News Releases
Wisconsin Public Radio's The Midday will be broadcasted live from the Viterbo University Fine Arts Center Recital Hall on March 31 from 11 am to 1 pm.
As part of WPR's centennial celebration, Viterbo music faculty will perform music from the year 1917 including works by Debussy, Pew and Brahms.
Midday airs on WPR's classical music and NPR News station. Locally, it's broadcast on frequency 88.9 FM.
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Former Viterbo President Rick Artman was honored with the Bill Medland Faithful Servant Award at a March 9 luncheon held by Catholic Charities. The award commemorates leadership, empathy, inspiration and compassion according an official Viterbo news release.
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The Leadership at Noon Lecture Series will feature Carl Rick of Kwik Trip on March 21 in the Reinhardt Center Boardroom.
As a Leadership Development Specialist in his family's business, Rick's duties include public relations and training store leaders. Rick additionally serves in the capacities of a company spokesman, board member and third generation owner.
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Rev. Patrick Desbois will present "Holocaust by Bullets" at 7 pm Thursday, March 23 in the Viterbo Fine Arts Center Auditorium. Fr. Desbois is a Holocaust historian and a faculty member at Georgetown University.
Fr. Desbois focuses on bringing lesser known travesties such as the extermination of many Jews by gunfire to light. Additionally, he is a published author (including The Holocaust by Bullets: A Priest’s Journey to Uncover the Truth Behind the Murder of 1.5 Million Jews).
Additionally, Fr. Desbois, is the founder and president of an international humanitarian organization that identifies and commemorates the sites where Roma and Jews were slaughtered by Nazi mobile killing units during WWII.
Fr. Desbois's presentation is part of the D.B. Reinhart Institute for Ethic's Lecture Series annual
Teaching the Holocaust Workshop presented to Middle and High School teachers. Fr. Desbois presentation is free and open to the public.
In addition, there is a public photo display chronicling Fr. Desbois work and the atrocities he writes and presents about in the Fine Arts Center atrium.