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Spring 2011
Alumni Updates ~ Class notes from 2005-present
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Tracy Butler, '10, Marshfield, is attending UWSP to earn a master's degree in speech-language pathology.

Matthew Case, '10, Stevens Point, is a video editor and assistant for Focus Point Photo.

Mike Dellemann, '10, Lake Placid, N.Y., is training at the Olympic Training Center in Lake Placid in order to try out for the USA Bobsled and Skeleton Team this summer.

Jessica DeMille, '10, Park Falls, is a speech-language pathologist in the Chequamegon school district.

John Farber, '10, Wauwatosa, is a crew leader and arborist for Hoppe Tree Service in Wauwatosa.

Caitlin (Hardie) Locy, '10, Onalaska, is the arts education coordinator at Viterbo University in La Crosse. She was married in August.

Marlee Keyzers, '10, Lexington, S.C., is attending Columbia International University Seminary to earn a master of divinity.

Melissa (Dyszelski) Miller, '10, and her husband, Andrew Miller, '08, Wisconsin Rapids, are Marshfield Clinic AmeriCorps service members for Mead Elementary Charter School.
"All my experiences at UWSP have helped shape who I am today and now, as an AmeriCorps service member, I am able to help give opportunities to those currently at UWSP," says Melissa. "It's a unique feeling and I love it."

Amanda (Pavelski) Nelson, '10, Waupaca, is a family and consumer education teacher for the Appleton school district. She married Daniel Nelson in June.

Derek Prestly
Derek Prestly
, '10, Minnetonka, Minn., (above) plays Peter in the musical bare at the Illusion Theater in Minneapolis through Minneapolis Musical Theatre. The show examines the societal pressures facing today's youth. Last fall, Derek was in Evil Dead: The Musical, another production of Minneapolis Musical Theatre.

Nancy Schuster, MSE '10, Plover, is a physical education instructor and APE specialist in the Stevens Point school district. She has coached girls' volleyball at Stevens Point Area Senior High School for 10 years. She and her husband, Steve Schuster, '02, have two children.

Clark Ausloos, '08, Perrysburg, Ohio, is back in the Midwest after several years in New York City where he worked for Inside Broadway teaching music, dance and acting to English as a second language students in Brooklyn. He also worked for Annie's Playhouse in New Jersey teaching dance, musical theatre, acting, voice, piano, monologue and audition techniques. He is an actor, choreographer and member of the Actors Equity Association. He now operates Next Stage Studios for youth in Perrysburg (one of his instructors is Lindsay Fischer, '09) and taught a musical theatre workshop in his hometown of Fond du Lac. He also choreographs regionally with Rocky Mountain Rep and Derby Playhouse and directs in the Toledo area. Clark is also a nationally certified personal trainer.

Natalie Klahorst, '08, Pewaukee, is a behavioral specialist for Rogers Memorial Hospital in Oconomowoc, treating those with anxiety and eating disorders. "What I learned from UWSP about family dynamics and the world around me has allowed me to address everyone of my residents/patients in a humanistic way. My positive experience at UWSP still shines through me to this day and because of that I am able to impact and change the lives of people who are struggling."

Jennifer Drews, '06, Milwaukee, is a seventh grade teacher in the Milwaukee school district.

Dan Schmidt directing the Clintonville High School BandDan Schmidt
, '06, Clintonville, director of the Clintonville High School Band (pictured left), led his students in the UWSP Homecoming parade last October. "Personally this is a great opportunity to give back to the university as UWSP has been critical to my development as a musician," Dan said last fall.
















Kevin Stangler
, '06, Chicago, is a performer in the national tour of The Fiddler on the Roof, playing Perchik the tailor. He has also been in the national tours of The Outsiders, Don Quixote de la Mancha and Mornings of April and May. He also works in Chicago theater, improv and film and is a member of The New Colony theater company.

Sarah (Kleman) Lynch, '05, Hatley, is a registered dietician for Ministry St. Clare's Hospital in Weston.

Laura Osnes, last attended '05, New York, N.Y., and Andrew Cao, '04, Astoria, N.Y., are in the Broadway revival of Anything Goes, which opens at the Stephen Sondheim Theatre April 7. Osnes has the role of Hope Harcourt and Cao plays Luke. The show also features Sutton Foster and Joel Grey. Osnes has appeared on Broadway in Grease in 2007 and South Pacific in 2009 and 2010. Cao played Curly in the National Asian Artists Project's all-Asian production of Oklahoma! in New York City last October.