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Wisconsin State Journal LOCAL Sunday, April 10, 2005 D3 SCOUTING FOR FOOD 3 professors atUWget Guggenheims Butch McCartney Wausau Daily Herald Alex Schmidt 8, of Pack 400 at Riverview School in Wausau, hangs a bag on a door Saturday as part of the city's annual Scouting for Food drive. Scouts will pick up food donations on Saturday. Glider pilot's efforts may have saved his passengers tury. He also will write a book summarizing his research. "What's original about it is that I am looking at the theories of personality in terms of literary genres," he said.

"I think there's something very basic about how human character is described and how that is reflected in novels and (comedic) theater." Kelley's award will further her research on the historical connections between botany and British romantic literature between 1780 and 1840. The book she will write will end, she said, with a "hilarious and wonderful discussion" about the names of orchids and the wordplay they inspire. Coming from a background in literature, Kelley said she had to learn about botany, or plant science, from the ground up to pursue this research topic. But she said it was well worth the trouble for the unique windows of understanding into the period that her study provided. "Botany played a terrific role in this period of British Romantic culture," she said.

"It's a tremendous era for book illustrations. You even get magazines that are hand-colored during this time. It's really rich, visually." The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation was established by U.S. Sen. Simon Guggenheim and his wife, Olga Hirsh Guggenheim, to honor a son who died in 1922 at the age of 17.

Since 1925, the foundation has given almost $240 million to more than 15,500 people. Past winners include Ansel Adams, Aaron Copeland, Langston Hughes, Henry Kissinger, Vladimir Nabokov, Linus Pauling, Philip Roth, Derek Walcott and Eudora Welty. Nelson was a Whitewater rafter, skateboarder, wake boarder, cliff jumper and sky diver. Tyler had been out to Hawaii on a short vacation when he became interested in flying and moved there around Christmas last year. "He said, 'Dad, I want to become a glider pilot' When Tyler takes on a task, he puts his mind to it." Nelson said he still has the voicemail message Tyler left the day he got his pilot's license.

"He was proud as punch," Nelson said. "He was so proud the day he got his first tip from somebody. It wouldn't have mattered if it was $3 or $3,000. It verified who he was." A memorial service for Tyler will be at 8 p.m. Friday at Gunderson East Funeral Home, 5203 Monona Drive.

Friends may call from 4 p.m. until the time of service. "This world lost a beautiful person," Nelson said. "He touched many lives. Honolulu Advertiser.

Just hours after Wednesday's crash, John Streich told his wife, Karen, that Nelson did everything he could to prevent the crash. Streich said the glider hit two consecutive down drafts and Nelson was unable to pull the glider out of the second one, according to the Honolulu Advertiser. The glider crashed and flipped over, pinning the three inside. After more than two hours, fire rescue crews were able to reach the wreckage and lift the Streichs to safety. Nelson was pronounced dead at the scene, the newspaper reported.

Nelson graduated from Monona Grove High School in 2000 and had attended classes at Madison Area Technical College. He traveled all over the United States in snowboarding competitions. "Life was his education and he certainly wasn't afraid to get out there and get an education that way," said Richard Nelson, Cottage Grove. "Some people call him a free spirit. He lived life to its fullest and he lived with no regrets." In addition to snowboarding, But the 22-year-old Monona native died in a crash in Hawaii.

By Gena Kittner Wisconsin State Journal Family members describe Monona native Tyler Nelson as an adventurous person whose smile would light up the room and as someone who would risk his life to save others. Nelson, 22, a glider pilot working in Hawaii, died Wednesday when the plane he was piloting crashed in the remote mountain area on Oahu's north shore. He was a licensed commercial pilot, employed by Soar Hawaii in Oahu, Hawaii. "If it wasn't for his efforts, the passengers in that plane would have perished," his father, Richard Nelson, said Saturday. "I know he would have put his life in front of theirs because that's the kind of kid he was." The passengers, John Streich and his daughter Ashley were treated for minor injuries, according to an article in the Digest FITCHBURG Committee forming on Ridgewood ideas The city of Fitchburg and developer Gary Gorman are forming a steering committee to gather ideas from residents at the Ridgewood Country Club Apartments to find out what they would want in the redeveloped complex.

"They would like input from the citizens," said Fitchburg Mayor Tom Clauder. Maintenance problems and several recent fires have plagued the Ridgewood apartments. In March, the Fitchburg City Council passed a resolution giving Gorman the authority to come up with a development plan for the troubled apartments. The resolution asks the city's Community and Economic Development Authority and the council to decide if the property is a blighted area and to work with Gorman on a redevelopment plan. People interested in joining the committee can call the Gorman at 257-7023 or Fitchburg city hall 270-4200 for more information.

DANE COUNTY Nominations sought for water awards The Dane County Lakes and Watershed Commission is seeking nominations for the Dane County Water Champions Award. The honor recognizes individuals, businesses and organizations that have positively affected the county's water resources. Nomination forms are available from the Lakes and Watershed Commission office at 210 Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd, Room 421 or call 266-4296. Nominations must be received by April 30.

The awards will be presented during Yahara Lakes Week on June 17. LAKE GENEVA Rove lauds effort of state Republicans White House adviser Karl Rove sought to rally Republicans on Saturday in a state that President Bush narrowly lost in November, telling party activists their efforts were still part of the national victory. "While we came up just a little, teensy, itsy-bitsy short in Wisconsin, this victory would not have been possible had it not been for your efforts," said Rove, a White House deputy chief of staff who is credited with mapping out Bush's campaign in 2000 and 2004. Sen. John Kerry won Wisconsin on Nov.

2 by about 11,000 votes, a margin of less than 1 percent Rove said Kerry was forced to play defense in Wisconsin, visiting the state eight times in the last week of the campaign. "And even then he won it by the skin of his chinny, chinny chin," he said. Rove headlined a $75-a-plate fundraiser for party activists at a posh resort in this southeastern Wisconsin town. He was scheduled to appear at another fundraiser in Wisconsin later Saturday evening. Rove's visit came as state Republicans gear up campaigns to try to unseat Gov.

Jim Doyle and Attorney General Peg Lautenschlager, both first-term Democrats running for re-election in 2006. MADISON Store's computers go on brief downer Check-out computers were down for over an hour Saturday at Woodman's Food Market's West Side location. It was a typical computer reboot, said Steve Affeldt, a front-end manager at Woodman's, 725 S. Gammon Road. The computers were down from around 3 to 4:20 p.m., he said.

"Some people left. It didn't seem too bad. People were pretty good." Affeldt said this was the first time this has happened to the computers in about 10 years. State Journal staff, wires Their fields are French, English and Jewish studies. By Gena Kittner and Karen Rivedal Wisconsin State Journal Three UW-Madison professors are among 186 scholars and artists in the United States and Canada to receive prestigious fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation.

UW-Madison's awardees are French professor Richard E. Goodkin, English professor Theresa M. Kelley and David Sorkin, a professor of Jewish studies and director of the university's Institute for Research in the Humanities. The Guggenheim Foundation in New York advances research in the natural sciences and creative arts. This year's fellows include writers, painters, sculptors, photographers, filmmakers, physical and biological scientists, choreographers and social scientists.

The recipients were selected from more than 3,000 applicants. The total awarded was $7.1 million, with individual fellowships averaging $35,000. Sorkin on Friday said he planned to use his fellowship to finish a book about religious aspects of the Enlightenment, from 1689 to 1789. Most people assume the Enlightenment was secular, Sorkin said. "We date modern culture to the Enlightenment in the 18th century," he said.

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