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For Immediate Release			                     March 28, 1997

Breseman Named Director of Lawrence University's Bjorklunden

APPLETON, WIS.   Mark Breseman, the first Lawrence University student ever
hired to work at Bjorklunden, will soon return to the 405-acre estate as the
director of the college's "northern campus" outside Baileys Harbor in Door
County.  

Breseman will be responsible for the overall management of the property and
coordinating Bjorklunden's year-round programming, including the 12-week summer
adult seminar series, the weekend academic programs for Lawrence students and
future conference/retreat activities.  William Hodgkiss, Lawrence vice
president for business affairs, said Breseman will assume his new duties May 5.

"Bjorklunden is one of those incredible places you experience in your life and
now to go back there in this capacity is very special," said Breseman, who
spent four summers as a caretaker at the estate while a student at Lawrence. 
"The opportunity to be involved in guiding this special place and its wide
variety of programs, especially the new weekend programs for Lawrence students,
is just very exciting."

Breseman, 40, earned a bachelor's degree in biology from Lawrence in 1978 and a
master's degree in recreation resources management from the University of
Wisconsin in 1983.  He returned to Bjorklunden in 1989 to lead the summer
seminar, "The Nature of Door County."

Since 1985, he has served as the environmental education director of the Bethel
Horizons Nature Center in Dodgeville, developing adult workshops and courses as
well as leading outreach programs for schools and teachers throughout the
Midwest.  In 1989, he was named Project WILD facilitator of the year.   

The Bjorklunden estate was bequeathed to Lawrence in 1963 by its owners, Donald
and Winifred Boynton of Highland Park, Ill.  Since 1980, Lawrence has offered a
series of summer adult seminars at Bjorklunden.  The estateÕs original lodge
was heavily damaged August 15, 1993 in an early-morning electrical fire and was
eventually razed.  A two-story, 17,190-square-foot lodge that more than
quadrupled the size of the original lodge was completed in the spring of 1996.

Last fall, Lawrence began complementing its summer series by offering weekend
seminars on a wide range of interdisciplinary academic topics for current
students.  To date more than 200 students and 23 faculty members have
participated in one of the weekend programs at Bjorklunden.