| News Releases
UW-Fond du Lac selects Sandi
Roehrig as 2009 Distinguished Alumni Award
recipient
 Posted
9/9/09.—The University of Wisconsin-Fond du Lac
has selected Sandi Roehrig of Fond du Lac to
receive its 2009
Distinguished Alumni Award.
Sandi enrolled at UW-Fond du Lac in 1969,
attending for one year before transferring to
UW-Oshkosh where she earned a bachelor’s degree
in physical education and health. She has been
an active volunteer in the community for youth
sports, education and public service.
At UW-Fond du Lac, Sandi met fellow student
and her first husband, Joe Braun, who died in
1982. Sandi raised their three sons, Joe, Rocky
and Mike. In 1995 she married Bob Roehrig.
Sandi has been with the
Fond
du Lac Area Foundation since 1992 and has
served as the executive director since 1995.
In the community, Sandi has served as
president of the YMCA Board of Directors,
vice-president and secretary of the Quarterback
Club Board of Directors, former president of the
UW-Fond du Lac Foundation and is a founding
member of the Board of Directors of the Fond du
Lac Arts Council. She is the recipient of the
Wisconsin Cluster of YMCA’s “Key Leaders Award”
and serves as a member of the Fond du Lac YMCA
Board of Trustees.
Sandi has also held leadership positions in
numerous community organizations including the
Fond du Lac County Volunteer Center, Women’s
Fund, Chapter BD of the P.E.O. Sisterhood, Noon
Rotary, Women’s HOPE Network, Arts Advisory
Steering Committee, Safe and Stable Families
Advisory Council, Healthy Communities Steering
Committee, Leadership Fond du Lac Steering
Committee, Fond du Lac Area Association of
Commerce Education Committee and Service League
along with many others.
The campus has impacted several members of
Sandi’s family. Her sister Cheri Royea
Basler, her brother Rob Royea and her sons Rocky
Braun and Joe Braun, all attended UW-Fond du
Lac.
A seven-member selection committee
representing all areas of the university
community; students, faculty, staff and alumni
selected Sandi for this award.
She will be honored at the UW-Fond du Lac
Foundation’s annual donor and scholarship
reception on Sept. 16 in the University Center
Commons at UW-Fond du Lac.
This is the sixth year the university has
presented this award. Past recipients include
Brenna Garrison-Bruden (2004), Don Noe (2005),
Paul Rosenfeldt (2006), Robert (Bob) Carew
(2007), and Oscar Kraus (2008).
A brick commemorating Sandi’s selection as
the Distinguished Alumni Award recipient will be
engraved with her name and placed in the UW-Fond
du Lac Foundation’s Celebration Walk outside the
main entrance of the university.
For more information about UW-Fond du Lac
call (920) 929-1100.
« BACK to Main News Page
|
