, you see some of
the most desirable companies in the United States just waiting to speak
with you.” Full
story.
Israeli Refusenik Muli Linder
to speak about costs of war and peace in Israel
Muli Linder, a physician and an officer in the Israel Defense
Forces, was the 67th Refusenik to sign what has become known as “The
Combatant’s Letter.” He will speak at UW-Eau Claire about
the costs of war and peace in Israel at 7 p.m. Monday, April
19, in the Schneider Social Science Auditorium.
The presentation will be free and is open to students, faculty and the
public. Voluntary donations will be accepted and peace-related materials
will be sold to support the efforts of Courage to Refuse.
The event is sponsored by the UW-Eau Claire Geography Club and the Refuser
Solidarity Network, with support from the UW-Eau Claire Center for International
Education. Full
story.
Annual
Honoring Education Pow Wow coming to UW-Eau Claire
 The
2004 Honoring Education Pow Wow will be held Saturday, April
24, at UW-Eau Claire’s Zorn Arena.
The annual event provides an opportunity for Native American people
to gather and celebrate the importance of their heritage and culture
and for UW-Eau Claire to recognize and honor its American Indian alumni.
All members of the UW-Eau Claire campus community and surrounding communities
are invited to attend and experience an example of Native American culture.
Full story.
Winona LaDuke: a class act
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| Winona LaDuke met with students in Zoltan
Grossman's International Environmental Issues and Policies class
last Wednesday. LaDuke, an activist for social and environmental
issues, closed the 62nd season of The Forum. (Photo by Rick Mickelson,
TLTDC)
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J. Hartt Walsh, a 1924 Eau Claire State Normal School graduate,
was the student responsible for the successful launch of the school's
student newspaper, The Spectator. Only after preselling advertising
for an entire school year's worth of issues and securing 300 paid subscriptions
from a student body of 488 did he convince President Harvey Schofield
that the newspaper would be a viable business venture, and The Spectator
began publication in 1923.
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