News: Neillsville - Eau Claire Tech (Degrees - 1977)

Contact: Dolores (Mohr) Kenyon
E-mail: dolores@wiclarkcountyhistory.org 

Surnames: Marg, Olson, Skroch, Trybula, Huebner, Appleyard, Becker, Marty, Oestreich, Oldham, Simenson, Tumm, Bastian, Knudsen, Miller, Pekol

----Source: Clark County Press (Neillsville, Clark Co., WI) 5/26/1977

District One Technical Institute-Eau Claire (Degrees - 1977)

Commencement exercises were held for 499 vocational diploma and 241 associate degree candidates at District One Technical Institute – Eau Claire, on May 20, at the UW-Eau Claire arena.

Included in that group were a large number of students from the Neillsville and Willard areas. Achieving a 3.5 cumulative grade point average and graduating were Kathleen J. Marg in marketing-fashion merchandising, Ellen M. Olson in marketing and fashion merchandising, James Skroch in wood technics and Peggy Trybula, clerk typist, all from Neillsville: and Ronald B. Huebner in electrical power distribution, a Willard native.

Also listed as graduating from the Neillsville area were Mary B. Appleyard, accounting: Cindy A. Becker, secretarial science; Mary K. Becker, media assistant; Thomas R. Marty, diesel mechanics; Debbie L. Oestrich, data preparation; Kenneth L. Oldham, electronic servicing; Tracey R. Simenson, marketing-fashion merchandising; and Jane M. Tumm, clerk typist-medical.

Graduating from the Willard area were Joseph Bastian, production agriculture; Craig A. Knudsen, automotive mechanics; Curtis A. Knudsen, automotive mechanics; Daniel W. Miller, production agriculture; and Robert Pekol, industrial electronics technology.