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2 unusual facts about Stevens Point


George Corneal

He also coached football, track, and basketball at the University of Wisconsin–Stevens Point and Lakewood High School.

For three academic years from 1914 to 1917, Corneal was the athletic director and head basketball, track and football coach at the Stevens Point State Normal School, now known as the University of Wisconsin–Stevens Point.


David Wrone

-- Roger --> Wrone (May 15, 1933 in Clinton, Illinois) is a recently retired professor of history at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point who taught and published in the fields of American Indian history, Abraham Lincoln, and the assassination of John F. Kennedy.

Ellis, Wisconsin

Ellis is located in central Wisconsin approximately six miles northeast of Stevens Point, approximately four miles north of Custer, and approximately six miles southwest of Rosholt, where State Road 66 and Portage County Road J to the south meets with Ellis Road.

Jonathan Carver

This triangular tract in northwestern Wisconsin and eastern Minnesota would have been bounded by lines running from modern Minneapolis southeast to Pepin, then due east to near Stevens Point, and from there northwest roughly through Eau Claire to Minneapolis.

Joseph D. Beck

Born near Bloomingdale, Wisconsin, in Vernon County, Wisconsin, Beck graduated from Stevens Point Normal School and University of Wisconsin–Madison.

Mike Dombeck

Born in Stevens Point, Wisconsin and raised in Sawyer County, Dombeck worked as a fishing guide for 11 summers in the Hayward area.

NRG Media

With the exception of their stations in Omaha, Grand Island/Kearney, and Lincoln, Nebraska and Wausau-Stevens Point, Wisconsin, NRG owns properties in small or medium, unrated markets.

Rockwood Lodge

After Rockwood Lodge, the Packers moved their training camp to Grand Rapids, Minnesota from 1950 through 1953 and then Stevens Point, Wisconsin from 1954–57 before settling in at St. Norbert College in DePere, Wisconsin, where they train to this day.

UWSP Albertson Center for Learning Resources

University of Wisconsin - Stevens Point (UWSP) Albertson Center for Learning Resources (also known as the UWSP LRC) is a public academic library located on the UWSP campus in Stevens Point, Wisconsin.

Wisconsin Highway 66

Highway 66 then departs from Highways 10 and 51 and I-39 and continues northwest past the Stevens Point Municipal Airport, heading east at Jordan near the Jordan County Park of Portage County.

Wisconsin Reporter

The publication also provides local coverage in the cities of Beloit, Chippewa, La Crosse, Kenosha, Eau Claire, Wausau and Stevens Point.

WOZZ

WIZD became simply 99.9 WIZD heavily targeting the Plover and Stevens Point area in which the station is local to.


see also

Green Bay and Western Railroad

Stevens Point (Stevens Point and Northern) Opened January 1882 from Plover.

Michael Dombeck

After three years of teaching various sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point, Michael Dombeck joined the U.S. Forest Service as a fisheries biologist on the Hiawatha National Forest.

Northwoods battalion

UWEC started ROTC in the fall semester of 2009, but did not partner with the UW-Stevens Point until 2010.

WKQH

Licensed to Marathon, Wisconsin, USA, the station serves the Wausau-Stevens Point area.

World Trivia Night

(By tradition, the first answer is always Pierre Trudeau, as a tip of the hat to the long-running radio trivia content in Stevens Point, WI, which always begins with a question about Robert Redford.)

WOZZ

In the late 1990s-early 2000s, it began simulcasting with its sister station WIZD 99.9 FM under the name "The Oldies Station;" this was done to allow the entire Wausau-Stevens Point radio market to be linked with one oldies station.