Andre Bellamy

Off the Court

Milwaukee alumni, as Andre Bellamy tells it on the shows. Each story was checked against its source.

• Golda Meirprime minister of Israel

  Golda Meir trained to be a teacher right here in 1916, back when this was Milwaukee State Normal School. She taught in Milwaukee, and about fifty years later she was prime minister of Israel. Teachers. Never count them out.

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• Raquel RutledgePulitzer Prize-winning journalist

  Raquel Rutledge graduated from UW-Milwaukee and went on to win the Pulitzer Prize for Local Reporting in 2010. Asking hard questions is a Milwaukee tradition. She just did it better than the rest of us.

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• Trixie Matteldrag queen and singer-songwriter

  Trixie Mattel earned a fine arts degree in musical theatre here. Drag queen, singer-songwriter, comedian, television personality. That's four jobs off one diploma. Panthers stay busy.

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• Phil Katzprogrammer who wrote PKZIP

  Phil Katz came out of the computer science engineering program here and wrote a program called PKZIP. Every time you zip a file, tip your cap to Milwaukee.

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• Steven Burdlongtime Safeway CEO

  Steven Burd, master's in economics, 1973, ran Safeway for about twenty years. One year he took home nearly eleven million dollars. He also led the grocery chain into a partnership with Theranos. I'll just let that one sit.

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