As a recent addition to Viterbo’s full-time faculty, John Neumann is no stranger to Viterbo’s beautiful campus. Coming from Fond du Lac, John first called Viterbo home as a freshman student in 2012. The warm welcome, strong friendships, and excellent internship experiences offered kept John engaged during his time as an undergrad student through the master’s program.

Viterbo nursing major Ambree Schlosser discovered one of her passions very early in life. “I started with basketball in third grade and I’ve been playing year-round ever since,” said Schlosser, an Eau Galle native who is in the midst of her senior season as a standout player on the women’s basketball team. “I wanted to play in college and Viterbo provided me with a great opportunity.”

There was never any doubt for Jorge L. Espat ’84 when he was growing up in Belize that he would go to college. Even in a family with 10 children (all but one boys), his parents viewed investing in education as far preferable to accumulating wealth.

Viterbo Music Professor Mary Ellen Haupert was visiting her daughter in Indianapolis when she spotted Ben Bernthal sitting behind an old-fashioned typewriter and a sign that read “give words, get poems.”

Haupert was intrigued and decided to offer the poet some seemingly random words, and wait for the resulting verse. Bernthal got to work, and soon returned with a fully-formed poem.

Gavin Mason, a senior vocal performance major at Viterbo University, has taken advantage of the challenges posed by the pandemic to broaden his talents.