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1000 Friends of Wisconsin, Inc.
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2008-2009 Officers: Kine Torinus, President Patrick Gallagher, Vice-President Jean Wells, Treasurer Margaret Burlingham, Secretary Steve Born, Immediate Past President
Steve Born, Immediate Past President, of Madison is Professor Emeritus and former Chair of the Urban and Regional Planning Department at the University of Wisconsin. Steve brings experience from service on many boards, including the River Alliance of Wisconsin and Trout Unlimited, where he served as chairman of the National Resources Board. He is passionate about fly fishing and is co-author of “Exploring Wisconsin Trout Streams” (UW Press) and writes for conservation/angling periodicals.
Margaret Burlingham, Secretary, is the principal of her consulting firm, LanDesign. She provides park planning and design, land use planning, and rain garden design and installation services to public sector clients. Margaret and her husband Tom operate Langmanor Farm near Palmyra in Jefferson County where they grow 500 acres of hay, corn, soybeans and wheat, and custom bale hay. Margaret has BS degrees in Agronomy and Landscape Architecture from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. In addition to the 1000 Friends of Wisconsin board, she serves on the Washington County Comprehensive Land Use Plan-Land Use and Transportation Committee, WDNR Glacial Heritage Area External Advisory Team, the Rock River Coalition Planning the Rock Issue Team, and is a volunteer stream quality monitor. In her spare time Margaret enjoys participating in Thoroughbred racehorse partnerships and retraining a retired race horse, photography, kayaking, hiking, gardening, travel, and reading.
Walter John Chilsen of Wausau served in the State Senate from 1966 until 1991. He currently serves on the Town of Weston Board, where he is working to maintain the rural integrity of his town in the face of growing development pressure.
David Cieslewicz of Madison is the Mayor of Madison. He is the former executive director of 1000 Friends of Wisconsin. He has served on the Dane County Regional Planning Commission and the Dane County Zoning and Natural Resources Committee and on the Governor’s Strategic Growth Task Force.
John Clancy is a shareholder and member of the environmental and energy law practice group in the Milwaukee office of Godfrey & Kahn and he is a leader of the team’s climate change, renewable energy and sustainable development practice. John provides environmental and energy-related services to a wide variety of entities, including industrial, commercial, tribal, municipal and trade association clients. John graduated with a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1986 and later received a Juris Doctor from the University of Virginia School of Law.
Sheila Cohen of Madison graduated from the University of Wisconsin in 1961 with a degree in Communicative Disorders. After a brief stay in California, where she earned her Masters Degree in education, she decided to return to Madison because of its unique ease of community living and accessibility to outdoor, cultural, and educational activities. In recent years, she has become aware and concerned about the growing traffic and urban sprawl which has begun to adversely affect the city. It is for that reason that she gladly accepted the invitation to serve on the Board of Directors of 1000 Friends last spring. Sheila taught English as a Second Language (ESL) in the Madison Metropolitan School District for 20 years. Upon retirement, she has devoted her time to freelance writing and recently had a book published by the Wisconsin State Historical Society which deals with Hmong resettlement in Wisconsin. She has just finished a children’s book on Gaylord Nelson to be published in 2010. She served on the Board of Directors of United Refugee Services until 2006.
Rob Cramer of Platteville serves as the Assistant Chancellor for Administrative Services at the University of Wisconsin – Platteville. Administrative Services provides financial, budget, human resources, police and facility services to the campus. From 2001 to August 2007 he served as the Secretary of the State of Wisconsin Building Commission and Administrator of the Division of State Facilities. Rob was appointed to this position in 2001 and reappointed in 2003. Prior to serving as the Secretary of the Building Commission, Mr. Cramer was appointed Administrator for the Division of State Agency Services in the Department of Administration. He has also worked as the public sector manager for a private sector consulting firm, project manager for the TEACH Wisconsin Initiative, and as a fiscal and policy analyst in the Wisconsin State Budget Office. Rob received Masters degrees in Economics and Public Policy from the University of Wisconsin–Madison.
Emily Earley of Madison has been a leader in promoting environmental protection and land conservation throughout Wisconsin for over 50 years. She served as a trustee of the Nature Conservancy, Wisconsin Chapter for 40 years and is a recipient of the Nature Conservancy’s Oak leaf Award. Until two years ago she also served as a trustee of Northland College and as a board member of Dane County Natural Heritage Foundation (now called the Natural Heritage Land Trust) Emily was editor of technical publications at the UW-Madison Institute for Environmental Studies until her retirement in 1986.
Franc Fennessy of Madison is Director of Land Management and Stakeholder Affairs for American Transmission Company which includes the local relations, real estate and environmental departments. ATC (headquartered in Pewaukee, Wisconsin) provides electric transmission service to utility customers in Wisconsin, upper Michigan, and small segments in Minnesota and Illinois. He joined ATC in 2003 after serving for fifteen years in Wisconsin state government. From 1987 to 2003, he held a wide range of senior policy and management positions at the Department of Administration and the Department of Natural Resources (DNR), including two years as DNR Deputy Secretary where he oversaw the agency’s environmental policy initiatives and major permitting and remediation cases. Franc holds a Master of Arts in Public Affairs degree from the Hubert Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs at the University of Minnesota (with a concentration in energy and environmental policy) and B.A. from St. John’s University in Collegeville, Minnesota.
Patrick Gallagher, Vice-President, co-founded Siegel-Gallagher and is head of the firm’s Investment Properties Group. Siegel-Gallagher, with offices in Milwaukee and Madison, has 15 commercial real estate brokers and property management, construction and maintenance oversight on over 3 million square feet of office, commercial and multi-family space. Patrick’s interests include alpine skiing, mountain biking, and kayaking.
Stan Gruszynski of Porterfield is director of the Global Environmental Management (GEM) Education Center at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point (UWSP). Prior to his appointment at UWSP, He was 71st Assembly District representative from 1984 to 1994. Among his legislative accomplishments were his authoring of the Wisconsin Environmental Education Law, Non-Point Source Pollution Law, Farms for the Future Act and the Wisconsin Child Care Initiative. Stan also was director of public affairs for the USDA Rural Development program in Wisconsin and has been a consultant to private sector business and not-for-profit organizations.
Steve Hiniker of Madison is Executive Director of 1000 Friends of Wisconsin and a founding board member of the organization.
Tom Lyon is the retired Chief Executive officer of Cooperative Resources International, (CRI) Shawano, Wisconsin. The nation's first agricultural holding cooperative, CRI specialized in cattle breeding, computerized farm records, and the marketing of livestock. His avocational activities included service on the Boards of American Farmland Trust, the Wisconsin Natural Resources Foundation, and the University of Wisconsin Board of Regents. Tom is a member of the National Cooperative Business Hall of Fame, and as Guest of Honor of the National Dairy Shrine. Tom and his wife Barbara reside in Cambridge, Wisconsin.
Kine Icks Torinus, President, grew up in Green Bay, now living in the Town of West Bend, is past President of the Ozaukee Washington Land Trust (OWLT). She earned an M.A. in Communication Disorders in 1981 from the University Wisconsin-Eau Claire and a B.A. with a major in Biology, from Denison University in 1960. She served on the City of West Bend 2020 Comprehensive Plan Technical Advisory Committee, is a Trustee of Northland College (an environmental liberal arts college) and served on the City of West Bend Urban Design Committee. Kine enjoys cross-country skiing, bike riding on Wisconsin roads, canoeing, climbing trees, reading, competition and helping Wisconsin be a better place in which to live, work and play.
Jean Wells, Treasurer, of Madison grew up on a dairy farm in south central Wisconsin. She graduated from Upper Iowa University with a Bachelor of Science degree in Accounting and Management. She has been a licensed CPA since December of 1995. She has over 15 years experience working in public and private accounting organizations in Dane and Jefferson Counties. Jean currently works for Lutheran Social Services of Wisconsin and Upper Michigan. She enjoys biking, weight lifting and other physical exercise. She has fun organizing groups of friends and co-workers to attend cultural and social events.
Dean A. Zuleger is the Village Administrator of Weston, Wisconsin, one of the state's leading recycling and stormwater management communities. Previously, he served as the Executive Director of the WI Potato & Vegetable Growers Association where he forged a partnership with the World Wildlife Fund to reduce the use of pesticides. He is a former appointee to the USEPA Pesticide Dialogue Committee and a Board member of the national Foundation for Integrated Pest Management. Dean enjoys reading, writing and coaching football and basketball.
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