Bio: Missling, Lorraine (Distinguished Alumni Award 1968)

Contact: Audrey Roedl
Email: audrey@wiclarkcountyhistory.org

Surnames: Missling

----Source: The Loyal Tribune (Loyal, Clark County, WI) 02 May 1968

Missling, Lorraine; Alumni Award May 26, 1968

Four Whitewater State University graduates who have made outstanding contributions in education, business and community service will receive Distinguished Alumni awards during the commencement exercises to be held May 26.
The 1968 selectees for the honor include Arthur J. Baker, '38, Crystal Lake, Illinois; Miss Ruth Bennett, '24 Whitewater; Miss Lorraine Missling,'48, Eau Claire and E. C. Severson, '19, Madison.

Miss Lorraine Missling is an assistant professor of business education and supervisor of student teachers at Eau Claire University. Her first teaching post her 1948 graduation from WSU was at Randolph High School. She then taught in Shawno where she organized a chapter of Future Business Leaders of America.

After earning a master's degree at the University of Wisconsin in 1954, Miss Missling went to Milwaukee Nicholet High School as chairman of the business education department. During her 10 years there, she again organized an FBLA chapter, which was named outstanding of 3,500 in the U. S. in 1963 and in 1964.

Active in many professional groups, Miss Missling has served as president of the Wisconsin Business Education Association, president of the Central Region of the of the National Business Education Association, and was elected to the national executive board of the NBEA for two three- year term.

The graduate of Loyal High School held three presidencies at the same time during 1963-- those of the Nicolet Education Assn., the Milwaukee chapter of the Whitewater Alumni Assn., and of Delta Pi Epsilon, honorary business education society. She has been state chairman of FBLA since 1960. and was elected state secretary of Delta Kappa Gamma, honorary society for women teachers, for 1965-67 and was reelected for 1967-69.

In February, Miss Missling was named recipient of the Delta Kappa Gamma International Scholarship of $2,500, and plans to attend the University of North Dakota to complete course work for her doctorate. She has done previous advances work at the Universities of Colorado and Wisconsin. Her professional activities also have included writing and assisting with books, and she has spoken widely to educational and professional groups and in promoting FBLA activities.