{"id":3676,"date":"2025-12-16T07:14:51","date_gmt":"2025-12-16T13:14:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/advance\/?post_type=class_notes&p=3676"},"modified":"2025-12-16T07:14:52","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T13:14:52","slug":"michael-j-lowrey","status":"publish","type":"class_notes","link":"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/advance\/class-note-updates\/michael-j-lowrey\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael J. Lowrey"},"content":{"rendered":"

On December 12, 2025, the 50th<\/sup> anniversary of my first state job, I will be retiring from the Wisconsin Department of Children and Families.\u00a0 Spread the word to anybody who still remembers Orange Mike.<\/p>\n

I am proud of my time at UWM and what I learned there, both at Cultures and Communities and elsewhere, and of my time as a member of UWM’s AFSCME Local 82. Although I have not been professionally employed or published as an historian, I have written or substantially edited over 500 Wikipedia articles on Wisconsin history and labor history, have served for many years as a volunteer admin on the English-language Wikipedia, and received a scholarship to attend the Wikimania conference in Nairobi this year.<\/p>\n

I am still happily married to UWM alumna and former employee C. Kay “Cicatrice” Hinchliffe, and still the proud poppa of UWM Art History student Kelly Lowrey.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":283,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","uwm_wg_additional_authors":[]},"class_list":["post-3676","class_notes","type-class_notes","status-publish","hentry"],"yoast_head":"\nUWM University Advancement<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/advance\/class-note-updates\/michael-j-lowrey\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Michael J. 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