Biography
Born to Joseph and Helen Pomprowitz, Joan Schaupp has resided in the Green Bay area for the entirety of her life. Married to Robert Schaupp, she currently lives in De Pere and has 4 children, 10 grandchildren and 3 great-grandchildren.
Expressing her talents in areas such as management and writing, Joan Pomprowitz Schaupp, DMin, has served as the director and officer of the P&S Investment Company Inc. since 1982. She held the position of director of strategic planning and was named vice-chairman since 1994. Initially seeking a career in journalism, she embarked upon her professional path as a woman's editor for the Green Bay Press-Gazette in 1955, remaining in this position for one year before establishing a practice as a freelance writer from 1957 to 1975. Following the passing of her father, Joseph Pomprowitz, she became director and secretary-treasurer of LCL Transit in 1962. After the company was reorganized as P&S Investment Company Inc. in 1982, she continued as director, and also held the position of director of strategic planning. Dr. Pomprowitz Schaupp recently succeeded her husband, Robert Schaupp as chairman in 2018. She is founder and president of the Manna Farms Company and Ephraim Publishing, and is currently writing a book pertaining to the importance of family business.
Dr. Pomprowitz Schaupp attended the University of Wisconsin-Madison, earning a Bachelor of Science, cum laude, in 1954. She continued with a Master of Arts in 1982 at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay. She concluded her education at the Graduate Theological Foundation in Mishawaka, Indiana in 1996, obtaining a Doctor of Ministry. Additionally, Dr. Pomprowitz Schaupp received a certificate in theology from Saint Norbert College in De Pere, Wisconsin in 1979. She notes that during the second half of her life, her scripture studies led her to focus on her family business, the garden, and the desire to care for the land, to establish Manna Farms. Dr. Pomprowitz Schaupp communicates the following motto: "To feed the hungry, someone has to farm."
A master gardener, Dr. Pomprowitz Schaupp served on the beautification committee of De Pere, Wisconsin from 1991 to 1992. Moreover, she contributed as a landscape design consultant for the National Federation of Garden Clubs, Inc. Dr. Pomprowitz Schaupp held the role of the vice minister of the Assumption Province of the National Fraternity of the Secular Franciscan Order from 1991 to 1992. In the field of journalism, she maintains involvement with the National Press Club. Saint Norbert College honored Dr. Pomprowitz Schaupp with the Ambassador Award in 1997 and Distinguished Service Award in 2007.