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My Personal Life
Duane Bogenschneider
Lomira, Wisconsin
E-mail: drbogenX@aol.com (remove X before
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My
Early Years
- I was born on July 20, 1945 in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, the son of Raymond and Helen Burow Bogenschneider.
Both of whom are now deceased.
- I grew up on a dairy farm in Theresa, Wisconsin.
- I have one sister, Virginia. She is married to Roger Pribnow of
Brownsville, Wisconsin. The two retired from dairy farming. Roger works in electronics at Wells
Manufacturing in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin and does some farming on the side.
Their e-mail address rbribnow@dotnet.com.
- As a young boy, I faced having the career options of being a dairy farmer
or a clergyman. I knew I didn't want to be a dairy farmer, so I left home at
age 14 to attend Concordia College in Milwaukee, Wisconsin for high school and
college in a pre-ministerial program.
- I attended the ministerial program for six years at Concordia College
in Milwaukee, two years at Concordia Senior College, Ft. Wayne, Indiana, and
four years at Concordia Seminary, St. Louis, Missouri.
My
Young Adult Years
- I married Gayle Mueller from Frohna, Missouri in 1969. We were married for
25 years. She lives in St. Louis, Missouri and is married to Laurence Rosen.
- After graduating from the seminary, Gayle and I did volunteer work in
Ethiopia. I taught seventh and
eighth grades, was responsible for 15 literacy schools, worked in community
development, worked with the local Ethiopian Orthodox Church, and served as a
civilian chaplain at the U.S. Army Base in Asmara, Ethiopia. I had to return
home after 18 months because I contracted hepatitis, malaria and dysentery. My
time in Ethiopia was one of the most formative and enriching experiences in my
life.
- When I returned to the States, I became the pastor of Grace Lutheran
Church in Franklin, Virginia. As the church was a small mission congregation, it
could not afford to pay a full salary, so I worked at Franklin High School as
a library aide. I enjoyed working in the library and started taking library
science courses at Old Dominion University to become certified as a school
media coordinator.
- After three years in Franklin, Virginia, Gayle had a job opportunity in
Raleigh, North Carolina and I decided to pursue a career in library
science.
- I finished my master's work in the summer of 1978 (although I didn't
officially receive my degree until 1979), and took a job as Editor with
Microfilming Corporation of America, a subsidiary of
The New York Times in Sanford, NC. In
addition to microfilming newspapers and serials, the company brought together
historic research collections, microfilmed them, and developed bibliographic
access tools. I managed a department of catalogers that worked on developing
collections of monographs and serials.
- After five years at MCA, the New York Times sold all the assets of the
company to University Microfilms, and put over 200 people out of work. I was
recruited to work for Research Publications, Inc., of
Woodbridge, Connecticut as Manager of Product Development. Research
Publications was also a micropublisher not only of rare and historic
materials, but also of U.S. and International Patents. RP had offices in
Connecticut and Reading, England. After two years, I was promoted to Vice
President of Product Development; one year later I was promoted to Vice
President of Product Development and Editorial Operations. I had sixty-five
people reporting to me.
- After five years at RP, the President of the company died, and various
circumstances led me to conclude that the company had an uncertain future, I
decided to start my own company. This coincided with a promotional opportunity
for Gayle with Abbott Laboratories in the Chicago area. We decided to move to
the Chicago area and I set up the Bogenschneider Corporation, dba Signs Today
in Palatine, Illinois.
- I started Signs Today as a new company and built it up to $500,000 in
sales in five years. After the failure of my marriage and a job opportunity
with my alma mater, School of Library and
Information Sciences, North Carolina Central University, I decided to
fulfill a long-time goal of returning to North Carolina, the place "I love
calling home."
- I worked as Assistant to the Dean, Administration and Enrollment
Management, at the School of Library and Information Sciences, North Carolina
Central University, Durham, North Carolina from the fall of 1994 until 2000. I
was responsible for students in the School from admission through graduation.
- I worked as Head of the Documents Branch at the
State Library of North Carolina
in Raleigh, NC from 2000 until 2001. The Branch administered the North
Carolina state government documents program and was a depository for U.S.
government documents.
- I worked as Director of Operations,
OCLC Preservations Resources from 2001
to 2002. The company did preservation microfilming and digitization of library materials.
- I worked from 2002-3 as Associate Director for Collection Development,
Chesnutt Library,
Fayetteville State University,
Fayetteville, NC.
- I am working as Collection Management Librarian (Associate Professor),
Bronx Community College of the City of New York, Bronx, NY.
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