Bio: Urbanz, Gwendolyn (Stout Graduate – 1959)

Contact: stan@wiclarkcountyhistory.org 

Surnames: Urbanz, Fryklund, Maas, Pierce

----Source: Greenwood Gleaner (Greenwood, Clark Co., Wis.) 28 May 1959

Miss Gwendolyn Urbanz, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Urbanz, Willard (Clark Co., Wis.), is a member of the 1959 graduating class of Stout State College, Menomonie. She will received the Bachelor of Science degree in Home Economics Education from Dr. Verne C. Fryklund, president of Stout, in commencement exercises to be held Friday morning, May 29th, 1959.

Speaker for the occasion will be Maj. General Melvin J. Maas (retired), decorated veteran of three wars, for 16 years a member of the U.S. House of Representatives, and now, blind himself, chairman of the President's Committee on Employment of the physically handicapped. Presenting diplomas to the graduates will be Robert L. Pierce, member of the Board of Regents of Wisconsin State College.

Before entering the school of Home Economics at Stout, Miss Urbanz was a member of the graduating class of the Greenwood High School. While attending college, she took part in the following campus activities: Delta Zeta Sorority, national social sorority, Home Economics Club; Women's Recreation Association.

After graduation, Gwendolyn Urbanz has made plans to teach Home Economics at the Public School in Stratford, Wisconsin.