News: Curtiss (UW, Stevens Point Graduates – Dec 1971)

Transcriber: stan@wiclarkcountyhistory.org 

Surnames: Klocke, Larson, Woodka, Dreyfus

---------Source: OWEN ENTERPRISE (Owen, Clark County, Wis.) 23 Dec 1971

Two students from the Curtiss (Clark Co., Wis.) area received degrees Sunday afternoon, December 19, 1971, during mid-term commencement rites at the University of Wisconsin, Stevens Point.

The graduates are Bruce Klocke With a B.S., son of Mr. and Mrs. Herman Klocke, and Sharon M. Larson, who also receive her B.S. degree.

The ceremony featured as speaker, Dr. S. Joseph Woodka, Dean of the College of Letters and Science, who discussed the popular slogan, "America, Love it Or leave It.: Dr. Woodka was chairman of the political science department before becoming dean in 1970.

President Lee Sherman Dreyfus, in his traditional charge to the graduates, told the members they are a minority because of their status as college educated persons. He urged them to use their talents in preserving the concept of a self-governed society.