Classmate Profiles

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Virginia Rohlich

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Work life? (e.g., education, first job, occupation): After high school, my parents moved the younger half of the family to Austin, Texas. I married and had 2 daughters, became a registered nurse and then later went back to UT and got a BS in Civil Engineering. I worked for the City until retiring the day I turned 55.
Family life? (e.g., spouse, kids/grandkids, friends, places lived): I am the proud grandmother of 3 wonderful grandkids and very lucky that they all live nearby. My first husband and I divorced about 25 years ago and I remarried about 15 years ago.
Doing today? (e.g., where do you live, working or retired, hobbies, travels): Still living in and loving Austin. I play an awful lot of golf, I jog and walk, and spend a lot of time at Barton Springs pool. During non-covid times I enjoy travel.
Bucket list? (e.g., plans for the future, travel): Still dreaming of making my first hole-in-one (and breaking 80). Hope to get more travel in and spend my years visiting my large, world-wide-spread family and friends.

Cheryl Rosen (Sweet)

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Sandy Rotter

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Sari Rotter

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Work life? (e.g., education, first job, occupation): After medical school at UW I moved to Brookline (just outside Boston) with my husband Bill Gardner. We haven't budged. Bill retired a few years ago after 35 years teaching 4th grade at a neighborhood school, and I continue a good gig in my small pediatric practice a stone's throw from our home.
Family life? (e.g., spouse, kids/grandkids, friends, places lived): We have 1 local and 2 far flung - LA and Oaxaca - sons. Our Great Dane Ladybird amuses us and gets us out on daily walks.
Bucket list? (e.g., plans for the future, travel): We recently started work on our bucket list when we bought a house on a lake on Cape Cod. The view and experience evoking northern Wisconsin are such a comfort. Birding, swimming, paddle boarding and walking in the woods have been much appreciated escapes from the pandemic, aging and the state of the world.

Jeffrey Sachs

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Work life? (e.g., education, first job, occupation): After West High I earned my BA at UW Madison. I then moved to Munich Germany for a year to work at Global Music Publishing. In 1978 I settled in New York City. and earned my law degree from Pace University while still working in music. I relocated to Los Angeles hoping to land a law job but fate took hold and I ended up working in television as a comedy writer at NBC. Over the next 20+ years I wrote and produced different shows among them Saved By The Bell, Hang Time, 9to5 and others until retiring in 2005. After a brief retirement I went back to work as a Realtor for Coldwell Banker in Beverly Hills where I still work today. California is great but there is nothing better than Madison!
Family life? (e.g., spouse, kids/grandkids, friends, places lived): I'm solo at the moment. I did have three of the best dogs ever; yet sadly they're gone. I'm looking for a (rich, handsome) husband in case anyone knows someone. I did have a lovely fiancée back in the day, but that didn't work out as expected. Anyway, life is a journey. I've been fortunate. I have the best friends and family. I couldn't ask for more.
Doing today? (e.g., where do you live, working or retired, hobbies, travels): I live in Los Angeles. My parents retired here (and passed away here), my younger brother (by 6 years) moved here and has kids and family here. Other family have also landed here so it feels pretty much like home. I like to travel as much as time, money and now COVID allows. I'm a pretty average guy. I have many of the same friends now as I did in high school along with others I made over the years. I like a good bourbon manhattan, watching comedies, addicted to the news, and wish I could still ski but alas my old bones...
Bucket list? (e.g., plans for the future, travel): Stay as healthy as possible and be open to adventure. See what comes.

Ken Saiki

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Gary Saunders

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Work life? (e.g., education, first job, occupation): Graduated from the UW in '78 (BSME), followed by an MBA from the Univ. of New York, and an MS from Geo. Washington Univ. Started work at IBM in New York in '78, and stayed with them until retiring in 2016. Spent some early time building utility plants and factories for IBM - but most of my career was at CHQ in various positions. Was fortunate to be able to travel the world, with employees and operations in most countries. I thoroughly enjoyed time and travels with international staff located in China, Singapore, Taiwan, Japan, Hong Kong, India, and Western Europe. I eventually evolved to managing several other large Multi-national corp supply chains and back-office operations - via an outsourced business services model with IBM. Along the way our Saunders family has kept a 'home base' residence in PA, NY, CT and VT.
Family life? (e.g., spouse, kids/grandkids, friends, places lived): The love of my life - Dorota (Orlowski), from Koszalin, Poland, on the Baltic - and I met in '91 and married in '95, on a mountain top over-looking West Point. We have two sons - ages 18 and 21. Both attend the University of Vermont in Burlington - which is a beautiful campus on Lake Champlain. It reminds me a lot of Madison's campus on the lakes. Over the years, we have been the 'host' home for students from Germany, Spain, and Ghana. Many international students come to Vermont to attend the Burr and Burton Academy (where our sons graduated) or the local Stratton Mtn School - where student winter olympians train. Dorota and I have also helped-out with providing a good home environment for kids in temporary need of a safe place to live.
Doing today? (e.g., where do you live, working or retired, hobbies, travels): Today and for the past 6 years: Fully retired. Home these days is where my wife and I are happiest: the beautiful state of Vermont. We've had a second home (a 'barndominium') in VT for a long time - and built a new home in the nearby pastoral town of Dorset, VT in 2009. We just completed the design of another new timber frame home at our 'Loose Moose Acres' farm property in Danby, VT - to be our "net-zero" farm homestead for our final years - with a beautiful view of the Green Mountains. The concrete foundations for the home are being poured 'as we speak' . All my time is now spent volunteering for the community and enjoying hobbies: Skiing, hunting, fishing (fresh water and trout), sugaring (maple syrup making in our 'sugarhouse'), sports cars (Corvettes, racing), motorbikes (Harley), hiking (often the nearby Appalachian Trail), camping, farming, construction, golf, boating... and of course - travel. Volunteer activities include leading the Cub Scouts and Boy Scouts, working with the local library, a Trout-in-the-Classroom program, and other activities supporting various local and national charities. We haven't let Covid slow down our travels much - with recent trips to Lemans (for the 24 hour race), Normandy, Canada, Nevada (for race driver's school), Florida, and Wisconsin. I used to do Harley touring - Europe, the Nordics, and Alaska being the favorites - but lately have stuck to four wheel vehicles for travels. Quite a few weeks of our summers are spent at our family island (Isle-B-Back) in Canada, north of Minnesota - where the fishing is 'world-class' and I can practice my architecture and construction hobby on remote off-the-grid family cabins and their fit-up.
Bucket list? (e.g., plans for the future, travel): Our bucket list may be quite modest as compared to others. We are looking forward to settling-in at our Loose Moose Acres property and relaxing - practicing a Norman Rockwell lifestyle. Maybe some grandkids in our future? Who knows.

RuthAnn Schallert-Wygal (Schallert)

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Work life? (e.g., education, first job, occupation): Attended University of Chicago, graduated AB Linguistics 1974.
First job ever was interim organist of a church while in junior high.
First job after college was nursing assistant in Madison.
After moving back to Chicago, held various administrative/logistical day jobs in real estate management, private label supermarket marketing, and hospice management offices. My expertise was proofreading and formatting documents, meticulous data entry, and meeting planning. Retired July 2020.
Family life? (e.g., spouse, kids/grandkids, friends, places lived): Married to John 1977 to 2003, when he passed away.
Stepson Scott lives in Maryland.
Daughter Lila lives in Brooklyn NY. Lila married Anteus in August 2019 in New Orleans. No grandchildren (yet), but I read stories weekly over Zoom to two grandnephews aged 1 and 3 who live in Boston.
Have lived mostly in Chicago area since 1971 (13 different places!) My two best friends live here, and other musicians I've collaborated with over the years.
Doing today? (e.g., where do you live, working or retired, hobbies, travels): Retired since summer 2020. My heart work is composing and performing music, primarily on keyboard. Have collaborated 40+ years with my best friend Ellen (a singer/songwriter); we perform at local and regional Eckankar events.
Have sung over 20 years in the Music Institute Chorale (based in Evanston IL - see our performances on YouTube) and also in Threshold Choir, a volunteer organization where we sing specially written songs to hospice patients at bedside.
I love planning road trips and traveling either solo or with a friend. Last two years, I've limited myself to driving around the Midwest...Galena, Decorah IA, Minneapolis, Sparta WI, etc.
Hobbies include jigsaw puzzles, walking in the woods, reading, seeking out eclectic shops, museums, ethnic restaurants, exotic foods.
Bucket list? (e.g., plans for the future, travel): Write more pieces for instrumental groups and choirs.
Record some of my music and publish sheet music online.
Travel to New Zealand and the British Isles.
See more national parks in the US. Travel to Japan again.
Visit family members around the country.

Briana Scheler

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Work life? (e.g., education, first job, occupation): BS Mechanical Engineering - UW
MS Operations Research/Eng Management, Southern Methodist

I worked in the defense industry for Texas Instruments which was later merged with Raytheon and Hughes to become Raytheon and then was recently merged with United technologies to become Raytheon Technologies and finally RTX. I specialized in high vacuum optical coating systems but later became a specialist in microelectronics and electronic circuitry manufacturing, design and packaging. I was truly blessed to be able to see some of the most incredible emerging technologies over the last 40 years, and participate in helping those technologies mature. I am retired now but it was an extremely rewarding career. I probably worked too much, LOL. Somewhere along that path I became a Christian. I met my wonderful wife Denise in 1987 and got married in 1988.
Family life? (e.g., spouse, kids/grandkids, friends, places lived): Denise and I have been married for 36 years (as of 2024). We have two charming daughters, who have collectively given us five grandkids so far, 9 to 3 years old. They are a handful but an incredible blessing, nonetheless. My youngest daughter, Lindsey, has just published her first novel; "A Tether Through the Rift" (Lindsey N. Rhoden - on Amazon). Sooooo proud of her! She already has a Novella in edit/review, and another on the way as part of the series, and Book 2 of the "Tether" series in work.

I moved to the Dallas Texas area after graduating UW, and never left. However I have worked in California and in Europe on many occasions, on assignment, although Dallas was always home base.

After a lot of years of struggle, introspection, and self-doubt, I elected to start transitioning so at this point I have completed my transition as a woman. Started way too late in the game, but that was not the lay of the land 30+ years ago.

Transitioning has been strangely and incredibly empowering and freeing. Even though I started this late (2010) I’m finally at peace with myself.
Doing today? (e.g., where do you live, working or retired, hobbies, travels): I retired at the end of 2020. However, Covid cut a lot of plans short for the first eight months of my retirement, but we made the best of it regardless. I am currently working on gaining expertise in sonar (read as “figuring out my fish finder”) :). I fish a lot, play with/babysit the grandkids. I have started personal traveling a lot more than when I worked, lol. Volunteered with the Red Cross for a couple of years but stepped down so I could make time for volunteering in a Christian charity. Am active again in my church. I have plans to go back to school at some point. My plans are to probably get Microsoft certified on at least some of the Microsoft suite, to get fluent in Spanish again, and to pick up where I left off in photography, although this time around it will be digital rather than film. We will see how this all unfolds.
Bucket list? (e.g., plans for the future, travel): Continue to grow in my Lord Jesus Christ
Education in Spanish, photography, maybe Microsoft software
Fishing Cabo San Lucas
Touring and fishing Alaska
Champaign Hot air ballooning over New England in the fall
Travel New Zealand

Mary Frances Schjonberg

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Work life? (e.g., education, first job, occupation): After earning a BA Journalism & Mass Communications from UW-Madison in December 1975, I worked for the Marquette County Tribune in Montello, Wis.; the Wisconsin State Journal; Billings (MT) Gazette; Bismarck (ND) Tribune and the Missoulian (Missoula, MT). In 1997 I quit to go to seminary and in 2001 earned a Master of Divinity from the Church Divinity School of the Pacific, the Episcopal seminary in Berkeley, CA (it was like being back in Madison!). I was called by Christ Church in Short Hills, NJ, that fall. In 2005 I was persuaded to combine my two vocations and come work for the Episcopal News Service, the denomination's online news service based in New York City. In that job I traveled all over the world as a reporter, editor, photographer and videographer and editor. In 2010 Church Divinity School of the Pacific awarded me an honorary Doctor of Divinity degree.
Family life? (e.g., spouse, kids/grandkids, friends, places lived): I am married with four grandchildren ranging in age from 18 to 13 by way of her two children.
Doing today? (e.g., where do you live, working or retired, hobbies, travels): I live on the Jersey Shore, the real Jersey Shore, not the MTV one, where I kayak and boogie board and stay fit walking the long, long boardwalk. My bookcases are filled with books yet to be read. I "retired" in July 2019 but I continue to do freelance writing and editing. As an Episcopal Church priest, I fill in at churches whose priests are on vacation or sick or have left for a new position and a new priest has not yet been called. I am also serving on the Episcopal Church's Joint Nominating Committee for the Election of the Presiding Bishop through July 2024.