Alumni Association News
Association issues Citation awards to
Mary Lou Chapek, John Morgan
The UNO Alumni Association bestowed its Citation for Alumni Achievement award upon UNO graduates Mary Lou Chapek and John Morgan during the university’s commencement ceremonies May 6 at Baxter Arena. Inaugurated in 1949, the citation is the association’s highest honor. Chapek, co-founder of MVP Laboratories, earned a master’s degree in biology from UNO in 1969. Morgan, chairman and CEO of Winmark Corp., earned a bachelor’s degree in political science from UNO in 1969. With Chapek and Morgan 171 graduates to have received Citation awards. Read more
Board of Directors annual meeting set
for May 24 at Thompson Center
The UNO Alumni Association Board of Directors will hold its annual meeting Tuesday, May 24, at 4:30 p.m. in the Thompson Alumni Center. New board members and officers will be elected. A slate of proposed directors and officers can be seen on the UNO Alumni Association website at unoalumni.org/board.
For more information contact Meri Kennedy (402)-504-3342 or at mkennedy@unoalumni.org.
Philanthropy Matters
Holocaust survivor told story to save others
Sam Fried, Nebraska’s most well-known Holocaust survivor, passed away in late May. Fried, who survived Auschwitz as a teenager, spoke to thousands of students and raised money to start university programs on genocide and other atrocities.
Fried and his wife, Frances, partnered with the Louis and Frances Blumkin family of Omaha to create a professorship in Holocaust and genocide education in the department of history at UNO. He left a legacy to educate others about the atrocity he lived through. To read his story, click here.
Magazine names Thompson Center
Best Banquet Facility in reader poll
For the second consecutive year the Thompson Center was named Best Banquet Facility in B2B Omaha Magazine’s Best of B2B Winners List for 2016. That follows the facility’s selection in October as Best Reception Venue in Omaha Magazine’s Best of Omaha 2016 contest (also its second consecutive such honor).
Have you seen the Thompson Center lately? A dramatic, modern update recently was implemented throughout the facility, including new wall coverings, carpet, lighting, décor and more. An upgrade to audio-visual capabilities also was completed. Come see it for yourself — schedule a tour with Thompson Center Manager Steven Summers by calling 402-554-3368 or emailing ssummers@unoalumni.org.
Photo courtesy Jeffrey Hahn, Paradigm Creative Media
University News
A Walk to Remember
More than 1,400 students received degrees at UNO’s May commencement, but none to greater applause than Taryn Schaaf. Seven years ago, Schaaf was in an ATV accident that damaged her spinal cord, leaving her without use of her lower body. She later began her rehabilitation at Omaha’s Quality Life Inc. (QLI), one of the nation’s most respected centers for brain and spinal cord injury rehabilitation. And she began working on a degree in social work from UNO’s Grace Abbott School of Social Work. When it came time to receive her diploma, Schaaf walked across the stage to receive it with the help of an exoskeleton — and thousands of cheering fellow graduates and others inside Baxter Arena.
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Other University news
UNO Theatre announces 2016-17 schedule
Photo exhibit celebrates international students
Wambli Sapa Memorial Pow Wow set for May 21
Theatre professor receives national honor
Smoke-, tobacco-free policy to take effect Aug. 22
Three professors among NU-wide awardees
Student president, vice president take oaths
UNO earns Tree Campus USA Recognition ... again
Moving Company to celebrate 80 years
Volunteers 40 & over sought for walking study
UNO announces purchase of First Data property
UNO makes push for specialty license plates
UNO Athletics
Omaha to honor Marlin Briscoe
UNO gradate (1967) Marlin Briscoe will be honored at Baxter Arena this September in recognition of his selection to the National Football Foundation College Football Hall of Fame.
“An Evening with The Magician” will celebrate the life and career of the Omaha native and civil rights trailblazer who made history in 1968 as the first African-American starting quarterback in professional football playing for the Denver Broncos.
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Other Athletics news
Spring Sports
Baseball: Huskers drop Mavs 8-2
Baseball: Fox earns 5th Summit Pitcher of the Week nod
Men's Golf: Freshman Gordon wins Summit championship
Softball: Scarpello named Summit Coach of the Year, six Mavs earn all-league honors
Softball: Mavs top IUPUI in Summit tourney opener
Track & Field: Four Mavs set PRs in Summit tuneup
Fall Sports
Women's Soccer: 2016 schedule features matches against three NCAA qualifiers
Winter Sports
Hockey: Mendelson hired as assistant
Hockey: Four players sign letters of intent
Men's BB: Former Mav Bullock rejoins staff as assistant
Women's BB: Mavs to play in 2016 Preseason WNIT
Student-athletes honored at awards banquet
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May 24: UNO Alumni Association Board of Directors Meeting Quarterly meeting, set for 4:30 in the Thompson Center.
June 2: Lunch Bunch CPACS Dean John Bartle will give a college update — including specifics about the high national U.S. News & World Report rankings earned by several of its programs. See more
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1937 — MAY 24 LIFE magazine publishes feature on OU campus life, “Omaha Undergraduates do this,” featuring Frances Blumkin, daughter of Rose Blumkin, being lofted into the air in a blanket toss.
1949 — MAY 13 Cornerstone laid for Fieldhouse.
1955 — MAY 20 Seniors present university with “Victory Bell" — now missing.
1975 — MAY 18 UNO wins women’s College World Series softball national title.
1988 — MAY 12 Ground broken for construction on Henningson Memorial Campanile. Click link for campanile construction slideshow.
2007 — MAY 8 John Christensen named UNO Chancellor, becoming the first graduate to hold that post.
2013 — MAY 16 UNO baseball team clinches at least a share of the Summit League title — then wins it outright the next day — in a win over South Dakota State. It is the first conference championship of any UNO team in Division I competition.
See more than 1,000 historical entries at This Day in UNO History.
Katie Kresha (BA '07) and Cassidy Cooper Show the O in front of the Petronas Twin Towers in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Where can YOU Show the O? Request a flag — and see gobs of other photos from around the world — at ShowtheO.com. We'll send a flag your way and pay for its return!
Give your fellow grads an update on your life with a Class Note to be published in an upcoming issue of UNO Magazine! Tell us about new jobs, moves, family additions, vacations, hobbies or anything else new or exciting in your life. Do so online in just a few minutes at Class Note Update
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