Lucia R. Briggs Distinguished Achievement Award
George B. Walter '36 Service to Society Award
Gertrude Breithaupt Jupp M-D'18 Outstanding Service to Lawrence Award
Terry P. Moran '82
Lucia R. Briggs Distinguished Achievement Award
In 1982, Lawrence University English major Terry Moran was selected as a Thomas J. Watson Foundation Fellow, which allowed him to spend the next year in western Ireland, studying the effects of economic development on small communities in Counties Galway, Mayo, and Sligo and evidencing early signs of the analytical and reportorial abilities that would bring him achievement, success, and distinction in his life's work as a journalist.
As an ABC News White House correspondent, Moran reports on all aspects of the Bush administration for "Good Morning America," "World News Tonight," and other newscasts. During the 2000 election campaigns, he was assigned to cover Vice President Gore and reported on primary elections from Iowa and New Hampshire to Super Tuesday.
From 1998-99, he was an ABC legal correspondent and the network's primary reporter assigned to the U.S. Supreme Court. He also covered the trials of Dr. Jack Kevorkian and Unabomber Theodore Kaczynski, as well as the Microsoft anti-trust case.
In 1999 he traveled to refugee camps in Macedonia and Kosovo, covering war-crimes issues and other stories. He also was in Miami covering the Elian Gonzalez story.
He received the Thurgood Marshall Journalism Award for his coverage of death-penalty issues and the New York Festival's bronze medal for a human interest story involving sentencing laws.
Prior to his work at ABC News, Moran was a correspondent and anchor for Court TV and received critical attention for his nightly coverage of the day's events in the murder trials of O.J. Simpson and of brothers Erik and Lyle Menendez. He also reported on the General Motors pickup-truck trial and covered Senate hearings on the nominations of Zoe Baird for attorney general and Ruth Bader Ginsburg as associate justice of the Supreme Court.
Before joining Court TV, he was a reporter and assistant managing editor at Legal Times. He also has written for such publications as The New York Times, The Washington Post, and The New Republic magazine, where he began his career in journalism.
Austin J. Boncher '63
George B. Walter '36 Service to Society Award
Austin Boncher, a 1963 graduate of Lawrence's Conservatory of Music, has been a guiding and inspiring presence in school and community music and arts programs in the Fox Valley since his graduation from Lawrence. Between 1963 and 1970 he was, successively, choral director at Xavier High School and Einstein Junior High School in Appleton and band director at Menasha High School.
He held the position of director of music — later renamed supervisor of music and fine arts — for the Appleton Area School District from 1970 until his retirement in 1998. Through his efforts, devotion, and leadership and owing to the excellence of the teachers and musicians he hired and mentored, the school district and the Fox Valley as a whole have become a cultural center that is known, admired, and envied throughout the state.
Arts organizations in whose creation and development he was a key figure include the Fox Valley Symphony, Youth Symphony, Junior Symphony, and Symphony Chorale; the White Heron Chorale; and the Appleton Boychoir. He was involved in the formation of the Lawrence Arts Academy, now the Lawrence Academy of Music, and has been director of music and senior choir at Trinity Lutheran Church since the late 1960s.
An enterprising and effective manager and an accomplished fund-raiser, he wrote successful grant proposals that brought opera, ballet, instrumental, and theatre performing groups to the elementary schools, as well as beginning a Suzuki string program and organizing summer school music-lesson programs.
In 1993, he received the Renaissance Award, given by the Fox Valley Arts Alliance to one who has devoted substantial time, energy, service, and financial resources to the advancement of the arts in this community.
In March 2003, he was honored with the Hanns Kretschmar Award for Excellence in the Arts, for which he was nominated after heading up "Sing for the Cure," a breast-cancer musical benefit held at the new Fox Cities Performing Arts Center in December 2002.
David L. Hoffman '57
George B. Walter '36 Service to Society Award
David Hoffman served as president of Family Service of Milwaukee, the oldest and largest nonprofit, nonsectarian family-support organization in Wisconsin, for 28 of his 38 years at the agency, retiring in December 2000. During that time, Family Service, which touches the lives of over 10,000 children and adults each year, grew from a staff of 30 to over 200 employees and expanded its mission to include a wide assortment of comprehensive services for families.
Among the innovative programs developed under his leadership were a postgraduate training institute for marriage and family therapists, an employee assistance program, and a nonprofit credit counseling service, as well as collaborations with the Milwaukee County Department of the Aging and the Bureau of Milwaukee Child Welfare and with such consortia as Supporting Today's Parents and The First Relationship.
He brought his agency into alliances with Milwaukee Mental Health Consultants in 1995 and Village Adult Services in 1997 and led it into an affiliation with Aurora Health Care that doubled Family Service's capacity for serving low-income families and the frail elderly wanting to live in the community.
In addition to his Lawrence B.A., he holds a Master of Arts degree from the University of Chicago School of Social Service Administration and a certificate in child psychotherapy from the Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis.
He is member of the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy and a past president of the Association of Child Psychotherapists. He was the convener and first president of the Wisconsin Association of Marriage and Family Counselors and is a fellow of the Wisconsin Society of Clinical Social Workers. Appointed by Governor Tommy Thompson to the Wisconsin State Council on Mental Health in 1990, he was re-appointed to a second three-year term in 1993. Since retirement, he has run in 23 marathons, including one in Antarctica, with the goal of running a marathon in every state and on every continent. In pursuit of that goal, he is leaving immediately after Reunion Weekend to fly to Africa and participate in a marathon there.
Jonathan W. Bauer '83
Gertrude Breithaupt Jupp M-D'18 Outstanding Service Award
Jonathan Bauer, of Glen Ellyn, Illinois, a partner in Deloitte Consulting's telecommunications/information technology practice, has built his volunteer service to the college around a continuing relationship with the Lawrence Career Center, making the trip from Chicago to Appleton several times a year to help current students with various aspects of finding a "life after Lawrence."
In 1997 he was elected to the Alumni Association Board of Directors, where he quickly demonstrated his energy and leadership on the careers committee, serving as chair of that committee in his second year on the board. During his third and fourth years, he served as LUAA president.
During his tenure, the Association initiated a wide variety of new programs, including a Career Contact program that connects alumni via email with students looking for answers to career-oriented questions and a student activity grant program that provides funds for campus activities that enhance student life.
Closer to home, he planned and organized Western Chicago Area alumni events in 1999 and 2001 around performances of The Magic Flute and La Bohème featuring commentary by Tim Troy, '85, assistant professor of theatre and drama, and Jonathan's father, Harold Bauer, director of the DuPage Opera Theatre.
In 2000, he represented the college and President Warch as an official delegate to the inauguration of Don Michael Randel as president of the University of Chicago. At the Reunion Convocation in June 2002, he spoke on behalf of his fellow economics majors on the occasion of the retirement of Professor James Dana.
Currently, he serves as an admissions volunteer for Lawrence and continues his active support of the Career Center.
Michael P. Cisler '78
Gertrude Breithaupt Jupp M-D'18 Outstanding Service Award
Michael Cisler, president and chief executive officer of JanSport, Inc., has aided and supported Lawrence University in a variety of ways during the 25 years he has lived and worked in the Fox Valley since his graduation from the Conservatory of Music.
His volunteer roles have included membership on the regional program committee and as club development coordinator, as well as serving as an admissions volunteer (his daughter Caitlin is a current Lawrence student) and an alumni phonathon caller.
In 1989, Mike was elected to the Lawrence University Alumni Association Board of Directors. During his seven-year tenure, he served as chair of the communications and planning committee and on the executive committee.
He served with distinction as the Alumni Association's representative on the Task Force on Residential Life commissioned by the university's Board of Trustees in 2000 to conduct a review of all aspects of undergraduate residential life at the college and to report its findings at the end of a strenuous two-year process.
Currently, he is a member of the Presidential Search Committee that is seeking a successor to President Richard Warch, who has announced his intention to retire at the conclusion of the 2003-04 academic year.
In addition to all that, he has functioned this year as chair of the 25th reunion-gift committee for the Class of 1978.
Priscilla Wright Hausmann '53
Gertrude Breithaupt Jupp M-D'18 Outstanding Service Award
Since graduating from the Lawrence University Conservatory of Music in 1953, Priscilla Wright Hausmann, a piano teacher and church organist in West Bend, Wisconsin, has served her alma mater and her fellow Lawrentians in a variety of volunteer positions and with energy and contagious good will.
A long-time admissions volunteer, she assisted the Lawrence Office of Admissions in identifying and encouraging bright and talented prospective students from her area. Her crowning achievement in that capacity may have been recruiting her son, Todd Hausmann, '85.
A member of the Lawrence University Alumni Association Board of Directors from 1989 to 1995, she served as chair of the nominations and awards committee, the group that researches and recommends candidates to receive alumni awards at this Reunion Convocation each year. Son Todd recently completed a term on the Board of Directors, making the Hausmanns a two-generation Lawrence leadership family.
For 17 years, Priss served as class secretary extraordinaire for the Class of 1953, a responsibility she undertook with her trademark intelligence and commitment to detail, keeping her classmates in touch with each other and with Lawrence. For the past two reunions, she has served as the leader of her reunion — first in 1997 for the 45th cluster of 1951, '52, and '53 and again this year as steering committee chair for the 50th Reunion of the Class of 1953. Priss has demonstrated both leadership and grace in almost every aspect of her volunteering at Lawrence for 50 years.