Oshkosh Boys & Girls Club CEO earns Titan 100 recognition: Your weekly dose
OSHKOSH — Tracy Ogden, CEO at Boys & Girls Club of Oshkosh, has been named a 2024 Wisconsin Titan 100. The Titan 100 program recognizes Wisconsin’s Top 100 CEOs & C-level executives.
Ogden is the first female CEO of the club. She sits on several boards, including vice president for the Boys & Girls Clubs of America Professional Association and co-chair of the Women’s Executive Group, Oshkosh Excellence in Leadership board and serves as a mentor to other professionals.
Under Ogden’s leadership, the Boys & Girls Club of Oshkosh has taken on its largest project to date — the Building Expansion & Hyde Family Community Center Project. Ogden manages the day-to-day details. The campaign for this project is the largest non-profit capital campaign the Fox Valley has seen and the biggest Clubhouse project in the state.
Those named to the Titan list are some of the most accomplished business leaders in their industry, demonstrating exceptional leadership, vision and passion. Honorees will be published in a limited-edition Titan 100 book and profiled exclusively online. They will be recognized at an annual awards ceremony Jan. 18, 2024.
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Oshkosh Museum hosts Día de los Muertos Oct. 28
The Oshkosh Public Museum will hold its second annual free community celebration of Día de los Muertos (Day of the Dead) Oct. 28. From 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., museum visitors can share in this traditional celebration.
A community altar will be on display, visitors can make crafts and watch performances by Ballet Folklórico Xanharati dancers and mariachi.
Free face painting will be offered, along with free showings of Disney Pixar’s “Coco” at the Time Community Theater. The Spanish-language matinee is at 2 p.m., and an English-language showing is at 7 p.m.
The museum will be admission-free all day Oct. 28. For more information, visit oshkoshmuseum.org.
Learn about Oshkosh's woodworkers strike at Nov. 2 program
The “Great Oshkosh Woodworkers Strike of 1898,” one of the city’s most historic events, will be remembered at a public forum at 5:30 p.m. Nov. 2 at the Oshkosh Public Library.
Triggered by the pent-up demand of workers for fair wages, the 14-week strike drew national attention and brought famed attorney Clarence Darrow to the city to successfully plead for a dismissal of conspiracy charges against three of the strike leaders.
The acquittal of the unionists had nationwide impact on the rights of workers to form unions and to strike.
Garden Club sets monthly meeting; announces speaker for scholarship luncheon
The Oshkosh Garden Club will meet at 5:30 p.m. Nov. 2 at Delta Restaurant, 515 N. Sawyer St., Oshkosh.
The meeting begins with socializing and dinner, followed by the monthly meeting at 6:30 p.m.
Nov. 11, David Kersztyn, from the Military Veterans Museum, will be the featured speaker at the Oshkosh Garden Club’s annual scholarship luncheon. The luncheon will be at the Best Western Hotel on Main Street.
Kersztyn will talk about the origin of Veterans Day and the development of the local veterans’ museum, future expansion, and how Victory Gardens were started.
Basket raffles and a bake sale will be included. Tickets for the luncheon are $30 and can be purchased online at oshkoshgardenclub.org.
Since 1982, the Oshkosh Garden Club has given $42,500 to 22 high school students from the four Oshkosh high schools, majoring in a field of science.
Women invited to sing with Fox Valley Chorus
The Fox Valley Chorus of Sweet Adelines invites women to its holiday chorus rehearsals Tuesdays in November. Rehearsals begin at 7 p.m. Nov. 7, 14, 21 and 28 at First Presbyterian Church, 200 S. Church St., Neenah.
Women can learn a few songs, and then sing with the chorus for three performances Dec. 2, 5 and 7. There is no cost or commitment involved.
For more information, contact Terrie at 920-740-6551 or foxvalleychorus@gmail.com, or visit foxvalleychorus.org.
Two Oshkosh natives honored with UWO alumni awards
Jeffery Gerritt and Marc Nylen are among the 11 University of Wisconsin Oshkosh alumni honored for their achievements during Homecoming 2023 activities.
Gerritt, an Oshkosh native now in living in Detroit, earned a Distinguished Alumni Award. He is a 1978 philosophy and music major and serves as the editorial page editor for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. He has earned more than 60 national and state journalism awards, including the Pulitzer Prize.
Nylen, of Oshkosh, earned the Alumni Outstanding Service Award for his contributions in support of UWO. He is a 1991 Spanish major who also earned his master’s degree in counseling in 1993 and now serves as the associate director of residence life and director of Gruenhagen Conference Center/Residence Life Conference Service at UW Oshkosh. He has advanced in administration of the department and serves on numerous committees, is active in his community and his Catholic parish community.
United Way opens new community vault, seeks donations
Oshkosh Area United Way continues to collect essential supplies for the new LIVE UNITED Community Vault at its 16 Washington Ave., Oshkosh, location. Local nonprofits are able to access these supplies year-round to assist community members in need.
Items most urgently needed are shampoo, body wash, deodorant, shaving cream, razors, laundry detergent, pull-ups, baby wipes, toilet paper, paper towels, plates and plastic silverware.
For a complete list of supplies needed, ideas about how to organize a collection drive, and information about how and where to drop off donations, visit oshkoshunitedway.org/collectiondrive, call 920-235-8560 or email oauw@oshkoshunitedway.org.
ThedaCare's Neenah hospital reverified Level II Trauma Center
ThedaCare Regional Medical Center-Neenah has been reverified as a Level II Trauma Center. The verification is valid for three years, until May 2026.
A committee of the American College of Surgeons reviewed materials provided by ThedaCare trauma team members. The program confirms that a trauma center has demonstrated its commitment to providing the highest quality trauma care. There are five separate categories of verification: Level I Trauma Center, Level II Trauma Center, Level III Trauma Center, Level I Pediatric Trauma Center and Level II Pediatric Trauma Center, each with specific criteria that must be met by a facility seeking that level of verification.
“As an ACS Verified Level II Trauma Center, patients can be confident in knowing they are receiving the highest quality of trauma care from ThedaCare,” Dr. David Schultz, director of the Trauma Center, said in a news release. “It takes the work of a large team of people throughout the hospital to meet the high standards set by the American College of Surgeons for a Level II Trauma Center.”
ThedaCare Regional Medical Center-Neenah is one of nine adult Level II trauma centers in Wisconsin, and has been continuously verified since 1998.
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