On Monday, we finished our last of our eleven Preview sessions for the summer. Nearly 2,000 incoming freshmen and their families visited campus during the last six weeks. When they arrived, they saw a beautiful campus. My thanks to all who helped make the campus so attractive. Thanks to all those who ensure that the buildings are clean and well maintained. Thanks to those who keep the grounds looking inviting, trim, and neat. Thanks to those who design, remodel, and refresh our current buildings. Thanks to those who coordinate the new construction on campus.
Thanks to all how help to make UW-Whitewater a comfortable and attractive place in which to learn and work. I look forward to the facilities picnic next Wednesday.
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A group of businessmen from India are in Whitewater today as part of UW-Whitewater’s Emerging Markets Program offered through the Global Business Resource Center. Program Director Amy Coon described the program, offered in partnership with the Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection, as an opportunity to bring business leaders from overseas to Wisconsin to learn more about U.S. business practices and U.S. markets.
The businessmen spent yesterday in meetings in Madison with U.S. buyers. Today’s meetings are on-campus educational sessions led by professors Choton Basu, Jeffery Heinrich, Jerry Gosen, and John Luecke. Tomorrow’s activities will involve retail tours in Madison, followed by a reception at the Governor’s Residence.
Congratulations all those involved with the Emerging Markets Program for developing another successful program. I look forward to meeting the participants at the reception tomorrow.
We are in the midst of the Home-Coming Festival in Whitewater. This is the 100th anniversary of the 1907 Home-Coming that was spearheaded by Whitewater Normal School President Albert Salisbury. The event in 1907 brought several thousand people back to Whitewater, and this year’s event is reflecting on that event and the past 100 years.
On Sunday, we hosted a Home-Coming Festival Dinner in the Van Steenderen Atrium of the Greenhill Center for the Arts. Over 80 people were in attendance.
Today at 4:30, we will have a brief ceremony to rededicate the Halverson Log Cabin on the campus. The log cabin was built in Richmond Township in 1844 and moved to campus in 1907. It was officially opened in December of 1907. Just as President Salisbury brought the log cabin to campus to connect us with our past, we will reaffirm our connection with our history through this rededication.
