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Rear Admiral Steven E. Day was born August 9, 1949 in
Albion New York. Rear Admiral Day graduated from Norway-Vulcan
High School Norway, Michigan in 1967. His father worked for the
Veterans Administration so his family moved from Holley New York
in 1961 to Bath New York and then to Norway Michigan in 1966.
His family was comprised of five sisters and three brothers. He
entered the U.S. Coast Guard on July, 17, 1967. After recruit
training, he attended Damage Controlman School at Governors
Island NY. He next tour was at the Training and Supply Center
Alameda, California as well a tour on the Coast Guard Cutter
Tanager home ported at Alameda, California. He was discharged as
a Damage Controlman Second Class on July 16, 1971.
Upon discharge from the Coast Guard, he entered Gogebic
Community College, and received an Associate of Arts degree in
1973. He was a member of Samson Basketball team under Coach Gene
Farrell for the 71- 72 and 72 - 73 seasons. Several of his
teammates were Veterans, so Coach Farrell dubbed the 71- 72 team
"The Veteran Team." He then enrolled at Northern Michigan
University where he obtained a Bachelor of Science Degree with
an Industrial Arts Education emphasis Magna Cum Laude in 1975.
He obtained a Masters in Professional Development and Education
from the University of Wisconsin Stevens Point Summa Cum Laude
in 1983.
In 1973 he began his active Coast Guard Reserve career as a
Damage Control man Second Class at Coast Guard Station
Marquette, Michigan. He was assigned to Reserve Unit Duluth
Minnesota till 1975 then assigned to Reserve Unit Green Bay
Wisconsin, where he was promoted to Damage Control man First
Class in 1977.
Upon graduation from Northern Michigan University in 1975, he
married Sharon Quiett (GCC 1972) in July 1975. They moved to
Port Edwards, Wisconsin where he worked for the Port Edwards
School District as the 7 - 12 Industrial Arts Teacher from
September 1975 to January 1987. During his tenure he coached
basketball and baseball at the Freshman, Junior Varsity and
Varsity levels. Also, his students excelled in the annual
Industrial Arts competition held at UW- Platteville, WI, taking
the First Team Trophy from 1979 -1985 in the Small School
Category.
From January 1987 to June 2008, he was employed by Great
Northern Nekoosa Paper Company, then Georgia Pacific, then
Domtar Paper Company due to mergers and acquisitions. During
those years his assignments were Safety Supervisor Nekoosa,
Wisconsin Mill, Training and Development Specialist Port
Edwards, Wisconsin Mill, and his last eight years of employment
was Manager of Labor Relations and Training for Domtar Wisconsin
Operations. In addition to this job, he has been an Adjunct
Instructor at MidState Technical College Wisconsin Rapids,
Wisconsin from 1987 to present. He has taught Supervisory Skills
on various topics with Leadership being the main course of
instruction. He served on the Port Edwards School Board from
1989 - 2002 and was President for 12 years. He has held
certifications as a Certified Materials Manager, Certified
Hazard Control Manager, Certified Environmental Trainer and
Certified Trainer. He has conducted training and consulting
workshops with special emphasis on Safety, Leadership, and Work
Redesign. His clients have been the Wisconsin Chamber of
Commerce, Urban Cranberry Company, local businesses and most
recently New Page Wisconsin Rapids, WI
Rear Admiral Steven E. Day assumed his duties as Deputy
Commander for Mobilization and Reserve Affairs, Coast Guard
Atlantic Area in June 2008. The Area of Operations for this
command ranges from the Rocky Mountains to the Arabian Gulf. He
is responsible for ensuring over 4,400 Atlantic Area Reservist
remain trained and ready to mobilize to support any of the three
Coast Guard Reserve Missions.
Rear Admiral Day received his commission in 1979 at the rank of
Ensign. Assignments as an officer have included; Reserve Green
Bay, Commanding Officer of Reserve Unit Hancock MI, completed
two tours to Jordan in 1985 and 1987, Operations Officer of PSU
303 Milwaukee WI, where he deployed to the Port of Damman Saudi
Arabia in support of Operations Desert Shield/Desert Storm from
September 1990 to April 1991. Upon release from active duty in
1991, Rear Admiral Day's assignments included; Commanding
Officer Reserve Unit Green Bay, FEMA Liaison Officer Milwaukee,
Commanding Officer PSU 303 Milwaukee, USTRANSCOM. Commanding
Officer Port Security Unit 309 where his unit conducted
deployments to Pohang, Korea, Dukaylah, Egypt, OPSAIL 2000, New
York City and Manama, Bahrain. Beginning in 2001, Rear Admiral
Day was then assigned to USTRANSCOM, with a follow on tour as
the Commanding Officer, Coast Guard Element, Joint Forces
Command Norfolk and Commanding Officer, Joint Reserve Unit,
Norfolk, VA.
In March of 2003, Rear Admiral Day was again recalled to active
duty in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom, assigned to the
Pentagon, National Military Command Center and Coast Guard
Headquarters, Defense Operations. Upon release from active duty,
he was assigned as the Senior Reserve Officer, Deputy Chief of
Staff CGD5 Portsmouth, Virginia and then PACAREA as the Reserve
Chief of Staff/Senior Reserve Officer Alameda, California.
On June 9, 2008, Rear Admiral Day assumed his current assignment
as the Deputy Commander for Mobilization and Reserve Affairs at
LANT AREA. In January 2010, he was recalled to active duty for
Operation Unified Response Haiti earthquake for 31 days. His
assignment for that recall was Deputy Director for Atlantic Area
Operations. He was recalled a second time that year for
Operation Deepwater Horizon in Robert and New Orleans, Louisiana
for 60 days. His assignment for that recall was Deputy to the
Federal On Scene Commander and Coordinator of Hurricane Response
for Federal, State and Local agencies of the States of
Louisiana, Mississippi and Florida. He was promoted to Rear
Admiral Upper Half on July l, 2010.
Rear Admiral Day's personal awards include a Defense Meritorious
Service Medal, three Meritorious Service Medals, three Joint
Defense Commendation Medals, two Coast Guard Commendation
Medals, Navy Commendation Medal, Coast Guard Achievement Medal
and a Joint Defense Achievement Medal and numerous other
personal and unit decorations.
His family collectively has a combined military service of close
to 150 years. His father COl Charles E. Day U.S. Army Reserve
Military Police WWII and Korea serving 30 years, his sister
Suzanne Day Gedvick U.S. Air Force and Michigan National Guard
serving eight years, brothers Michael F. Day U.S. Coast Guard
and Coast Guard Reserve serving 42 years and Charles F.S. Day
U.S. Coast Guard and Coast Guard Reserve serving 22 years. Rear
Admiral Day will be retired in June 2012 having served 45 years.
Rear Admiral Day and Shari have been married for 35 years and
have two children Meghan and Brian. Meghan is married to 1st LT
Sean Leahy Third Battalion Sixth Marines Camp Lejeune, North
Carolina and they have a son Ryan. Brian is employed by Cellu
Tissue Holdings Neenah, Wisconsin and married to the former
Sarah Glaser and they have a daughter Julia Rose. |
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Jean Ann "Jeannie" Lund Milakovich, daughter of the late
Alfred and Irene Lund, was born in Ironwood, Michigan, in 1950.
As children, she and her siblings fed their curious minds by
exploring the woods around their home in Ramsay, Michigan, by
spending time with and learning from grandparents, and by
reading. Summer or winter included a weekly trip to the library.
The three girls-all future teachers-practiced teaching-- each
other first and later their little brother, who eventually was
also a teacher.
Graduating from A.D. Johnston High School in 1968, Jeannie
attended Gogebic Community College until 1970; she and her
classmates attended the new Mt. Zion campus for one semester
before graduation. For one and a half semesters, Jeannie taught
English in an Ironwood Community School's class designed for
foreign-born students who weren't yet ready for ninth¬ grade
English. She also served as President of the Future Teachers of
America organization. Jeannie continued to tutor when she
transferred to Northern Michigan University from which she
graduated Suma cum Laude in 1972 with a Bachelor's Degree in
Secondary Education, English, and History.
Jeannie began her educational career in 1972 at Champion High
School, part of the newly-consolidated NICE 1 District in
Ishpeming Township. In 1973, she married her high school
sweetheart Jim Milakovich. They have three children and four
grandchildren: Jennifer (Ella and Chase), Jamie (Ethan and
Connor), and James.
During her ten years with NICE, Jeannie taught ninth through
twelfth grade English, creative writing, journalism, modern
literature, and developmental reading and writing. She served
for eight years on the school's Right to Read Committee and two
years on the State of Michigan's reading committee. She
co-chaired two North Central Accreditation teams and, with two
colleagues, developed and taught a series of nine developmental
English classes in reading, writing, and literature for
underprepared students. In addition, she served as advisor for
the junior class, the library, the yearbook, and the drama club
and coached Forensics. She also took masters classes at Northern
Michigan University. She continued to take Master's classes at
UWS and the University of Minnesota after returning to Ironwood.
Her focus was reading and writing processes.
In 1982, Jeannie and Jim returned to Ironwood with their young
family, and one year later, Jeannie began work as an adjunct
English instructor at Gogebic. After two semesters, Jeannie
approached Dean of Students Janet Blanchard about underprepared
students in her Freshman Composition classes. With Janet's
permission, she began developing English classes for
underprepared students at Gogebic. Work a couple years later
with a Title III grant allowed her to expand that fledgling
program to four developmental English classes, and she
Simultaneously taught two a semester until the program
established itself. Shortly thereafter, she approached Financial
Aid Director Steve Wesselhoft about using work- study money to
pay tutors, and the tutorial program was born. With tutors and
developmental classes in place, she re-instituted placement
testing at Gogebic, and her continuing efforts with a Title III
Grant facilitated those elements. Jeannie continued to work on
this grant which funded not only more developmental classes but
also equipment.
In 1988, as part of another Title III Grant, Jeannie researched
a student learning center and visited twenty-four community
colleges with well¬established programs. The Student Learning
Center, ACES, opened one year later, and Jeannie served as its
Director for almost two years before returning to the classroom.
When ACES opened, Jeannie had no funds for furniture, so
colleagues teased that they had to bolt down anything useful for
the center, or it would disappear during the night. While
serving as the Director of ACES, Jeannie initiated Phi Theta
Kappa, an honor society for students in two-year colleges, and
an orientation course for freshmen. As a result of her work with
programs for developmental and honors students, Jeannie received
an Excellence Award from the Michigan-Ohio Community, Junior,
and Technical College Education Consortium, and was recognized
by Who's Who in America. In 1991, the University of Texas,
through its National Institute for Staff and Organization
Development (NISOD), awarded Jeannie an Excellence in Education
Award for teaching and leadership in higher education. She was
also involved in the community serving as Treasurer for the
Newport PTO, as a Brownie Scout co-leader, and later, as a
Brownie Scout and Girl Scout leader.
Jeannie's return to the classroom didn't end her work for
special populations or for excellence in education. She, along
with Ken Bowman and Brian Fors, initiated online teaching at
Gogebic, though none of them had school computers at the time.
As a full-time faculty member, she taught two levels of freshman
composition, British literature, journalism, women in
literature, two levels of technical writing, and introduction to
ed~cation, a survey course for education majors. In addition,
she served as the Language and Fine Arts Division chairperson
for seventeen years, as The Chieftain advisor for ten years, as
the Phi Theta Kappa advisor for three years, and as a member of
the Curriculum Committee for twenty years.
Jeannie also served on various other committees during her
tenure at Gogebic including two long-range planning committees
and an honors education committee. In 2000, she co-chaired,
researched, and wrote the Criterion Three section of the North
Central Accreditation report. Between 2002 and 2007, she served
as the Chairperson of the Student Learning Team of AQlp3 which
focuses on excellence in education and accountability for
student learning. She researched existing policies and
practices, and with her cross-curricular team, revised and
created new ones. Jeannie wrote the student learning and
accountability segment of the college's accreditation report.
This report was used by the Higher Learning Commission in
Washington as a sample for other schools.
Jeannie retired from Gogebic in 2007, but she has remained
active. She relishes the time she has with her grandchildren and
enjoys sewing for them, especially Halloween costumes. In the
last couple of years, she has copy-edited two books, one of
which was recently published by Tate Publishing Company. She has
done contract work as a copy editor and technical writer for a
Nevada-based company, and she has returned to community service
as a member of the Grand View Hospital Board and GVHS Auxiliary.
Jeannie likes to do all kinds of needlework and to write and
read. She has published poems in Michigan Authors, Vol. 4; The
Colorado Poetry Review; North American Poetry; the International
Library of Poetry; Best Poets of 2003; a Noble House collection
of poetry; and most recently, a poem for a book From Shifting
Sand to Solid Rock.
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Dennis "Deke" Routheaux - Dennis "Deke" Routheaux's
basketball career began at Ewen-Trout Creek High School, where
he was a three-year starter for the Panthers under the direction
of Rudy Perhalla. These three years were also Coach Perhalla's
first years of coaching, during which the Panthers were
undefeated at home, lost only four regular season games, and had
a second place finish in the state tournament. Deke graduated
from Ewen-Trout Creek High School in 1969.
Following high school, Deke attended Gogebic Community College
where he played basketball for two seasons for Gene Farrell.
After graduating from GCC, Deke transferred to the University of
Wisconsin at Parkside where he was named basketball co-captain
for both of his years for Coach Steve Stevens. After graduating
from Parkside in 1974 with a major in sociology and a minor in
coaching, Deke accepted a position at GCC where he was the head
women's basketball coach, men's assistant basketball coach,
track coach, cross country coach, intramural director, and
health/physical education instructor. Subsequently, in 1978,
Deke completed his master's degree in physical education at
Northern Michigan University.
In 1982, upon the retirement of close friend and mentor Gene
Farrell, Deke became the head men's basketball coach and
athletic director at GCC. Under his guidance, GCC won four
region 13 titles and finished sixth in the nation at the NJCAA
division II national tournament in 2005. Deke also started the
first athletic scholarship fundraiser at GCC, in 1975, with the
"Last Chance Basketball Tournament," which was followed by
numerous other successful fundraisers.
Since retiring from Gogebic Community College in 2006, Deke has
been active in officiating basketball, coaching junior high
basketball, and teaching part-time at GCC. Deke and his son,
Tim, also started a small business, "Lockwood South Hardwood
Flooring," which specializes in custom gym floors. Deke recently
served as a host for the US junior national baseball team at the
World Games in Thunder Bay, Ontario during this past July and
August. In his leisure, he travels throughout the county with
his wife, Debby, and their two large labs, Dakota and Piper.
Deke and Debby also spend considerable time keeping track of
their four children: Jenny, an attorney in Las Vegas; Ryan, a
corporate pilot out of Bangkok, Thailand; Tim, an elementary
school teacher and the head men's basketball coach at Western
Tech Community College in La Crosse, Wisconsin; and Janey, a
second-year pharmacy student at the University of Iowa.
Over his teaching career, Deke certified hundreds of students
through the Red Cross in Emergency Response, Basic first Aid,
CPR and Automated External defibrillation. In 1988, he developed
Health Promotion courses to enhance student awareness of a
healthier lifestyle. These transferable courses allowed GCC
students to take these courses while enrolled at GCC at a much
more affordable cost before transferring to a college or
university.
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