Steven J. Appel '64 and Joyce C. Appel '82, '85
Steven graduated UWM in 1964, majoring in accounting. Steve was a partner with Arthur Andersen LLP for 25 years and was Managing Director of its Worldwide Enterprise Group and its Worldwide Financial Consulting Services Group. Steve also was CEO of an NYSE retail company. Steve presently advises and invests in small and middle-market companies facing rapid and significant change. Joyce earned a BS in Social Welfare in 1982 and an MSW in Social Work in 1985 from the UWM School of Social Welfare. She served as Vice President, Clinical and Case Management Services at Jewish Family Services, Inc and retired in 2008.
Impact
UWM provided affordable access to an education that helped us grow personally and professionally and enabled each of us to focus on a career choice. UWM was the door to our future. We want to provide scholarships to motivated students with a demonstrated financial need to enable prioritization of coursework and reduce the need to work. We want to give a “leg up” to the student we once were.