Matt Levatich - Harley-Davidson
05/28/13 12:00 PM

Memorial Hall

Matt Levatich has been on two wheels of some kind for most of his life. The dirt bikes of his youth have become Harley-Davidson motorcycles, the coolest bikes on any road, but especially in their hometown of Milwaukee. The President and Chief Operating Officer of Harley-Davidson Motor Company, Matt, a graduate of Northwestern’s Kellogg School of Management,  will share information on all things Harley-Davidson, including the company’s 110th anniversary celebration in Milwaukee this August. This is a joint program with the Kellogg Alumni Club of Wisconsin.

Jerry Apps - Life with Polio
06/04/13 12:00 PM

Memorial Hall

Celebrated rural historian and author Jerry Apps will share stories from his newest and most personal book “Limping through Life: A Farm Boy’s Polio Memoir.” Jerry was hard-working 12-year-old farm kid when he contracted polio on winter. Though the disease crippled part of his body, Apps will share how polio strengthened him as well, fortifying his attitudes toward hard work and rural living, and setting him on the path to becoming a writer. Apps will also share some history of the polio epidemic in Wisconsin, which hit the Fox River Valley where Jerry lived particularly hard after World War II.