Lawrence Today magazine, Spring 2007


Michael Cisler ’78 of Neenah and Margy Upton Trumbull ’72 of Toledo, Ohio, were elected to three-year terms on the Lawrence University Board of Trustees at its fall meeting and joined the board in January.

Cisler is the retired president and CEO of JanSport, Inc., a leading manufacturer of backpacks and other travel gear as well as collegiate and outdoor apparel. In 2000, he spearheaded the company’s acquisition of its largest rival, Eastpak. He was appointed executive vice president the following year and was named president in 2002. He retired two years later when JanSport’s offices relocated from Wisconsin to California.

He served seven years on the Lawrence University Alumni Association Board of Directors and also was appointed to two special committees established by the Board of Trustees: the Task Force on Residential Life and the 2003-04 Presidential Search Committee.

Cisler chaired the Class of 1978’s 25th Reunion Gift Committee and was recognized in 2003 with the Alumni Association’s Marshall B. Hulbert Young Alumni Service Award. His daughter, Caitlin,
graduated from Lawrence in 2006.

A silversmith, Trumbull majored in studio art, then did her student teaching at the Milwaukee Art Center under the supervision of Mary Rae Chemotti ’70. Following graduation, she worked at the Toledo Museum of Art. She apprenticed with jewelers and had a fine arts jewelry business for several years.

She is president of the board of the Arts Commission of Greater Toledo and served on the design-review board for several projects in the Toledo area, including the Vietnam Memorial Plaza and a public-art project for Fifth Third Field, home of the Toledo Mud Hens AAA baseball team. She also has served as co-chair of Lucas County’s Art in the Park.

Trumbull is a former Lawrence alumni admission representative.

Also at the fall meeting, Margaret Carroll ’61, a trustee from 1974 to 1980 and from 1983 to 2006 and a former chair of the Board of Trustees, was elected a trustee emerita. Retiring from the board were Contance Clarke Purdum ’55 and Mollie Herzog Keys ’64, whose terms expired in 2006.