SNC issues alumni awards News-Chronicle St. Norbert College's Office of Alumni and Parent Relations has named itrs 2004 Alumni Award Winners. Among them are four recipients from the area: Harry Maier, Fred and Teresa Schmidt, Joan Schaupp, and Fr. James Baraniak, O.Praem. Harry R. Maier, Green Bay, received the Distinguished Service Award. Maier, class of 1951, worked for the Green Bay Press-Gazette for 37 years. After retiring from the Press-Gazette, Maier worked part-time at St. Norbert College as a consultant to the president in community relations and public affairs. This included making a number of presentations about St. Norbert College's history to local service organizations. He also led the United Way Campaign on campus for 10 years, served on the Gender Equity committee, the Miller Lecture Series committee, the De Pere and St. Norbert College Fall Fest committee and served on the Administrative Association. He is also a past member of the Founder's Day committee and chaired the College's successful Centennial Celebration. Fred and Teresa Schmidt, De Pere, received the Alma Mater Award. Mrs. Schmidt was a music major at St. Norbert College, class of 1975. She sang with the St. Norbert College Collegiate Chorale (now the Dudley Birder Chorale of St. Norbert College) and the St. Norbert College Green Bay Chamber Choir. Highlights of Mrs. Schmidt's community activities include serving as board member of the St. Norbert College Green Bay Chamber Choir; St. Norbert College's Centennial Committee; Service League of Green Bay; song leader at two area churches; and choral director for three Next Door Theatre musicals. Mr. Schmidt graduated from St. Norbert College in 1975, majoring in accounting, and earned his law degree from Marquette University in 1979. He is the past president of the Brown County Bar Association. He has served on the Wisconsin Bar Corporate and Business Law Committee and has served as a member of the board of directors of the Business Law Section. Mr. Schmidt is known in the community through his broad range of services including the boards of directors of the Greater Green Bay Community Foundation; the Bellin Foundation; the Notre Dame de la Baie Academy Foundation; the Weidner Center for the Performing Arts, including four years as president; the Green Bay Symphony Orchestra, serving as president from 1986-1993; Children's Hospital of Wisconsin-Green Bay Regional Board; National Railroad Museum and St. Norbert College's Board of Trustees, since 2000. Joan Schaupp, De Pere, received the Distinguished Service to the College Award. Schaupp, active in her family business, was an editor at the Green Bay Press-Gazette and a feature writer for the Green Bay Diocesan newspaper, The Compass. She is the founder and president of The Manna Institute, an organization that works to benefit women's issues. She is a member of the National Federation of Press Women, National Press Club, The American Academy of Religion/Society of Biblical Literature and the College Theology Society. In the community, Schaupp is formation director for St. Anne's Fraternity of the Secular Franciscan Order; serves on the YWCA's Investment Advisory Committee; serves as a master landscape designer consultant to the Wisconsin/National Federation of Garden's Club; and is a member of the Joan P. Schaupp Women's Center at St. Norbert College. Fr. Baraniak graduated from St. Norbert College in 1988 and attended the University of Notre Dame and Catholic Theological Union of Chicago where he received masters' degrees in Divinity and Liturgy. Fr. Baraniak began as a frater, teaching at Chicago's Willibrord Catholic High School and later at Abbot Pennings High School. He has served as associate pastor of Old St. Joseph Church, associate director of St. Norbert College's Campus Ministry, associate pastor of Our Lady of Lourdes and as St. Norbert Abbey Canonry vocation coordinator. Fr. Baraniak serves as a partner for the Joseph Cardinal Bernardin Center's Peace Builders Initiative which he helped develop, and as the Norbertine liaison for Notre Dame Academy, St. Norbert Abbey and Catholic Theological Union of Chicago. He assists in sacramental ministry at the Green Bay Correctional Institution and as chaplain to the Green Bay Packers. Effective July 25, Fr. Baraniak will serve as pastor of Old St. Joseph Church at St. Norbert College and St. Norbert College Campus Ministry.