Description: Celebrating the life of John Jung by recognizing student achievement and helping those with addictions. The John W. Jung Memorial was established following the tragic death of Dr. John W. Jung on August 27, 2006. Friends and family members conceived the Memorial out of a desire tfurther the values that characterized John's life while helping others avoid the demons of addiction that led this death.
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The Memorial operates on the principal goals of recognizing student achievement by providing scholarships and mentorship to incoming students at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and helping those who suffer from addictions by spreading awareness and researching strategies to help educational institutions and hospitals confront the issue of addiction among students and medical professionals.
Celebrating the life of John Jung by recognizing student achievement and helping those with addictions, mentoring incoming students at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and spreading awareness and researching strategies to help educational institutions and hospitals confront the issue of addiction among students and medical professionals.
Dynamic, encouraging and creative are all adjectives that friends would use to describe John Jung. John was born in Fort Wayne, Indiana on February 24, 1978. As a young boy he moved back to Wisconsin and attended grade school in Waukesha. He then moved to Brookfield where he attended junior high and graduated from Brookfield Central High School in 1996.