Lewis was also interested in higher education, including serving as a Trustee of Hamline University and the State Normal School (now Winona State University), Minnesota's academy for training schoolteachers.
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Later, while attending Winona State University in Winona, Minnesota, he played quarterback for three years and played basketball for two years before graduating in 1957 with a degree in mathematics.
In 1861, he moved to Winona, Minnesota to help set up the first normal school in Minnesota now Winona State University.
He graduated in 1999 from Winona State University where he performed on stage in productions such as Shakespeare's Macbeth, playing the titular character opposite of Anthony Rydberg, Samantha Sweeney, and The Reverend Adam Posegate.
On July 18, 2005 Ramaley began her service as the 14th president of Winona State University in Winona, Minnesota.