Joan Krueger Wadlow

(1932- ) lived at Norfolk and Lincoln. Educator, administrator, was first woman chancellor in the University of Alaska System of Higher Education while at University of Alaska-Fairbanks from 1991 to 1999, where she completed the first-ever private fundraising campaign, increased the number of student scholarships available, oversaw completion of several critically-needed facilities, and furthered the cause of higher education for the state's citizens; previously served in academic administration positions at the Universities of Nebraska, Wyoming, and Oklahoma. Consult Lincoln Star, November 12, 1967, p. D-11 and November 26, 1978, p. E-4 and UNL Nebraska Alumnus, Fall 2002, pp. 26-27 and Who's Who in America, Vol 2 (2003) 5476.

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