Bio: Erpenbach, Donald (Dist. I Tech. Bd - 1978)

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Surnames: Erpenbach

----Source: Clark County Press (Neillsville, Clark Co., WI) 7/27/1978

Erpenbach, Donald (Dist. I Tech. Bd - 1978)

Donald Erpenbach, 311 Hill St., Neillsville, has been named to the board of directors of Area Vocational, Technical and Adult Education (VTAE) District One. He was approved for the position by the state board in Madison which was asked to make the selection after the District One board found itself unable to reach the necessary unanimous agreement.

Erpenbach, 47, has served as counselor-instructor at the Marshfield campus of Mid-State VTAE since November 1976. He served for two-and-a-half-years prior to that as a board member for Mid-State VTAE, and during this time was on the personnel and finance committees.

While superintendent of schools, at Granton for seven years, Erpenbach served as local center supervisor for continuing adult education courses offered through Mid-State VTAE. He also served for seven years with the Stratford Public School System, where he was high school principal for three years and guidance counselor and psychometrist for four years.

He spent five years in the Tripoli joint school district; two years as assistant supervising principal and guidance counselor teacher of the K-12 system, and three years as teacher of general agriculture, general math, biology, general shop, mechanical drawing and driver education.

Erpenbach served in the armed forces in Korea from 1952-1954 and has worked in St. Croix County as part-time artificial inseminator and as dairy herd improvement supervisor. He spent four summers as driver and as foreman of a fleet of trucks with Rein, Schultz and Dahl, Madison, and three summers as a carpenter’s helper with Carl’s Construction, Neillsville.

A graduate of Neillsville High School in 1949, Erpenbach earned his bachelor’s degree from UW-River Falls, 1956, and his master’s from UW-Madison, 1964. He received a specialist degree in education at UW-Superior in 1969.

His hobbies include camping and traveling, which have taken him through the United States and Europe. His community participation and service has included work as a 4-H assistant leader and as a Boy Scout Master; membership in the Lions Club; the Rotarians; the Neillsville Lodge No. 163 F&A.M.; the Scottish Rite, Valley of Eau Claire; the Zor Temple of Madison; the Wisconsin Association of School District Administrators; the American Vocational Association; the Marshfield Medical Foundation; the Future Farmers of America Alumni Association; the American Legion; and Elks Lodge No. 665.