Alumni Events

Please join us at an alumni event near you. See event details and make reservations on our secure website by using the Sign up now link for any event.

Superior - Dec. 6 -- Chancellor's Ball -- Chancellor and Mrs. Julius Erlenbach and the UW-Superior Alumni Association Board of Directors invite you to join them for evening of dinner and dancing at the Chancellor's Ball. As always, the Silent Auction will offer a variety of fine goods and services for bidding, with the proceeds going to benefits students. For individual tickets, please use our Sign up now link. To reserve a table for your friends, clients or employees, please call toll free at 888-893-8593.

Thank you to the following sponsors of the Chancellor’s Ball: Keyport Lounge and Liquor, Liberty Mutual, ProPrint, and Val’s Unforgettable Fudge! Liberty Mutual is one of the Alumni Association’s Affinity Partners.

Post a message
or chat online
using the
BuzzNet Connector

Our new BuzzNet Connector web page gives you access to an Alumni Forum for posting messages and reading messages from others, and an Alumni Chat Room to chat live with friends and fellow alumni. Go to the BuzzNet Connector.

Get Yellowjacket Gear

Shopping for an alumnus? Got a student attending UW-Superior? Want to show your true colors? Get Yellowjacket gear through the UW-Superior Bookstore. Shop online for more than 100 clothing and gifts items featuring the university name, colors and Buzz, the Yellowjacket mascot. Go to the bookstore's secure website.

All School Reunion 2009
Oct. 9-11, 2009

Please plan to join us on campus Oct. 9-11, 2009, when UW-Superior holds its biggest reunion ever. Learn more on the All School Reunion 2009 website.

A new era begins at UW-Superior

UW-Superior has begun an exciting new era with construction of a new student center and major renovation of Jim Dan Hill Library. While those projects are still under way, construction is expected to begin next year on a new academic building. When the approximately $64 million worth of work is completed in 2010, the university will look substantially different and offer students an array of state-of-the-art facilities. Read more about these exciting projects and see images of how the buildings will appear when finished.

Be part of the future

Your gifts to Campaign Superior: Higher Expectations are important to the success of these projects. By making a gift now, you help ensure that future generations of UW-Superior students will have the tools they need to succeed. Make a gift now.

Watch the progress

See photos of the construction of the new student center and the renovation of Jim Dan Hill Library in the Photo Gallery. We are adding new photos every week until these projects are complete.

You also can use the new live Construction Cam to view the student center construction site. The live web cam is available during the day. A limited number of people can access the site at one time, so please be patient.

Join the BuzzNet volunteers!

Help the UW-Superior Alumni Association reach its goal of recruiting100 new BuzzNet members! Have fun, reconnect with old friends and help your university. Read more about BuzzNet.

LAST CALL FOR ROME!

A limited number of seats remain for this trip.
Call for availability at 800-322-0788, ext. 105.

Rome: January 3-10, 2009
Rome with Malta extension: January 3-14

Join the Alumni Travel Program on an eight-day Rome Winter Getaway with an optional four-day extension to the historic island of Malta.

Our itinerary offers plenty of time to enjoy the attractions of Rome, with optional trips to Pompeii, Assisi and the Borghese Gallery. You also can choose a city tour that includes the catacombs, Trevi Fountain, the Pantheon and other famous locations.

The optional extension to Malta offers an opportunity to see this island located off Sicily. The itinerary includes tours of the Blue Grotto, fishing villages, and the medieval walled city of Mdina.

Visit our Pilgrim Tours website for itinerary, prices and reservation form.

To make your reservation or for more information, contact Alumni Director Tom Bergh at alumni@uwsuper.edu or (715) 394-8081 or toll free at (888) 893-8593

Alumni news

Decorate your tree with our exclusive Old Main ornament!
The holidays will be here before you know it. This year, add a touch of Superior to your Christmas tree with an exclusive ornament depicting Old Main. The price is $20 per ornament, and proceeds support the Alumni Association's work to help UW-Superior and its graduates. Only 50 ornaments remain. To order by credit card, call the UW-Superior Alumni Office toll free at 888-893-8593. If you prefer, you can mail a check payable to the UW-Superior Alumni Association to: Tom Bergh, Director of Alumni Relations, Belknap & Catlin PO Box 2000, Superior WI 54880.

Congratulations to successful candidates
Congratulations are in order for at least two UW-Superior alumni who won political office this month. Nick Milroy, a Superior native and Class of ’98 graduate, was the overwhelming victor in the election to fill Wisconsin’s 73rd District Assembly seat vacated by retiring Frank Boyle, Class of ’67. Wayne Boucher, Class of '91, is the newly elected mayor of Hermantown, Minn. Please tell us if you know of other alumni who ran successful campaigns for office.

New web link makes it easy to buy your Yellowjacket license plates
We've added a link to this page's navigation menu that takes you to the Wisconsin Department of Transportation web page for specialty license plates. The University License Plates program enables Wisconsin vehicle owners to purchase auto, mobile home and truck plates bearing the image of Buzz, the UW-Superior Yellowjacket team mascot. An additional, tax-deductible fee for each plate sold goes toward a fund that provides a scholarship to UW-Superior students. Read more.

Recent grads form Young Alumni Chapter
Recent graduates from across the country have formed the Young Alumni affinity chapter through the UW-Superior Alumni Association. The Young Alumni Chapter is aimed at current students and alumni who have graduated within the past 10 years. The chapter will focus its efforts on providing professional networking and mentoring opportunities. It may also implement a lecture series that brings UW-Superior alumni back to campus to advise students on career matters and encourage mentoring. Read more and find out how you can be part of the new chapter!

Alumnus Fritz Scholder's work featured in Smithsonian exhibits
Artwork by the late Fritz Scholder, who attended UW-Superior as a freshman in 1956-1957 before his family moved to the Southwest, is the subject of a comprehensive exhibit by the National Museum of the American Indian in Washington, D.C., and its George Gustav Heye Center in New York. More than 135 pieces from his 40-year career are featured. In its news release, the NMAI described Scholder as "one of the most transformative artists of the last half century." Scholder took basic art courses at UW-Superior and recalled in his online biography studying with Art Kruk, Jim Grittner and Richard Gorski. In 1993, the university presented Scholder with an honorary doctor of humane letters degree in recognition of his career achievements. Both NMAI exhibitions begin Nov. 1, ending May 17, 2009, in New York and Aug. 16, 2009, in Washington. Learn more on the NMAI website.

Connect with your college friends

Would you like to get in touch with your friends from college? Here's how we can help:

Contact the Alumni Office and we'll try to find contact information through the Alumni Directory.
Post messages on the Alumni Forum.
Attend an alumni event on campus or in your region. You can see details and make reservations by selecting the Alumni Events and Activities link.
Organize an alumni reunion or reception for your campus organization. Contact the Alumni Office for more information.

Send us your news!

We are gathering news for the Winter Edition of Superior Alumni. We (and your friends from campus) want to hear from you! We especially need news from grads from the '80s and from 2007 and 2008. Please send us your news -- new jobs or promotions, new homes, community and church work, recent travels, new children or grandchildren, marriages, awards -- and we will pass it along through the Classmates section of Superior Alumni. Just fill out the convenient Update Your Alumni Information form and we'll do the rest.