S.C. legislator elected to MU board
A Marquette University alum who is now a Republican state senator in South Carolina was elected to the Marquette University Board of Trustees on Wednesday.
Greg Ryberg is a native of Eau Claire who graduated from Marquette in 1968 with a bachelor’s degree in mathematics. After graduation he worked at Kimberly-Clark in Neenah and at the Sanford Corp. in Chicago before moving to South Carolina in 1977. He also served in the United States National Guard from 1968 to 1974.
In 1977, Ryberg purchased an oil distributorship in Aiken, S.C., and started a convenience store business. He built 53 stores employing more than 550 people before selling to a public company in 1999.
He is serving his fourth term as a South Carolina legislator.
Ryberg and his wife, Elizabeth Denkewalter, met at Marquette. They have three children.
By Tom Held
The Journal Sentinel
September 18, 2008
