APPLETON, WIS. — Michael Cisler, former president and CEO of JanSport, Inc., and Margy Upton Trumbull, an arts patron and community leader in Toledo, Ohio, were recently elected to the Lawrence University Board of Trustees. They will join the board in January and serve three-year terms.
Cisler, who lives in Neenah, began his career with JanSport in 1977. During his tenure with the company, he held senior positions in operations, information systems, marketing, finance and strategic planning. In 2000, Cisler spearheaded the company’s acquisition of its largest rival, Eastpak. He was appointed executive vice president the following year and was named company president in 2002. He retired two years later when JanSport’s headquarters relocated from Greenville to California.
A 1978 graduate of Lawrence, Cisler is member of the corporate board of directors for the YMCA of the Fox Cities and served seven years (1989-96) on the Lawrence University Alumni Association Board of Directors. He also was appointed to two committees established by the college’s board of trustees: the Task Force on Residential Life and the Presidential Search Committee that nominated Jill Beck as Lawrence’s 15th president.
He chaired the Class of 1978’s 25th Reunion Gift Committee and was recognized in 2003 with the Alumni Association’s Outstanding Service to Lawrence Award. Cisler’s daughter, Caitlin, graduated from Lawrence in 2006.
A silversmith who earned a degree in studio art from Lawrence in 1972, Trumbull is the current president of the board of the Arts Commission of Greater Toledo. She began her arts career working at the Toledo Museum of Art as part of a program sponsored by the National Endowment for the Arts and ran a fine arts jewelry business for several years.
She has served on the Design Review Board for several projects in the Toledo area, including the Vietnam Memorial Plaza and the public art project for Fifth Third Field, home of the Toledo Mud Hens AAA minor league baseball team. In addition, she has served as co-chair of Lucas County’s Art in the Park festival.
