New Glarus Graduate Builds Career in Architecture
New Glarus High School graduate Katherine May spent more than a decade earning her architecture license and now leads major design and construction projects, including the latest expansion at New Glarus Brewing Company.
For Katherine May, the path to becoming an architect began with a suggestion from her mother, a classroom aptitude test, and a summer camp that changed everything.
A 2004 graduate of New Glarus High School, May initially envisioned a very different future for herself.
"My mom always suggested I be an architect, but I felt sure I wanted to be an astronomer," she recalled. "Then Mrs. (Monica) Schober gave me an aptitude test in class and Architect was number one on my list. I then decided to take an architecture summer camp at Notre Dame when I was around 15 years old and I was hooked."
More than two decades later, May is a licensed architect, founder of architecture and design firm Paper & Field, and serves as lead architect and construction manager for New Glarus Brewing Company, where she is helping oversee the brewery's ambitious expansion project.
Her journey, however, was anything but easy.
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