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Featured Announcement

The Hackberry tree outside the R.A. DuFresne Performing Arts Center on WSU’s campus is scheduled to be removed due to safety concerns.

This tree has stood in its place and served passers-by as a silent witness, provider, and campus benefactor for about 115 years (1905-2020).

Learn more about this century-tree whose long life served witness to most of WSU’s 162-year history.


Newsletters

Stay up to date with events and announcements with the WSU Retiree Center Newsletter.


Contribute to the WSU Retiree Newsletter

If you would like to contribute to the Retiree Center Newsletter, send articles or ideas for columns to the WSU Retiree Center at retiree@winona.edu.

All submissions will be considered for publication if they meet the following publishing deadlines:

  • Spring Newsletter: Jan. 15
  • Summer Newsletter: April 15
  • Fall Newsletter: July 15
  • Winter Newsletter: Oct. 15

In Memoriam

The WSU Retiree Center remembers the faculty, staff and administrative retirees that have contributed talent, time, expertise and energy that have established WSU as the excellent institution of higher learning and a place of employment in southern Minnesota.

Licari, Patrick - Jan. 3. 2021 
Fick, Don - Jan. 29, 2021 
Foegen, Joseph Henry - Feb. 9, 2021
Grangaard, Elizabeth - March 12, 2021
Nicholas, James - May 18, 2021
Meyers, Jamie Ann - May 20, 2021
Mullen, Karleen - May 23, 2021
Sawer, Neil (spouse of Ann) - March 26, 2021
Briggs, Brian Jeffrey - May 29, 2021 
Keister, Carmen L. (Spouse of Robert) - July 8, 2021
Anderson, Gerald "Jerry" - August 17, 2021
Hopkins, Richard "Dick" - September 6, 2021
Bellman, William James (Spouse of Jean) - October 4, 2021
Fitzgerald, Arden Ernest - October 21, 2021
Van Poperin, Evelyn "Jo"( Spouse of Hank) - October 23, 2021
Schultz. Robert John - November 23, 2021
Safranek, Margaret "Jean" - December 6, 2021

Loewen, Judith Ann - December 22, 2021 

Bender, Donald J.- March 23, 2020
Bender, Marlene (spouse of Donald) - Sep. 9, 2020
Butterfield, Ronald C. - July 30, 2020
Chuchna, Dorothy - May 31, 2020
Hungerford, Robert - June 1, 2020
Locks, Joyce - June 4, 2020
Moravec, Marjorie - Nov. 26, 2020
Palokangas, Jane Elaine (Merila)- Jan. 20, 2020
Ronkowski, Steven - July 27, 2020
Routhe, Robert (spouse of Judy) - Oct. 17, 2020
Schaber, Richard- Jan. 4, 2020
Spande, Michael George- March 17, 2020
Wilsey, Roy W.- April 14, 2020 
Verdick, Patty - May 18, 2020