In 2012 we will be celebrating the Sesquicentennial of Lakeland College. To us, there is no better time than now to put the spotlight on 150 years of the achievements and memories of our graduates. The way we see it, your story is the celebration. If you would like to read the stories of others, click on the names below.
Shared Stories, 1970s:
I went to Sheboygan County Teachers College. It was about time to graduate, and I had a teaching job. However, I found out that, in four years, I would have to have a Bachelor's degree to teach. I was raising my six children alone, so I couldn't teach, take care of my children, and get...
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With Lakeland's Sesquicentennial Celebraton coming up in June, why don't we all "go home to mother?" That's what happens when we return to Lakeland -- we go home to mother. Why do I say this? Because the term "alma mater" means "nourishing mother," and Lakeland, I...
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A Place That's Always Home Why Muskies? Rev. Lawrence (Larry) Balleine '71, current pastor at Zwingli UCC in Monticello, Wisconsin, has shared with us a compelling literary work which he wrote entitled A Place That's Always H ome. This 41-page booklet is...
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My favorite campus memories include the time I spent making lifelong friends. I particularly remember being a part of the 'Campus Players' and working with A.J. Kunde on various plays and musicals. I remember being involved in the Pi Kappa Gamma sorority and developing my leadership...
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As a music education major, third floor Old Main was where I lived. The weekly highlight was Thursday between band and choir rehearsals, when the members who were commuters would go out for dinner. The seasonal lowlight was when the Old Main roof would leak on us during class. The commuting...
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The decision to attend Lakeland College was probably the best decision I have ever made in my life. It definitely altered the person I was, and transformed me into the person I am today. First, I must tell of how I arrived at the decision to come to Lakeland College. In my senior year of high...
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In March 1971 I had just tested and received my first degree blackbelt at the Sheboygan Tae Kwon Do Karate Academy. This photo was taken at the south end of Muehlmeier Dorm. Here you see me running off the two story roof and executing a jumping left flying sidekick. There was a six-foot snow...
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From the first time I stepped on the campus of Lakeland College, my life was blessed with many wonderful achievements. While at Lakeland, I majored in English as a secondary education student, played football (4 years), wrestled (4 years), participated in track (2 years) and met my future wife,...
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"The Dare Affair" - Part II, The Poem by Kurt E. January I love this girl Of blond curl She is no fling Our hearts do ring The Dare Affair Though we do care If they stare My relax be When she I see Not their affair We believe the...
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I have many fond memories of Whitey Carlson's '74 Five-Niner club and my being in the third-pledge class for the Tau Kappa Epsilon fraternity. The research-training of the historiography class has served me well over the years for writing legal memos. I am most grateful to Dr. Stephen...
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WINTER-TERM Greece Study-Tour One day while we were touring the ruins, I asked Dr. Robert Ceder if he would stand up upon that Stone as if he were a Greek god receiving lauels from Rich Bennett '76. In attendance, were Tom Weinstein '76 and Michael Mengar '76.
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I came to Lakeland not knowing what to expect. I knew I was really far from home and not in Ohio anymore. After a short time it felt like home...friends, people who actually knew your name, and the begining of a new adventure. I am glad to say that 43 years later I am still begining new...
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My freshman class in the fall of 1966 had 17 PK's in it, but at least half of them were someplace else by the next year, when they chose where they wanted to go. You check the numbers, I'm not sure. Was it 17 of us PK's, there on PK scholarships, and sent there by our preacher families? ...
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My best anecdote of my four years at Lakeland was a Friday afternoon in the spring of 1978. Lakeland College was flooding due to a 5-day period of torrential downpours. The sanitary facilities behind the Campus Center were being threatened. Most of the fraternity and sorority people banded...
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"The Dare Affair" - Part I ___________________________________________________________________________________________ The year was 1975 and I had just started at Lakeland in autumn. My agenda was to study as hard as I could toward a degree in journalism. However, I also...
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