Glen Copper:
CLASS OF 1968
Central High SchoolClass of 1968
La crosse, WI
Milwaukee High School of the ArtsClass of 2002
Milwaukee, WI
Gale-Ettrick-Trempealeau High SchoolClass of 1968
Galesville, WI
Lincoln High SchoolClass of 1968
Park falls, WI
Viroqua High SchoolClass of 1968
Viroqua, WI
Glen's Story
Life
I live in Milwaukee with my wife, Karen, and son, KC (born in 1985). We've been married since 1970! We both graduated from UW-L. We semi-adopted Abbey from South Africa when he was 17. He lived with us until his third year of college at UW-Parkside where he graduated in '91. He is now Assistant to the South African Consul General at the consulate in Los Angeles. KC is now one of their first graduates in 3-D Computer Animation from MATC.
I just retired from teaching Creative Writing and Journalism at Milwaukee High School of the Arts. We've hosted more than 15 exchange students/teachers from all over the globe and have
visited many of them, too.
Karen just retired after 28 years as a promotional writer with Milwaukee Public Television. KC dances with Dnipro, a professional Ukrainian dance company which travels all over the country. KC also performs regularly with the Modjeska Musical Theatre Company in Milwaukee. I have an M.A. in Liberal Arts from St. John's College in Annapolis, MD. Up until 3years ago, Karen and I danced with the Czech-Moravian performing ensemble, Moja Vlast, when I tore the cartilege in my knee. Hobbies include photography, folk dancing, scuba, gardening, ceramics, and writing screenplays and a novel.
In my spare time you can find me volunteering in one of the tanks at Discovery World-Pier Wisconsin on the Lake front in downtown Milwaukee. I'm the one with the scouring pad and a wet suit cleanng the inside of the glass.
School
Kindergarten at Longfellow in Lacrosse...Expand for more
, St. Thomas More 1-3, St. John's 3-4, Jefferson 5th, Coon Valley 6th, LaCrosse Hamilton 6th, Galesville Elementary 7-8. I went to five different high schoools. Gale-Ettrick, Park Falls-Lincoln, Columbia Heights,Mn., LaCrosse-Central and Viroqua. I've attended UW-LaCrosse, UW-Milwaukee, UW-Parkside, St. John's College-Annapolis, Ball State University, Columbia University NYC, Milwaukee Institute Of Art and Design, Marquette University, and Seattle University of the Pacific.
College
see school biography
Workplace
I was a dishwasher then chef at various places working for my dad. At the LaCrosse Public library, while in high school, I shelved books and read shelves and library stuff. I was a chef at the Club 14, Ports of Call, and The Cerise Club while attending UW-LaCrosse. I was a newswriter and wire editor at WKBH/WKBT, Photographer at Ellickson's Studio in LaCrosse and for Photo Services of UW-L, director and Technician at UW-L instructional television, Lighting director, Carpenter and scene painter with UW-L theater Dept. and a Teaching Assistant in the UW-L Theater Dept.All of the above while an undergrad at UW-L.
After graduation I spent 17 years managing theaters for the Marcus Corporation in Milwaukee and Racine. Then I escaped from business and have been teaching high school since then, for 15 years at the Milwaukee High School of the Arts. Then in 2006, along with several colleagues we founded a new High School in Milwaukee and named it "D.I.A.L" The Downtown Institute of Arts and Letters.
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