Morgridge Book

Dear John and Tashia,

It must be the spirit of the Morgridge Match that led someone to ask me to write a letter that would match Becky’s letter.

I consider myself fortunate to have accumulated so many John and Tashia stories. I’ve known you for less than a decade, and in that time it seems I have accumulated a lifetime of stories. Some of them are stories you’ve shared with me. I recall one about the one-credit geology class on duck hunting along the Mississippi, and that of an ice boat on Lake Mendota encountering open water. Some of them involve friendships. The story of sorority sisters gathering each year to laugh and to cry with each other as life yields its portion of both joy and sadness. Some of them involve the geography of Wisconsin; your high school classmates amazed to see how much of the state was covered with trees as you treated them to a flight following a class reunion; going with you to Green Bay and Oshkosh in what was a small sample of the many times you’ve traveled to the schools of the UW System to bring Fund for Wisconsin Scholars recipients your one-word message, “Graduate”; hearing that you had gone to Washington Island, accessible only by boat, to see what schools were doing through your school technology initiative. All of these memories demonstrate your deep and abiding passion for Wisconsin and investing in its future. May it be ever better through what you have done for the people of this state!

Sincerely,

Hanns Kuttner