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Article: Appleton, Wis.-Area Dental School's Persistence Embodies Car Czar's 'Way'.
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- August 3, 2003
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By Arlen Boardman, The Post-Crescent, Appleton, Wis. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Aug. 3--Building a new dental school at Mar...uette University was a crusade for Neenah-based auto dealer John Bergstrom.
Retired Kimberly-Clark Corp. chief executive Wayne Sanders helped Bergstrom pursue that dream. Sanders is chairman of Mar...uette's board of trustees and Bergstrom is vice chairman.
"We were at a point (in the late 1990s) where that dental school was obsolete," Sanders said. "There was no way it was going to be able to function in the future."
Bergstrom took the lead, ultimately convincing trustees, university leaders, the ...