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The unexamined lie is not worth living. Socrates
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Many o you who are long time supporters o the Wisconsin Humanities Council may notice
that we have a brand new logo. This interlocking set o three dialogue balloons represents the
meeting o multiple points o view and the lively conversations that occur within the structure
o a WHC program. We think our new tag line community through conversation distills our
mission nicely, and we hope it inspires you to look into WHC-backed initiatives in your part o
the state. Better yet, perhaps you will be inspired to write your own grant proposal and design a
provocative, lively public humanities program or your own community.
Your support o the WHC demonstrates that you believe that the humanities help shape the
civic inrastructure o our nation. Indeed, while it is our physical inrastructureroads, bridges,
borders, and public utilitiesthat make us a nation, it is our civic inrastructureour stories,
songs, belies, and valuesthat make us a civilization worth celebrating and preserving.
We thank you or your continued support,
Dean Bakopoulos
Executive Director
DEAR FRIENDS OF THE WHC:
Karla MullenWHC Chair, Watertown, WI
CONTENTS
LetterfromtheWHC 3
WhatAretheHumanities? 4
WhatWeDo 5
WHCSpeakersBureau 6
Wiscons inBookFest ival 8
Motheread/Fatheread10
AMorePerfectUnion12
BetweenFences14
WHCGrantProgram 16
2006Grants 18
Suppo rt t he Humani ti es 20
PowerofPartnerships 21
MajorDonors 22
WHCBoardandStaff 23
ContactInformation 24
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HISTO RY CULTURAL ANTHRO PO LO GY L ITERATURE
PHILOSO PHY AND ETHICS F O REIGN LANGUAGES
AND CULTURES THE HISTORY, THEORY, AND CRITICIS M
OF THE ARTS COMPARATIVE RELIGION LINGUISTICS
FOLKLORE PHILOSOPHY OF LAW ARCHEOLOGY
Established in 1972 as an independent aliate o the National Endowment o the
Humanities, the Wisconsin Humanities Council is a nonprot, nonpartisan organization
that supports public programs that engage the people o Wisconsin in the exploration o
human cultures, ideas, and values. We do this with the conviction that our communities
are strengthened with civil and inormed conversations.
Each year, the WHC receives ederal unding rom the NEH, which we use to leverage
state, individual, corporate, and oundation support at the local level. We also extend our
ederal dollars by orming partnerships with both state and local organizations. The WHC,
or example, works closely with the Cultural Coalition o Wisconsin and the University
o WisconsinExtension. In doing so, we help to build a stronger network among
cultural institutions.
WHAT WE DO
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6Our library had the pleasure of having
Christopher Goetz come and give us his
Talk with the Past . Not only was he
well-prepared and personable, but he
captivated our audience for over onehour. The passion he has for his histor-
ical character and history were clearly
evident. Audience members said, Bring
him back; he was GREAT!
Jennier Einwalter,
slinger community library,
on christopher goetzs chautauqua
presentation on civil war lie, Talk with the Past
Since 1991, the WHC Speakers Bureau has oered educational and entertaining humanities
presentations and in-character historical Chautauqua perormances in nearly every county
in Wisconsin, bringing discussions about poetry, world religions, archaeology, olklore,
history, and much more to every corner o the state.
The size o our Speakers Bureau audiences continues to increase. For the 2004 2005 cata-
logue years, almost 12,000 people attended one of the 267 Speakers Bureau presentations
around Wisconsin. Encouragingly, one-third o these events were hosted by organizations in
Wisconsin that had never beore applied to host a Speakers Bureau event. These new requests
came rom proessional groups, librar ies, social clubs, m iddle schools, social advocacy groups,
conservation groups, religious centers, museums, and churches and attest to the growing
(and glowing!) reputation o the WHC Speakers Bureau.
WHC SPEAKERS BUREAU
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The Festival served again as one of
Madisons most fantastic events, a ve-day
gathering that would make big-city dwellers
drop their reading glasses in awe. I heard
18 authors, seven poets, and a British
woman who translated a novel from
Spanish to English. Bolstered by Wisconsin
authors and others with signicant ties to
the Dairyland state, the Festival [delivered]
many memorable moments.
This was my rst time at the event
and it was amazing for me as a young
person. Events like these are crucial
for the expression and education of
young people through literature
and the arts.
Survey Respondent
Ive been to many book festivals
over the years and simply put, yours
was by far the most excellent and
most exciting.
Carol Houck Smith, Senior Editor
ww norton, new york
Tom Alesia,
Wisconsin State Journal
Through a unique partnership between the public, private, and academic sectors, the
Wisconsin Book Festival celebrates our states rich literary heritage, brings some o Americas
nest writers to the people o Wisconsin, and encourages Wisconsinites o all ages to read
widely and to read well. The Wisconsin Book Festival is the states largest literary festival
with annual attendance reaching 15,000 attendees and one of the largest free literary
events in the nation.
Each year the Festival hosts over 100 events, including author readings, panel discussions,
writing workshops, exhibitions, and youth poetry slams.
In recent years, Festival presenters have included Wisconsin avorites Jane Hamilton,
Lorrie Moore, Jacquelyn Mitchard, David Maraniss, Michael Perry, Denise Sweet, Mark
Turcotte, and Kevin Henkes. We have also welcomed nationally-acclaimed literary stars like
Michael Chabon, Isabel Allende, Edwidge Danticat, and Grace Paley; U.S. Poet Laureates
Billy Collins and Ted Kooser; nationally-acclaimed poets like Martn Espada, Sam Hamill, and
Luis Rodriguez; National Public Radio reporters Anne Garrels and Noah Adams; historians
Howard Zinn and Joseph Ellis; and graphic novelists Chris Ware and Marjane Satrapi.
WISCONSIN BOOK FESTIVAL
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QUOTE
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Motheread/Fatheread has truly touched the hearts
o many amilies in the La Crosse School District, both
through the power o the group and the power o the
stories themselves. Parents leave eeling empowered
and motivated to read with their children, and have
a true understanding o how reading together not only
benefts their child academically, but also brings them
closer as a amily.
Sandy Brauer,
Director of Curriculum & Staff Development ,
la crosse school district
Motheread/Fatheread is a amily literacy program that does something amazing: it helps
parents who are poor readers become condent and excited about reading aloud to their
children. And because it has been shown that the most important predictor o a childssuccess in school is whether he or she is read to at home, parents who participate in
Motheread/Fatheread are breaking the generational cycle o school ailure.
As the exclusive Wisconsin provider o the Motheread/Fatheread Family Literacy program,
the WHC trains teachers, literacy instructors, librarians, and other literacy proessionals in
this nationally acclaimed instructional approach and curriculum. Motheread/Fatheread
introduces parents with limited literacy to high quality childrens literature and encourages
amilies to read together. The curriculum appeals to a very powerul motivation in parents:
the desire to help their children learn.
MOTHEREAD FATHEREAD
Family Literacy Program
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A More Perfect Union offers
themed book discussions to
our librarys book club. We
often talk about the future
of the United States in our
discussions. Going back to
our roots as a nation with
this series is a unique
experience for the club.
Cecilia Wiltzius, Library Director,
karl jungunger memorial library
The books dealt with difcult subjects,
sometimes horrible events. But we
need to face these things. Good change
is possible. We need to be hopeful
and active.
2005AMPU participant in Janesville
I read all the books, understood a little, and learned much
more from the discussions. It was well worth my time.
2005AMPU participant rom Presque Isle
Since its inception in 2004, hundreds o Wisconsin residents each year have joined our ree
book discussion series. A More Perect Union prompts readers to examine various aspects o
the U.S. Constitutionboth its ideals and its realities. We lend teen copies o the books
and accompanying discussion guides to any group in Wisconsin that meets in a public space
and publicly advertises its meetings. We will even pay or a scholar to join the group to
enrich the conversation about one or more o the books.
Taking its inspiration rom the Constitutions Preamble, the WHC structures each years
theme around its phrases. In 2005 the theme was The Common Deense. In 2006 it was
To Establish Justice. The theme in 2007 is To Ensure Domestic Tranquility.
The WHC has also proudly hosted A More Perect Union authors (including Marge Piercy,
Tim OBrien, Anthony Grooms, and Jonathan Harr) at the Wisconsin Book Festival.
A MORE PERFECT UNIONBook Discussion Series
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I was really impressed by the applications
we received, said Jessica Becker, Senior
Program ofcer at the WHC and coordinator
for the Between Fences tour. Clearly these
issues are extremely relevant in Wisconsin
today and the exhibition tour is a wonderful
opportunity for communities throughout
the state to explore their history, celebrate
their unique stories, and break down fences
that are no longer needed.
Support from the WHC allows the
River Arts Center to bring a Smithson-
ian exhibition to our small town.
We appreciate this unique opportunity
to explore our communitys history
and enhance our cultural programs.
B. Tracy Madison,
Sauk Prairie BetweenFences Coordinator
14We live between encespersonal, national, geo-political, conceptual. And as we dismantle
boundaries we no longer need, we also erect new barriers. From picket ences to chain links
to barbed wire and beyond, ences imply security, decoration, ownership, and industry.
They dictate our behavior and cement property lines. But who denes that property? How
have rivals negotiated boundaries in the past? And how do we reinorce our borders today?
Beginning in the all o 2007, Between Fences, a traveling Museums on Main Street exhibition
rom the Smithsonian Institute, will spend six weeks each in Waupaca, Hales Corners, LaFarge,
Sauk Prairie, Clear Lake, and Cable. The exhibition will be hosted by small museums,
community centers, libraries, and historic sites that were selected through a competitive
application process. Each community will celebrate the Smithsonian coming to town with
related events and programs.
Designed or communities o 10,000 residents or less, Between Fences reveals how central
the ence is to the American landscape. The exhibitions assemblage o tools, images, literature
and, o course, encesprompt us to refect on the role o the ence in our lives and see a
common icon in new ways.
BETWEEN FENCESA Smithsonian Museums on Main Street Exhibition
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There would be no DC Everest Oral
History program without the fnancial
support o WHC This support has
allowed students at DCE to link integrally
with veterans, elderly olks, and business
and political leaders o our community.
WHC has created an opportunity or
our students to learn history through the
people o our community. The ability to
actually publish and share the end results
has given our community a lasting
record o its history.
Paul Aleckson,
Social Studies Coordinator,
d.c. everest area schools
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in2006 the
WHC awarded one or more
GRANTSin21 countiesand hosted one or more
council - conducted
PROGRAMSin
46countiesacross wisconsin.
The WHCs grant program provides support or public humanities programs that encourage
audiences to converse, connect, and refect upon our world through the lens o the humani-
ties. From museum exhibitions to library book discussion programs, rom media projectsto programs that enhance humanities education or children, WHC grants enrich the civic
and cultural lie o the state. WHC-unded programs are designed or a public audience and
involve at least one scholar rom a humanities discipline.
WHC GRANT PROGRAM
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New Berlin Public Library
$350for A More Perect Union: The Common Deense
Friends o the Dwight FosterPublic Library
$600for A More Perect Union: The Common Deense
Urban League o Greater Madison
$1,650for City o Madison-Dane County
Martin Luther King, Jr. Coalition
Wisconsin Veterans Museum Foundation
$2,000for Disentangling the Iraq War: History,
Politics, the Media, and the Veteran Experience
Center or the Study oUpper Midwestern Cultures
$2,000for Wisconsin Englishes
Kennedy Heights Community Center
$2,000for Many Cultures, One Community Exhibit
Kickapoo Valley Friends (Quaker) Meeting
$10,000for Vanished: German-American Civilian
Internment, 194148
Eau Claire CountySesquicentennial Commission
$8,500for Eau Claire County:
Changing Roles In Changing Times, 1856-2006
University o Wisconsin-La Crosse
$4,000for
International Conerence on Rivers
and Civilization: Multidisciplinary Perspectives
on Major River Basins
The Sterling North Society
$4,425for Edgerton Book Festival
The Board o Regents o theUniversity o Wisconsin System
$5,000for Production and Promotion o Literature
o the Indian Nations o Wisconsin
SELECTED GRANTS AWARDED IN 2006
Friends o the Dwight FosterPublic Library
$800for Jeerson County Reads, 2006
Milwaukee County Historical Society
$2,000for Miss Annie Maes Hats Public Programs
Justiceworks, Ltd.
$1,440for Jail in the Justice System: A Symposium on
Incarceration in Our Community and Alternatives
Ashland/Bayfeld County Leagueo Women Voters
$2,000for Toward A More Perect Union: League o
Women Voters as a Champion o Good Government
and Participatory Democracy in Two Rural Wisconsin
Counties, 1956-2006
Forgotten Wisdom, Inc.
$1,100for Frank Belanger Settlement Project
River Falls Community Arts Base
$1,955for The River in Literature and History:
A Childrens Poetry Writing Project
Telemark Educational Foundation, Inc.
$1,951for Northwest Wisconsin Childrens
Book Conerence
Labor Education & Training Center
$2,000for Madison Sesquicentennial Labor Mural
Rusk County Community Library$600for A More Perect Union: To Establish Justice
Superior Public Library
$800for A More Perect Union: To Establish Justice
Portage County Public Library
$400for A More Perect Union: To Establish Justice
The Center or the Humanities(The Board o Regents o UW-System)
$9,900for Don Quixote in Wisconsin
D.C. Everest Junior & Senior High Schools
$9,875 for The 1920s
Fox Cities Childrens Museum
$10,000for En Mi Familia: Celebrating
Family Traditions
Literary Arts Committee,Eau Claire Regional Arts Center
$8,795for Chippewa Valley Book Festival
Jane Morgan Memorial Library
$600for A More Perect Union: To Establish Justice
Viterbo University$2,000for The Viterbo Womens Studies Symposium,
Women Speak: Listening to Womens Voices Within
& Beyond the Academic Disciplines
Mississippi Valley ArchaeologyCenter at UW-La Crosse
$2,000for Archaeology Day at Silver Mound
Neillsville Public Library
$400for A More Perect Union: To Establish Justice
UW-Marathon County
$10,000for Shared Reading/Shared Though
A Campus/Community Dialogue about Afu
UW-Parkside Benevolent Foundatio
$10,000for The Racine Odyssey Project,
a Clemente Course in the Humanities
UW-Oshkosh
$9,807for Black Thursday Remembered:
An Oral History o the 1968 Arican AmericanProtests at Wisconsin State University-Oshko
Wisconsin Academy o Sciences,Arts and Letters
$2,910for Wisconsins People on the Land
Heritage Hill Foundation
$10,000for Chie Oshkosh on Trial
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Please make a tax-deductible contribution to
the Wisconsin Humanities Council today.
Your donation helps us make the humanities
part o everyday lie or everyone in Wisconsin.
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$50: Travel expenses for one in-state humanities scholar to visit witha book discussion group.
$100: Ten books for the ongoingA More Perfect Union statewide bookdiscussion series.
$500: All expenses for one WHC Speakers Bureau event in one ofhundreds of towns around Wisconsin.
$1,000: Three scholarships for literacy instructors to be trained in thenationally acclaimed Motheread/Fatheread Family Literacy
curriculum. (In turn, each of these instructors reaches upwards of100 Wisconsin families per year.)
$2,000: One mini-grant to support a cultural event or exhibition at oneof Wisconsins hundreds of vibrant cultural centers.
$5,000: Events with nationally renowned authors at the WisconsinBook Festival
$10,000: A grant partnership pool to the district or interest area ofyour choice.
Here are examples o what your
donation can contribute:
We truly appreciate your support.
The Wisconsin Humanities Council workswith a number o businesses and organiza-
tions to expand our services across the state.
Most notably, the WHC arranges partner-
ship pools that match private donations
with ederal unding, thus expanding the
capacity o our grant program and channel-
ing resources into specic areas o interest.
POWER OF PARTNERSHIPSThe Boldt Company, a Wisconsin construction services firm based
in Appleton, sponsors our newest partnership pool: The Future
of Farming & Rural Life in Wisconsin. This initiative encourages
organizations in smaller cities and towns to generate creative
public humanities programs that examine the changing nature of
agriculture and community life in rural Wisconsin. Thanks to the
Boldt Company, the WHC will award grants in 2006 and 2007 to
organizations based in communities with populations of 5,000
residents or less, whose programs explore the rich and diversehistories, stories, and values of Wisconsins evolving rural and
agricultural heritage.
Another of our partnership pools pairs resources from the WHC
and the Jeffris Family Foundation to create a special fund to sup-
port Historic Preservation Program Grants. These funds are set
aside specifically for projects that enhance our appreciation of
historic preservation, and increase public awareness of the impor-
tance of particular historic buildings or decorative art works
in Wisconsin.
For more
inormation,
contact
Dean Bakopo
Executive Di
at 608-265-5
Perhaps your organization
should consider a
WHC partnership pool.
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Major Donors& Sponsors($10,000 or more)
Argosy Foundation
The Boldt Company
Borders Group, Inc.
Cyberius Network
Dane County Cultural Aairs Commission
Distillery Design Studio
The Evjue Foundation(the charitable armofThe Capital Times)
IMS
Isthmus
Jeris Family Foundation
National Endowmentor the Arts
Pleasant T. RowlandFoundation
Verizon Foundation
VQR: The VirginiaQuarterly Review
Wisconsin StateDepartment o Tourism
Other Corporate& OrganizationalSupport
Alliant Energy Foundation
All Writers Workplace& Workshop
American FamilyInsurance Group
Cooperative ChildrensBook Center
The Country Today
Douglas Stewart Company
Federation o StateHumanities Councils
Friends o theUW-Madison Libraries
Harry W. SchwartzBookshops
Herbert H. Kohl Charities, Inc.
Madison Arts Commission
Madison AreaReading Council
Madison CommunityFoundation
The Madison ConcourseHotel and Governors Club
Madison Public Library
Mosse/Weinstein Centeror Jewish Studies
Shepherd Express
Starbucks
The SWC Group
TargetUniversity o Wisconsin Press
UW-Extension
UW-Madison Libraries
Wal-Mart
Webcraters, Inc.
Wisconsin Academy oSciences, Arts and Letters
Wisconsin Public Radio
Directors Circle($300 or more)
Dean Bakopoulos and Amanda Okopski
Oscar C. and Patricia H. Boldt
Tom and Renee Boldt
Paul and Ann Boyer
David Brostrom
Elaine Burke
Henry Drewal
Joyce and William Erickson
Peg and Dan Geisler
Terry Haller
Max and Ann Harris
Jacqueline and James Klimaszewski
Nancy and Arthur Laskin
Kathleen McElroy andDavid Newby
Karla and Bill Mullen
Stephen Myck
Ellen Nelson
Shawn Schey
Carol Smart
Lynde B. Uihlen
Daniel and Selma Van Eyck
Gerald Viste
Arthur and Clarice Wortzel
Friends o the WHC
Seymour andShirley Abrahamson
Dwight Allen
Lynn Archer
Richard and Elizabeth Askey
George and Patricia Bakopoulos
Robert and Janice Baldwin
Jessica Becker
Maurice and Sybil Better
Bennett Berson
Allan G. and Margaret R. Bogue
Jane Bowers
Stephen J. Books
Bonnie G. Buchanan
Roger Buett
Deborah Buton
Glenna Carter
Martha and Charles Casey
Alison Jones Chaim
Jack and Beverly Christ
Carol Cohen
Anne M. and Timothy J. Connor
Donald Cress
James P. Danky
James DeLine
M. DeMatties
Jerome K. Dombraski
Janet Dykema
Joseph and Joann Elder
Karen Faster
Reggie Finlayson
Julie Frankl
Gail Geiger
Harlan and Elaine Grinde
Joan and George Hall
Jane Hamblen
John Hanson
Wayne and Janet Hanson
Bev Harrington
Standish and Jane Henning
Rebecca Holmes
C.J. Hribel
Margaret Banta Humleker
Barbara andThomas Hulseberg
Beverly Jambois
Steve Klaven and Merija Eisen
Constance Klotz
Mary Knapp
Heidi Stibbe Knight
Mary Knight
Robert J. andBarbara B. Knowlton
Don Kynaston
Ann Lacy
Marvin G. Lansing
Ed Linenthal
Connie Loden
Eddie R. and Astride H. Lowry
Anne Lucke
Nancy O. Lurie
Lesleigh Luttrell
Esther Mackintosh
Helen H. Madsen
Richard MagyarKathy Engen Malkasian
Denise Marino andHerbert Paaren
Tilney Marsh
Susan McLeod
Charlotte Meyer
Judith Claire Mitchell
Judy Moore
Steven Nadler
Kathleen Orosz
Joseph L. and Mary D. Ousley
Lloyd W. and Margaret T. Page
Kay Plantes
Hannah Pinkerton
Agnes Posbrig
Charlie P. Ries
donors to the
WHC in the
2005 and 2006
fscal years
include:
Karla Mullen, Chair
watertown
Ral Galvn, Vice-Chair
Milwaukee Public Television
Steven M. Taylor, Treasurer
Marquette University
milwaukee
David Brostrom
Waukesha Public Library
Henry John Drewal
UW-Madison
Janet Dykema
Wisconsin Historical Society
eau claire
*Joyce Erickson
kenosha
Reginald Finlayson
Milwaukee Area
Technical College
Jean M. Fleet
Riverside University
High School
milwaukee
John Hanson
Northern Pictures, Inc.
bayfeld
Jacqueline Klimaszewski
Appleton Area School District
*Mary Knapp
Madison Public Library
*Connie Loden
Heart o Wisconsin
Business and
Economic Alliance
wisconsin rapids
Stephen R. Myck
The Douglas Stewart
Company
madison
Wayne Patterson
St. Norbert College
de pere
Joyce E. Salisbury
UW-Green Bay, Emerita
*Kou Vang
Cardinal Stritch University
milwaukee
*Bobbi Webster
Oneida Nation
Kris Adams Wendt
Rhinelander District Library
Susanne Wofford
UW-Madison
Margarita Zamora
UW-Madison
Dean Bakopoulo
Executive Directo
Dena Wortzel
Associate Directo
Director o Progra
Jessica Becker
Senior Program O
Alison Jones Cha
Director,
Wisconsin Book
Michael Kean
Director o Admi
& Finance
Shawn Shey
Administrative
Masarah Van Eyc
Director o Develo
& Communicatio
WHC Board
Members* Governors Appointee
WHC Sta Joseph RodriguezJane Roeber
Janet Ross
Mike Russell
Martin and Melissa Scanlan
Renie Shapiro
P.M. and Carrie Sherrill
Carol and Dean Schroeder
Judith L. Strasser
Steven M. Taylor
Libby Temkin
Carol Tennessen
Mr. and Mrs.L. William Teweles
Sara Toenes
Sandi Torkildson
Michael andCarol Troyer-Shank
Harry Van Camp
Masarah Van Eyck
Linda VandenBerg
Peg and Ron Wallace
G. Lane and Linda Ware
Norma and Ralph Wehlitz
George Wells andSally Hammond
Kris Adams Wendt
Amanda Werhane
Robin Whyte
Ralph and Jo Wickstrom
David K. andKaren M. Williams
Dena Wortzel
Margarita Zamora
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