Former convict’s estate funds first-of-its-kind UW-Madison scholarship for ex-offenders

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Roger-Bruesewitz (1).jpg — Roger Bruesewitz inside a prison library in the 1970s.
VIA MARY ROUSE

01BruesewitzEstate0006AJA-03312021171508 — Mary Rouse, former dean of students at UW-Madison, took on the responsibility of distributing the estate of her longtime friend Roger Bruesewitz, a former convict and UW graduate who died in 2019. Most of the money went to local organizations focused on journalism education, criminal justice reform and veterans. The most recent donation was used to create a first-of-its-kind UW-Madison scholarship for ex-offenders.
AMBER ARNOLD, STATE JOURNAL

05BruesewitzEstate0084AJA-03312021171508 — A one-time "safecracker," thief and a drug dealer, Bruesewitz realized education held the key to a different life, earning a bachelor's degree in journalism in 1975.
AMBER ARNOLD, STATE JOURNAL

02BruesewitzEstate0013AJA-03312021171508 — Rouse with a picture of longtime friend Roger Bruesewitz working in a prison library.
AMBER ARNOLD, STATE JOURNAL

03BruesewitzEstate0017AJA-03312021171508 — Many of Bruesewitz's photos are of him holding fish he caught.
AMBER ARNOLD, STATE JOURNAL

Roger with fish 1993.jpg — Bruesewitz loved to fish and was able to save up for a small house on a canal of the Yahara River in Monona.
MARTIN ROUSE

IMG_6215[1].JPG — Bruesewitz loved to fish and was able to save up for a small house on a canal of the Yahara River in Monona.
JIM BRUESEWITZ

04BruesewitzEstate0077AJA-03312021171508 — "He left his estate to me not for me personally to buy a better car or anything, but … to see that it would do some good,” Rouse said of Bruesewitz's final request.
AMBER ARNOLD, STATE JOURNAL

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