Jonathan Eig is the author of six books, four of them New York Times best sellers. The New York Times hailed Pulitzer Prize-winning King: A Life as the “definitive” biography of Martin Luther King Jr. The book was awarded the New York Historical Society’s 2024 Barbara and David Zalaznick Book Prize, which is presented annually to the nation’s best work of history or biography. King: A Life was also nominated for the National Book Award.

Georgia Hunter is the author of We Were the Lucky Ones, inspired by a family reunion in 2000 that opened her eyes to the astounding, untold wartime stories of her grandfather, his parents, and his siblings. The book has been published in sixteen languages and has landed in the hands of over a million readers.
Georgia’s personal essays and photos have been featured in the New York Times Book Review, Travelgirl Magazine and on Equitrekking.com. She is also a freelance copywriter in the world of adventure travel.

Sarah Smarsh is a journalist who has covered socioeconomic class, politics and public policy for The New York Times, The Atlantic, National Geographic, The New Yorker, Harper’s and many other publications. She is the award-winning author of Heartland: A Memoir of Working Hard and Being Broke in the Richest Country on Earth. Her new book is She Come By It Natural: Dolly Parton and the Women who Lived her Songs.

Novelist and playwright Ayad Akhtar’swork has been published and performed in over two dozen languages. In addition to the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, he received an award in literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Ayad is the author of the novels Homeland Elegies and American Dervish. As a playwright, he has written Junk, Disgraced, The Who & The What and The Invisible Hand. Brown and Columbia University educated, Ayad is a graduate of Brookfield Central High School. The Milwaukee Repertory Theater has partnered with Akhtar to stage several of his plays including the Pulitzer Prize winning Disgraced.

Joan Biskupic has covered the Supreme Court for 25 years and is the author of several books on the judiciary. She most recently published a biography of Chief Justice John Roberts (The Chief, spring 2019). Her previous books include biographies of Sandra Day O’Connor (2005), Antonin Scalia (2009) and Sonia Sotomayor (2014). Before joining CNN in 2017, Biskupic was the editor-in-charge for Legal Affairs at Reuters and the Supreme Court correspondent for the Washington Post and for USA Today.

Milwaukee native Bud Selig served as Major League Baseball’s ninth commissioner for a record 22 years. His memoir, For the Good of the Game: The Inside Story of the Surprising and Dramatic Transformation of Major League Baseball, chronicles Selig’s career, takes fans inside locker rooms and board rooms, and offers a fascinating account of the process involved in transforming an American institution.

Author of Killers of the Flower Moon and The Lost City of Z, David Grann doesn’t just produce captivating stories— he immerses himself in his reporting to give his stories unmatched pace and intensity. Killers of the Flower Moon was a finalist for the National Book Award and a winner of the Edgar Allan Poe Award, a Spur Award and an Indies Choice Award. Four of his New Yorker articles have been adapted for the screen, including Trial by Fire, The Old Man & The Gun and The White Darkness.

Susan Cain is the co-founder and chief author of the bestsellers Quiet Power: The Secret Strengths of Introverts and Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking, which has been translated into 40 languages. Cain was named one of the world’s top 50 Leadership and Management Experts by Inc. Magazine. Her record-smashing TED Talk has been viewed more than 17 million times.

Isabel Wilkerson spent more than 15 years researching and writing The New York Times bestseller The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration. A winner of several nonfiction awards, this inspiring epic brings to life the story of the largest internal migration in U.S. history. Wilkerson won the Pulitzer Prize for her work as Chicago Bureau Chief of The New York Times in 1994, making her the first black woman in the history of American journalism to win a Pulitzer Prize and the first African American to win for individual reporting.

In his New York Times bestseller How Not to Be Wrong, Jordan Ellenberg shows us how math touches everything we do, in the same way that Freakonomics brought economics into the popular discourse. He unveils the hidden beauty and logic of the world and puts math’s power in our hands–in business and in life. The Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor of Mathematics at UW-Madison, Ellenberg is the author of the “Do the Math” column in Slate. His writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, Wired, and The Boston Globe.

Erik Larson is the master of narrative nonfiction and the award-winning author of four New York Times bestsellers: The Devil in the White City, Thunderstruck, Isaac’s Storm and In the Garden of Beasts. The Devil in the White City remained on the New York Times bestseller lists for more than three years, won an Edgar Award for nonfiction crime writing and was nominated for the National Book Award. His upcoming book, Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania, captures the drama of the disaster that helped place America on the road to World War I. Larson graduated summa cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania, where he studied Russian history, language and culture; and received a masters in journalism from Columbia University. He was a staff writer for The Wall Street Journal and a contributing writer for Time Magazine and has written articles for The Atlantic, Harper’s, and The New Yorker.

Wauwatosa East graduate Jeremy Scahill is national security correspondent for the Nation magazine and author of the New York Times bestsellers Blackwater: The Rise of the World’s Most Powerful Mercenary Army and Dirty Wars: The World is a Battlefield. He is the subject, producer, and writer of the film Dirty Wars, winner of the 2013 Sundance Film Festival prize for US documentary cinematography. The film has been nominated for a 2014 Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature.

David Eagleman is a Guggenheim fellow and holds joint appointments in the Departments of Neuroscience and Psychiatry at Baylor College of Medicine, where he directs the Laboratory for Perception and Action. His influential and highly accessible neuroscience books include the New York Times bestseller Incognito, Live-Wired, and Wednesday is Indigo Blue. His first work of fiction, Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives, was named a Barnes and Noble Best Book of the Year. He writes regularly for the New York Times, Wired, Discover, Slate, and New Scientist, and appears regularly on TV and radio to discuss his twin passions of science and literature.

James Bradley is the bestselling author of Flags of Our Fathers, Flyboys, and The Imperial Cruise. Flags of Our Fathers was released as a movie in 2007 and is a companion film to the Academy Award-nominated Letters from Iwo Jima. In addition to being a writer and corporate leader, he is president of the James Bradley Peace Foundation, which is dedicated to fostering understanding between America and Asia through student exchange. Bradley is a Wisconsin native and graduated from the University of Wisconsin.

Andrew Ross Sorkin, author of Too Big To Fail: The Inside Story of How Wall Street and Washington Fought to Save the Financial System–and Themselves, is The New York Times chief mergers and acquisitions reporter and a columnist. Mr. Sorkin, a leading voice about Wall Street and corporate America, is also the editor of DealBook, an online daily financial report he started in 2001. Among other awards, he won a Gerald Loeb Award, the highest honor in business journalism, in 2004 for breaking news. Mr. Sorkin began writing for The New York Times in 1995, when he had not yet graduated from high school.

Tracy Kidder is a bestselling author, journalist and essayist whose second book, The Soul of a New Machine, received both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award in 1982.  He followed that with House and Among Schoolchildren, which won the Robert F. Kennedy Award in 1989.  Other critically acclaimed works include My Detachment, about his experiences as an army officer in Vietnam and Strength in What Remains, a touching account of a young man who escapes genocide in Burundi to pursue the American dream.  In the inspiring Mountains Beyond Mountains, Kidder tells the timely tale of a compassionate doctor who fights HIV and TB in Haiti.

Bob Woodward received the Pulitzer Prize in 1973 for his reporting with Carl Bernstein on the Watergate Scandal.  His articles for the Washington Post on the aftermath of the 9-11 terrorist attacks won the National Affairs Pulitzer Prize in 2002. He has been called “the most celebrated journalist of our age.” In addition to reporting, Woodward has authored or coauthored 14 bestselling books. He has more #1 nonfiction bestsellers than any contem­porary American author, and three of his books have been made into mov­ies. His latest book, The War Within: A Secret White House History 2006-2008, is the last in his series about the Bush administration.

Dr. Bob Gleeson, M.D. is one of Milwaukee’s foremost specialists in internal medicine. As Medical Director of Northwestern Mutual and President and Chief Medical Director of Health Now, he has dedicated his life to studying the habits of healthy people. In his book What Healthy People Know: And the 7 Things They Do to Stay Healthy and Live Long, Dr. Bob presents the science behind the daily choices that healthy people make to promote good health. He uses solid research to tell us how to lower our risk of chronic disease and enhance our quality of life, which will in turn substantially reduce health care costs and disability rates. A frequent writer and lecturer on wellness, chronic illness and epidemic disease, Dr. Bob is working on a second book, tentatively titled Your New Life, Longer than You Thought.

Steve Rushin joined Sports Illustrated as a reporter after graduating from Marquette University in 1988. Within three years, at age 25, he became the youngest Senior Writer on the magazine’s staff. His “Steve Rushin’s Air and Space” column ran from 1998 through 2007 and concentrated on subjects within and related to sports. In 2005, Rushin was named National Sportswriter of the Year by the National Sportswriters and Sportscasters Association.

Lee Eisenberg is author of The New York Times best seller The Number. The book addresses one of the last taboos — money.  Eisenberg talked to hundreds of baby boomers and financial advisors and came away with evidence about why money is so confusing.  As the former editor-in-chief at Esquire Magazine for nearly 20 years, Eisenberg downsized his career in New York and took a job with Land’s End in rural Wisconsin.

Ron Chernow is a prominent author, lecturer, book reviewer, essayist, and television commentator. Chernow’s biography, Alexander Hamilton, was voted the best biography of 2004 by the editors of Amazon. It was one of the year’s ten best books according to The New York Times and Business Week, and chosen as 2004’s most influential book by Forbes.com.

His Celebrated first book, The House of Morgan, won the National Book Award as 1990’sw best nonfiction book and the Ambassador Award for the year’s most notable volume about American culture. Mr. Chernow’s second book, The Warburgs, won the George S. Eccles Prize for excellence in economic writing, given by the Columbia Graduate School of Business.

Adam Steffan, Theatre Director at Wauwatosa West High School, has built a nationally recognized program. His productions have earned Outstanding Musical Jerry Awards and represented Wisconsin at the National High School Musical Theatre Awards. Tosa West Theatre has also appeared at the International Thespian Festival and been named a Top High School Theatre Program. Mr. Steffan serves on the Board of the Alliance for Wisconsin Theatre Education and as a Chapter Director for Wisconsin Thespians. He has received two Distinguished Service Awards, three EFW grants and was a finalist for the Herb Kohl Teacher Fellowship Award.

Student Winners:

Mirella Altoro, Divine Savior Holy Angels High School

Brendan Reardon, Marquette University High School

Dylan Kebbekus, Pius XI Catholic High School

Emilia Ruggini, Wauwatosa East High School

Olivia Ridolfi, Wauwatosa West High School

Maureen Connors Badding is the founder of Tosa’s All-City Read, a community reading program for the city of Wauwatosa which is in its 11th year. She sits on the boards of the Wauwatosa Woman’s Club and the Wauwatosa Historical Society, and in the past served TosaFest, TOSA Pool, the Wauwatosa Public Library Foundation and the Neighborhood Association Council (NAC). A freelance writer, she was the editor of the weekly city-wide NAC Blast newsletter for nine years. Maureen and her certified therapy dog participate in Read to Roscoe at our children’s library each month.

Student Winners:

Harper Neldner, Divine Savior Holy Angels H.S.

Andrew Kim, Marquette University H.S.

Addison Pape, Pius XI Catholic H.S.

Paddy Oliver, Wauwatosa East H.S.

Lilly Murat, Wauwatosa West H.S.

Perimonique Harris, Wisconsin Lutheran H.S.

Kathy Ehley is a tireless advocate for the arts, education and civic organizations. A graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, she has served on 20 local, regional and state boards, including Education Foundation of Wauwatosa, Milwaukee County Research Park, Wisconsin Center District as board secretary and presently as board chair for MobiliSE. Ehley helped found ABCD – After Breast Cancer Diagnosis – now a national organization, plus served for five years as the executive director of The Village of Wauwatosa Business Improvement District overseeing creation of the district’s strategic development plan. She was elected as the 16th mayor of Wauwatosa in 2012 and served two terms. Kathy lives in Wauwatosa with her husband, Kent.

Student Winners:

Ada Rebholz, Divine Savior Holy Angels H.S.

Declan McCormick, Marquette University H.S.

Erin Roney, Pius XI Catholic H.S.

Lauren Dapelo, Wauwatosa East H.S.

Chloe Ellery, Wauwatosa West H.S.

Eva Kuehn, Wisconsin Lutheran H.S.

Julia and Bladen Burns are dedicated supporters of youth development. Their oldest son’s interest in music and theater introduced Julia and Bladen to First Stage which they supported as patrons, donors, and co-chairs of the Make Believe Ball. The Burns’ also co-chaired the Milwaukee Rep Gala and Bladen currently serves as a Rep trustee and a member of the executive committee. Bladen also serves on the investment committee of the Betty Brinn Children’s Museum, is a director of the Cedar Street Foundation, and a board member of Bridge to Brighter.

Student Winners:

Megan Kelroy, Divine Savior Holy Angels H.S.

Donald (Trey) Cotey III, Marquette University H.S.

Casey Brophey, Pius XI H.S.

Aubrey “Chandler” Tribble, Wauwatosa East H.S.

Olivia Veit, Wauwatosa West H.S.

Nora Stroh, Wisconsin Lutheran H.S.

Michelle Andersen
Peter Bartz, MD
Chasity Brimeyer, PhD
Ann Christiansen, MPH
Leslie Cockerham, MD
Steven Doman
Dr. Phil Ertl
AJ Grove, MD
Heidi Hemling, MS, LPC, NCC, PMH-C
Jenny Hoag, PhD
Marta Kwiatkowski
Katelyn Lasse, BSN, RN, NCSN
Christen A. McAlpine-Tesfai, MD
Andrea Morrison, MD, MS
Marcie Navratil, MD
Melissa Nettesheim
Sean Nolan, DO
Sonja Phillips, LSSW, MS
Allison Reeme, MD
Timothy Richer, MD
Ryan Scheper, MD
Laura Stephens, MPH

Student Winners

Carys Abbott, Divine Savior Holy Angels H.S.

Hayden LeMonds, Marquette University H.S.

Paige Kearney, Pius XI H.S.

Adriana Xiong, Wauwatosa East H.S.

Layla Allen, Wauwatosa West H.S.

As president of Tosa Baseball, Fastpitch Softball and Titans Baseball leagues, Jim Hoefgen has dedicated his time and talents to ensuring that Tosa youngsters learn the fundamentals of baseball and fastpitch softball in a positive and fun environment that emphasizes good sportsmanship. Under his leadership the leagues have thrived, with more than 650 players playing on diamonds all across Wauwatosa. The leagues also employ more than 45 Wauwatosa students as umpires. Jim was also instrumental in raising the funds to renovate two fields and build out an indoor practice facility, all of which are used by teams throughout the community.

Student Winners

Elizabeth Merz, Divine Savior Holy Angels H.S.

Aidan Reno, Marquette University H.S.

Michaela Baudry, Pius XI H.S.

Beatrice Lazarski, Wauwatosa East H.S.

Olivia Casper, Wauwatosa West H.S.

Alyssa Ebeling, Wisconsin Lutheran H.S.

Jeff Roznowski  is a long-time volunteer and community champion, having served as president of the Wauwatosa Historical Society, vice president of the Friends of Hoyt Park and Pool, race director for the Blarney Run for 25 years, co-founder of the MidTown Tosa business group and founder of the Tosa Green Summit. He is a former alderman and member of the Board of Review. He has raised funds in excess of a half-million dollars for various citywide causes, including Safe Routes to School, pediatric ambulance bags and Tosa Skateboarders United.

Student Winners

Anna Wozniak, Divine Savior Holy Angels H.S.

Peter Keepman, Marquette University H.S.

Sydney Nichols, Pius XI H.S.

Augustina Piel, Wauwatosa East H.S.

Eleanor Sear, Wauwatosa West H.S.

Mikaela Sullivan, Wisconsin Lutheran H.S.

Chris Leffler is the owner of several businesses, including Leff’s Lucky Town in Wauwatosa, Revere’s Wells Street Tavern in Delafield, a soon-to-open restaurant in Menomonee Falls, and Locker’s Florists. He is a Tosa native and graduate of Tosa East High School. Chris has been a leader in the community through his work with the Business Improvement District and St. Jude’s School, and he played an instrumental role in the creation of the band shell at Hart Park and the Tosa Tonight Concert Series.

Student Winners

Mia Helbig, Divine Savior Holy Angels H.S.

Joseph Webb, Marquette University H.S.

Susan (Jingyi) Li, Pius Xi H.S.

Mary Mcmahon, Wauwatosa East H.S.

Olivia Keenan, Wauwatosa West H.S.

Mary Newton and Dr. Jim Sanger have been deeply involved in Wauwatosa and beyond since arriving here in the late 1970s. Newton, an attorney, is the co-founder of Danceworks and was instrumental in the formation of Special Needs Tosa. She is the associate director of the Children’s Dyslexia Center and a long-time volunteer and consultant for numerous organizations that seek to improve reading achievement in Wisconsin. Sanger is a respected surgeon, chief of plastic surgery at the Zablocki Veterans Administration Medical Center and a professor at the Medical College of Wisconsin. He volunteers for annual Milwaukee Medical Mission trips to Central and South America and provides free care for bonobos at the Milwaukee County Zoo.

Student Winners

Kathleen Topp, Divine Savior Holy Angels H.S.

Jon Gaines, Marquette University H.S.

Danielle Scholz, Pius Xi H.S.

Emma Hudson-Mairet, Wauwatosa East H.S.

Logan Steinike, Wauwatosa West H.S.

John Kissinger is CEO of Graef, where he has worked on notable projects at the Milwaukee Art Museum, The Wisconsin Center, and Lambeau Field. He serves as vice chairman of the Milwaukee Area Workforce Investment Board and is a member of the Wauwatosa Economic Development Advisory Committee, as well as the Zoological Society and UW-Milwaukee Foundation boards. John serves on the Campaign Cabinets of United Way and the United Performing Arts Fund and is on the Dean’s Cabinet of the College of Engineering and Applied Science at UW-Milwaukee. Hw is an active member of the Greater Milwaukee Committee, serving on its Future Workforce Committee and MiKE Council.

Student Winners

Camila Hernandez, Divine Savior Holy Angels H.S.

George Elliott, Marquette University H.S.

Andrew Scholz, Pius XI H.S.

Madeline Ladd, Wauwatosa East H.S.

Bridget Obligato, Wauwatosa West H.S.

 The Honorable Clare Fiorenza is a Milwaukee Circuit Court judge currently assigned to felony drug court. A graduate of Marquette University Law School and a resident of Wauwatosa since 1988, Judge Fiorenza has served on the Wisconsin State Bar Board of Governors and Wisconsin Trust Account Foundation Board of Directors.

Student Winners

Sophia Altenburg, Divine Savior Holy Angels H.S.

Ryan Mauk, Marquette University H.S.

Abigail Nicholls, Pius Xi H.S.

Amelia Moore, Wauwatosa East H.S.

Joseph Rampolla, Wauwatosa West H.S.

Caroline Krider is senior vice president of National Corporate & Institutional Banking for US Bank. She volunteers for numerous organizations, including the Zoological Society of Milwaukee (Executive Committee, Zoo Ball co-chair), IMPACT, Inc. (Audit and Investment Chair), American Lung Association (Vice Chair), and the Wisconsin Humane Society. She was also an ambassador to the US Women’s Open and is involved in the women’s networking group Professional Dimensions (treasurer and award nominating committee).

Student Winners

Annika Martensson, Divine Savior Holy Angels H.S.

Charles Elliott, Marquette University H.S.

Mary Nink, Pius Xi H.S.

Lidarose (Rosie) Young, Wauwatosa East H.S.

Theresa Canfield, Wauwatosa West H.S.

Michael McCrea is Professor of Neurosurgery and Neurology and Director of Brain Injury Research with the Medical College of Wisconsin. An active researcher in the neurosciences, Dr. McCrea has been a leader in efforts to advance concussion testing among student and adult athletes. He is a member of the US Department of Defense Health Board External Advisory Committee on Traumatic Brain Injury, advising the Office of the Secretary of Defense on management of military-related traumatic brain injury. He is also a member of the National Football League’s Head, Neck, and Spine Committee and a participant in the International Olympic Committee conference on medicine and sport.

Student Winners

Katie Goodwin, Divine Savior Holy Angels H.S.

Benjamin Wojcicki, Marquette University H.S.

John Mullooly, Pius Xi H.S.

Hannah Dion-Kirschner, Wauwatosa East H.S.

Margaret Fuhrman, Wauwatosa West H.S.

Joe Bartolotta was the president and owner of The Bartolotta Restaurants and his wife, Jennifer Bartolotta, is the director of strategic partnerships. Together, they founded the company’s philanthropic arm, Care-a-lottas, which provides direct and in-kind donations to organizations throughout the Milwaukee area. Jennifer is an executive board member for the Wisconsin Humane Society, TEMPO Milwaukee, and Schools that Can Milwaukee. She received the 2011 TEMPO Mentor Award and the 2009 Business Journal Women of Influence Award. Joe sat on the boards of many local organizations and actively supported Susan G. Komen for the Cure, Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation, and St. Marcus School.

Student Winners

Aubrey Murtha, Divine Savior Holy Angels H.S.

John McNabb, Marquette University H.S.

Gretchen Klein, Pius Xi H.S.

Elisabeth Hallanger Bernstein, Wauwatosa East H.S.

Michael Morgan, Wauwatosa West H.S.

Alyssa Mariscal, Wisconsin Lutheran H.S.

Denise Lindberg’s leadership has touched thousands of people in Wauwatosa and beyond. As the volunteer Executive Director of the Friends of Hoyt Park & Pool, she gained community support and raised private funds to build the TOSA Pool at Hoyt Park. Previously, she was instrumental in forming Wauwatosa’s neighborhood associations. She served as president of the Neighborhood Association Council and chaired the Parks, Recreation and Culture Subcommittee for Wauwatosa’s Strategic Planning Committee. Ms. Lindberg has played an integral role in the growth of the Milwaukee Rowing Club and coached countless youngsters in Odyssey of the Mind and Destination ImagiNation.

Student Winners

Nicolette Bardele, Divine Savior Holy Angels H.S.

Benjamin Hushek, Marquette University H.S.

Maria Alioto, Pius XI H.S.

Leslie Dess, Wauwatosa East H.S.

Ellyn Kirtley, Wauwatosa West H.S.

Keelee Roggenbuck, Wisconsin Lutheran H.S.

Mary Ellen Stanek is a pioneering financial services professional, a community leader and mentor to both emerging and experienced leaders. As a Managing Director and Director of Asset Management for Robert W Baird & Co., she has received numerous accolades including being named a top woman portfolio manager by Morningstar.  She serves on the boards of Aurora Health Care, Betty Brinn Children’s Museum, Boys and Girls Clubs, Children’s Hospital Foundation, Journal Communications, Junior Achievement, Marquette University, Medical College of Wisconsin, Northwestern Mutual, United Way and West Bend Mutual Insurance Company.

Student Winners

Cami Kasmerchak, Divine Savior Holy Angels H.S.

Adam Merkt, Marquette University H.S.

Lauren Brown, Wauwatosa East H.S.

Zach Soderberg, Wauwatosa West H.S.

Julia Kent, Wisconsin Lutheran H.S.

Jon Vice provided nearly three decades of leadership for Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin, creating one of the country’s leading medical facilities for pediatric care.  Since becoming president and CEO in 1984, he has overseen the growth of 14 entities, including hospitals, clinics, a research center and a foundation.  Recently retired, he serves on several corporate boards as well as the board of the Children’s Miracle Network.  He has also joined the faculty of his alma mater, the University of Alabama-Birmingham.

Student Winners

Anna Layden, Divine Savior Holy Angels H.S.

Ryan Moss, Marquette University H.S.

Madeline Bersch, Pius XI H.S.

Matthew Patton, Wauwatosa East H.S.

Jaclyn Glaser, Wauwatosa West H.S.

Erica Spiegelberg, Wisconsin Lutheran H.S.

Ann Larson and her late husband, Craig, have been dedicated Wauwatosa volunteers for two generations. When their children were young, both were active in the Washington School PTA. Craig later went on to serve on the Wauwatosa School Board for 25 years and Ann became a devoted supporter and tireless fundraiser for the Wauwatosa East Marching Band, Orchestra and Theater Department. Craig experienced real-life drama as a member of the Underground Traveling Medicine Show, a group of doctors who provided emergency care during stadium and Summerfest concerts. Ann has also been an active volunteer for the Medical Society Balls, raising funds for scholarships, and with the Washington Highlands Homeowners Association. She has served as an election judge at Wauwatosa’s polls for years. Together, they have touched many lives and shown an admirable commitment to making Wauwatosa a better place to live.

Student Winners

Mary Rose Gietl, Divine Savior Holy Angels H.S.

Timothy Lewis, Marquette University H.S.

Erin Skupien, Pius XI H.S.

Hailey Danisewicz, Wauwatosa East H.S.

Kelly Ledoux, Wauwatosa West H.S.

Madalyn Krueger, Wisconsin Lutheran H.S.

Tim Winn has spent 28 years with the Tosa Kickers soccer club. Over that time he has painted lines, scheduled fields, assigned referees, coached boys and girls’ teams and trained referees. When he began, the Tosa Kickers counted fewer than 100 players. Now, as Director of Coaching and Referee Coordinator, Tim oversees a program that touches the lives of about 1,500 young people and their families.

Tim’s love of the game began in grade school. He played soccer in elementary and high school, always as a sweeper, and continued to play competitively until 1995 when under WIAA rules, he had to decide whether to coach his daughter’s team or play himself. He opted to coach the girls’ team. In 1990, he led the Wauwatosa East High School Boys’ soccer team to the State Championship. For the past four years, he has been selected by high school soccer coaches throughout the state to referee the Division 1 WIAA State Soccer Tournament finals. Tim gives credit to the many volunteers, players and their parents for the growth and success of the Tosa Kickers.

Student Winners

Rachel Brown, Divine Savior Holy Angels H.S.

Andrew Pierson, Marquette University H.S.

Carolyn Meinerz, Pius Xi H.S.

Elise Libbey, Wauwatosa East H.S.

Claire Davis, Wauwatosa West H.S.

Kimberly Lehninger, Wisconsin Lutheran H.S.

Ray Perry led Wauwatosa Savings Bank for 45 years until his retirement in 1998. In that role he helped thousands of Wauwatosa residents build or buy homes. Perry has been actively involved in numerous Wauwatosa organizations and made significant contributions to the schools, the library and the historical society, among other area organizations. He was a founding trustee of the Wauwatosa Community Foundation and a founder and early director of the Wauwatosa Economic Development Corporation. He served for 20 years as a director of the Siebert foundation, awarding millions of dollars in grants, mainly to programs that help underprivileged children.

Peggy Rosenzweig represented Wauwatosa first in the Assembly and later in the State Senate from 1983 to 2002. Her achievements were many including legislation addressing healthcare issues and education. More recently, she has served on the University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents and on the boards of several health care and community organizations. She is also a government affairs representative for several healthcare groups.