Another chapter to her story
Former newspaper editor enjoying new role with MATC Foundation
Angela Danielski, Clarion Staff Writer
Issue date: 3/11/09 Section: News
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Ellen M. Foley is the former editor of the Wisconsin State Journal and current Director of Development in the Alumni Foundation Office at MATC. As the director, she manages the office and is in charge of marketing and public relations efforts for the foundation, which deals with alumni relations, fundraising and awarding various scholarships.
According to an announcement made by MATC, "she has been hired to increase giving to the college through marketing, communication, alumni relations and systems improvements." Foley commented on how honored she is to be here at MATC and says she could not ask for a better place to work.
Foley's life reads like the chapters of a book. The first chapter begins in Wauwatosa, Wis. where she was the eldest of seven children and grew up "very sheltered" and had an "enchanted" childhood in the suburbs of Milwaukee she describes. Coming from a large family helped install the sense of leadership that has shaped her career.
"Some people say leaders aren't born, but I actually was," says Foley. She attended the University of Wisconsin-Madison and majored in political science and in addition received a master's degree in journalism and mass communication. After receiving her master's degree she started on her long career in writing.
Chapter two begins as the new graduate took a job with a small newspaper in Menominee, Mich., which she says "is the way you did it back then." This chapter was extremely fast paced in which she quickly moved up in the journalistic world. After a brief stint with the Herald-Leader, she moved to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, the Detroit News, and finally to the Minneapolis Star. She was cruising along on her path to a perfect life when in 1988 she suffered a great tragedy when her sister Mary was tragically murdered. The next five years were spent campaigning for stricter sentences for sexual offenders.
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