The Top 10 things you should know about Mary
Downs....
1.She is the youngest
of 3 children. There are 2000 pictures
of her sister, 1000 of her brother, and 2 of her. 2. While
Mary was the yearbook editor at Appleton East, she learned to forge the
principal's signature, just in case there was some type of yearbook-deadline-emergency. She’s not telling if she ever actually used
it.... 3.While Mary was an undergraduate
at UW-Stevens Point, she majored in Managerial Accounting and played
competitive trivia with The Flying Zupan Brothers. That was before the internet - that was real
trivia! 4. She earned two graduate
degrees at UW-Oshkosh, in Educational Leadership and Counseling. Clearly, she’s still trying to figure out if
I am right or left-brained. 5. Mary
spent many years at AAL/Thrivent.
Highlights of her time there included being involved in the creation of
the child learning center, going to UNICEF to receive an award for our program
to support nursing mothers, and being at a volunteer event in Minot North
Dakota where several people just walked right into the pool at the Holiday
Inn. Fortunately someone from the North
Dakota Water Rescue team was sitting next to her. 6.
The highlight of her time at ThedaCare included working on the Community Mental
Health Summit, forming the NEW Mental Health Connection, and playing a key role
in the creation of Catalpa Health. 7.
Mary recently joined FVTC as the leader of the Foundation and Community
Relations. She needed to feed her soul
and focus on collaborating to improve people’s lives. 8. Mary is an only parent with two sons. “Only” is another way to
say Widow –her husband died two years ago after a 6 year battle with
cancer. She has 2 sons, one studying
strategic communications at TCU, the other at Appleton North. She also has a dog and a cat. At first, she thought she was a dog
person. Now she thinks she is a cat
person. But not a crazy cat lady. That’s entirely different. 9.
Mary loves to travel, she loves to buy jewelry, and she loves to buy jewelry
while traveling. She thought that
traveling would help her cross things off my bucket list, but it just makes her
want to add new items to it. 10. Her Volunteer/Service activities
include: CHAPs Academy board member, Leadership Fox Cities NAMI, Appleton North
and Wave Swim club events, and now, ROTARY!!
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