Individual Details

BAPTISM: Baptism records; 1976; St. Patrick's Catholic Church, Hudson WI;


BIRTH: Birth Certificate; 1976; Dept of Vital Statistics, Madison WI; ; Copy
in possession of Nancy Hawkinson.

NOPRINT: PRESIDENTIAL PHYSICAL FITNESS AWARD
Presented to Robyn Hawkinson in recognition of outstanding physical achievement
and exceptional dedication to the ideal of a sound mind in a strong body. My
congratualtions to you on this accomplishment. Ronald Reagan, President of the
United States.

Robyn was baptized at St. Patrick's Catholic Church, Hudson WI; godparents were
a great aunt, Theresa Dierks, and an uncle, Robert Gartmann. Robyn graduated
from Hudson High School in 1994 and attends the University of Minnesota-Duluth
where she is an education major.

She belonged to the cross country and track teams in high school and set two
high school records in 1993: girls 800 meter and girls 4x8. She has continued
running and been a member of UMD cross country and track teams in college. She
traveled to Germany and Switzerland during the summer of 1994.

NOPRINT:
1988
Particpated in trip with Girl Scout Troop 63. Stops included:
Wisconsin Dells (Noah's Arc, Robot World, Water Show)
Chicago (Hardrock Cafe, Sears Tower, Museum of Science & Industry)
Pittsburgh (Monogahala Incline)
Old Bedford Village
Washington, D.C. (Washington Monument, Bureau of Engraving and Printing,
Lincoln Memorial, Voice of America, Jefferson Memorial, Arlington
Cemetery and changing of guard, White House, Capitol, Ford Theatre,
House where Lincoln died, Air & Space Museum, Smithsonian--The Castle,
Washington Zoo)
Ocean City (beach)
Lakawanna Coal Mine
Corning Glass Company
Avon Gennessee Museum Niagara Falls
Ferry ride Lake Michigan

NOPRINT:
The TREFOIL, Girl Scout Council of St.Croix Valley, Vol 42 No 1, Winter 1991
PADDLES, PACKS and PERIWINKLES:
My 1990 Wider Opportunity to New Hampshire
Hi, I am Robyn Hawkinson and I went on a Wider Op last summer. I started
out by flying to Boston where I met the Lamb family, who I stayed with for five
days. They were really nice and took me places around their hometown. Another
girl, Meagan McLaughlin from Warner, New Hampshire also stayed with us.
On Sunday, our host family drove us up to the White Mountain School were we
were shown our dorm rooms. Monday, we went to Swan Lake to sample the Wider
Opportuntiy group would be doing. The rest of the week was filled with
shopping and other fun stuff.
The following Sunday, the group started on our five day hike on the
Appalachian Trail. We hiked to Zealand Falls Hut that night and on Monday we
hiked to Mitzpah Spring Hut which was seven miles all up hill. Then, Tuesday,
we hiked to Lake of the Clouds hut which was my favorite because he hiked over
tops of mountains where you could see a 360 degree view (it is where you can
see all around you in a circle). Then when we got to the hut, Holly, one of
our leaders, Theresa, Lucy, Martha (our camera person) and I hiked up Mount
Washington for fun. The next day we hiked Mount Washington and went to the
museum and the observatory. There we also saw the Cog Railway. Then we ate
our lunch and hiked back down (it was 3.2 miles down to the hut). Oh, the foot
at the huts is so good, and in the morning at breakfast the crew always does a
skit.
Thursday we hiked down to the Cog Railway base. We met at the bottom and
decided that with our emergency money, (that we never needed) we would all go
out to eat at this really nice hotel restaurant, in our hiking boots and right
off the trail. Then we went back to White Mountain School.
Friday we had a banquet and passed out our swaps. Saturday, we went to
Camp Farnsworth and had a picnic where we met our host families and said "bye"
to all the friends we had made.
On Sunday, the Lamb family took us to the Christa McAuliffe Planetarium and
then we took Meagan home. Then I was off, going home the next day.
I miss the people, the friends and the view. I still have the great
memories.

NOPRINT:
December 1992 (an American Lit assignment for Mr. Lewis, 12/21/92)
I. What's This?
Creeeak, the door made when I opened it. I stepped into a dark long
rectangular room. It wasn't like the others because there were so many hooks
above my reach off to the right on the really long wall. The room was about as
long as me wide. Thump. thump, thump was the sound it made when you ran down
to the other end. Thump, thump, thump. Why was it darker than the rest?
Thump, thump, thump, was the noise of me running in the walk-in closet in my
room in my old house in Hudson.
II. Climbing the Stairs
Climbing the steps in the new house that my dad was building was fun for at
times two or three steps would be missing. I would climb like a monkey all the
time. It scared my mother sometimes. The face she would make and a "get away
from there. You are going to fall and hurt yourself" was sure to follow.
Sometimes they even gave me a hammer so I could help pound in nails all over
the house. Imagine a small paradise in some imaginary world where there was
excitement, fun, magic, danger, and having anything you want able to come true.
III. Cookies
Once the house was built I was a little less than two and I was climbing
into everything. I remember I wanted a cookie that was on top of the fridge so
I'm pushing this heavy chair up to the counter so I could climb on top of it to
get to the counter. Then I'd have to crawl over to the microwave and get on
top of that so I could sit down and eat my cookies out of the cookie jar till
my mom came to make me get down and ruin all the fun.
IV. Taking Naps
I had this old babysitter that I really hated. She scared me all the time
and we weren't able to have any fun. So, when we moved out in the country I
had to have a new babysitter for I was only three. The thing that really
frightened me was that their names were the same. I thought if their names are
the same then they must act the same which means I will hate it there more than
ever. But of course the three year was wrong and even though I ran back home a
couple of days I got to know Juls and from then on instead of Barb I called her
Barbie which no one else is allowed to call her even today. She made taking
naps fun. Barbie would give us a treat after naps like a tootsie roll pop or a
cookie. From then on I loved taking naps.
V. Green Carpet
When kindergarten rolled around we couldn't take naps in the afternoon or
eat homemade cookies that we made for each other in the sand hill. Instead at
school we all got to lay down on the green carpet and relax for awhile.
Sometimes our teacher would read some silly book or something like that even
though I can't remember what they were. I loved the green carpet because we
did things that I liked-- like singing songs, sleeping, listening to the piano,
or playing with toys. The thing I remember most-- THE GREEN CARPET.
VI. Elementary
Then we got to first grade where we actually had to work. Imagine that
work in first grade-- what a joke. After the fun of kindergarten I wasn't
about to stop having fun. That's why I think Mrs. Gutenbouger (her real name
was Gutenberger but I never could say it right) put me in this small class.
First she gave me a test. I hated tests. At the sight of a test I wanted to
hide in a corner. In this class I got out of doing other work. Four or five
of us could do fun things like draw pictures, read neat books and get all sorts
of stickers on our papers. Best of all I never had to do real work til second
or third grade because it was so easy. Oh, I wouldn't know words just like
that but I was learning 'em faster than the others in the group.
VII.Lady
What was really devastating was when my family went on vacation to
California and Disneyland. I had a great time. When we got back we found out
Lady (our dog) had run away the day we had left. I felt so bad having known
that I hurt her feelings by leaving and went and had a great time seeing so
many things and having the time of my life. My mom and brother left and when
they came back they had found her. My brother said because she was gone for so
long she had shrunk really small. Which she really had too. Her whole body
was as big as her head before. He said that I'd have to call her Laddie and
not to call her a her anymore. I really couldn't figure out why. She looked
actually the same except for her size. I didn't care much I was just so glad
to have her home again.
VIII. Rock
"Wait here. I'll be right back," my dad said on a sunny afternoon when
my family went to the Renaissance Festival. He told us to sit on the big rock
and he would be right back. My sister Kari and I just sat there forever.
Really, it was so long that we became hungry. Finally my dad found us again
and said he couldn't find us. He said he was looking for us because he was
so worried.
IX. Camping
My family would go camping in the summer time or go to Montana where my
dad grew up in Jordan, a small town out in the middle of nowhere. But what I
really liked was going to day camps in the summer. I live three or four miles
away but because my parents worked in the summer the only week I wasn't at
Barbie's my dad drove me into town then I would walk about ten blocks to get to
the bus pickup or dad would most likely drop me off. There were always a few
kids there waiting so I was never lonely. Something about camping has always
called me in the summer from day camp at Rolling Ridges to resident camp at
Lakamage and back to day camps where I worked with kids and leaders and now
back to a different resident camp working as a CIT for three weeks at a time.
X. Lazy
Since kindergarten I came home on the bus and Juls wakes me up from
something really interesting and I'd go to her house, but since sixth grade
first I'd go home and watch TV cartoons on channel 9 and have microwave
popcorn, a couple glasses of milk, raid the pickle jar and have a few goodies
on the counter, look to see if I had missed anything that looked good in the
cupboard, and then I'd go over to Juls (if my mom hadn't come home yet). I
really didn't do much, just have a snack and go out and play. My dad always
works late so we ate late at night.
XI. Phipps Center
I had decided that I wasn't having any fun so some of my friends got me
interested in the Phipps productions. One year I was an actor but I wanted to
do something different so the next year I asked to be on crew. For the past
three years I have been a behind the scene type of person. I enjoyed all the
responsibility, prop work, and accomplishing things that I like to do. Do all
the little odds ends that the actors and audience doesn't even think about.
Little things that make a big difference.
XII. Competition
Having fun like this was great so I had decided to go out for track which
was great. Then Becky had mentioned a sport called Cross Country. Becky and a
few others had convinced Jessica, Shelby and I to join. After two years you
look back to see how far you have some from joining to talk and be with friends
to going to State with the same friends that you have grown closer to over the
years. Running is a great sport to be in because it is something you can enjoy
the rest of your life unlike football that you can enjoy only a few years. In
whatever sport you are in, for me running, the more you do it the better you
become. Practice is the main key which cannot be overlooked.
XIII. Jakob
IT'S A BOY! My nephew means so much to me because he has lived with us
all of his life. I can say to me he is a lot like a little brother. Jake and
I have had a lot of good times together. I like to babysit, play, and work with
little kids a lot. And they have been known to like to have me be with them.
I like to see little kids having fun and that's what I see in Jake.
XIV. Senior Scouts
Being in Senior Girl Scouts is more than people think. You are now the
ones that the other girls look up to. Also most are working on their Gold
Award, and have already received the Silver Award. The Gold Award takes a lot
of time-- reading, busy work, interviewing, sharing, community hours,
leadership requirements, and hard work. Now apply all of these plus a four to
five month project which you as the senior plan and put together following
certain requirements. The senior's also do most things with the Cadettes like
patrol meetings, caroling, baking goods for the nursing home, pizza parties,
sharing speakers, working on badge work, and other activities like garage
sales, cooking and serving dinners, and other stuff that makes money for our
troop. I have always noticed that it keeps you so busy while having fun.
My latest memory is mainly art classes. I always liked to draw in
classes since about eighth grade. Expanding into paint having so much that I
can do I realize that there are such needs for a hobby painter. If I keep
practicing I believe something can happen. Art classes gave me an escape route
so I wouldn't have to do other homework all the time. There are so many
medians that you can work with and to remember the seed projects in the middle
school, and pasting in second grade, or paper mache in fourth grade. I would
have so much fun making things.

James H. Brutger, Professor of Art Education at UMD wrote to Jduy Kuechle, Global Student Teaching Director, UM-Morris on December 18, 1997:
Dear Judy,
I am writing on behalf of Robyn Hawkinson. I feel Robyn is an excellent candidate for your Global Student Teaching Program. Her current Unit Cum GPA of 3.48 fails to reflect the fact that she is able to maintain this high average while seeking two teaching majors at the same time, German and Art Education. She is a well organized and intelligent individual. In my classes I find her to be an excellent student. I am impressed with her ability to plan and follow through with her individual assignments. She has good rapport with her fellow students and teachers. I rate Robyn among the upper five percent of the many students that I have worked with over the past thirty years. I feel she will do well as a student teacher in Salt Lake City.
Sincerely, James H. Brutger, Professor of Art Education

Birth	11 May 1976	Hudson, St.Croix, Wis.
Graduation	1994	Hudson High School - Hudson, St.Croix, Wis
Graduation	1998	University of Minnesota-Duluth (BS) - Duluth, Minn.
Marriage	7 Aug 1999	McKinley Minn. - Jeffrey Michael Wefel
Christen		Hudson, St.Croix, Wis., St.Patrick's

Spouse	Jeffrey Michael Wefel (1972 - )
Child	Anthony Michael Wefel (2005 - )
Child	Carter Jeffrey Wefel (2007 - )

Father	Arthur Franklin Hawkinson (1937 - 2021)
Mother	Nancy Lorraine Gartmann (1940 - 2018)
Sibling	Kenneth Arthur Hawkinson (1965 - )
Sibling	Jay Arthur Hawkinson (1969 - )
Sibling	Karine Marie Hawkinson ( - )