ALUMNI REVIEW University of North Dakota Alumni Association Sarah Newgard, ’00, ’03, leaves the corporate world behind to pursue her dream of helping others live a healthy lifestyle. p. 4

Photo by Sam Melquist

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3 MESSAGE FROM DEANNA An invitation to Homecoming 2018. 4 5 1968 REMEMBERED Looking back at a year that changed everything. 12 THE BEAT GOES ON Terry Dullum, ’70, reflects on campus life at the end of the 1960s. 17 FIRST CLASS On the 50th anniversary of the Aerospace program, Bob Leppke, ’68, 10 remembers the passion that started it. 20 LIVE FOR GAMEDAY See the schedule for Homecoming 2018. 14 22 AWARDS SEASON Meet the recipients of the Sioux Awards and Young Alumni CEO | DeAnna Carlson Zink, ’86 UND ALUMNI ASSOCIATION & FOUNDATION BOARD OF DIRECTORS Editor | Milo Smith Achievement Awards. Chair | Doug Podolak, ’72 Associate Editor | Alyssa Konickson, ’06 Vice Chair | Sara Garland, ’68, ’72 Designer | Sam Melquist 41 CAMPUS NEWS Directors Contributing Writers Cindy Blikre, ’91; Steve Burian, ’90, ’92; Phil Gisi, ’82; The latest news from your alma mater. Dr. John Gray, ’87; Mike Hamerlik, ’84, ’88; Marten Hoekstra, ’82; Leanna Ihry, ’02 Jonathan Holth; Linda Laskowski, ’72, ’73; Dr. Michael LeBeau, ’02; Connor Murphy Rick Lee, ’78; Doug Mark, ’86; Rob Mitchell, ’74; Carrie McIntyre 58 TRAGEDY INTO LEGACY Panetta, ’88; Fernanda Philbrick, ’94, ’96; Karen Phillips, ’77; Jim Jan Orvik, ’94 Poolman, ’92; Jodi Rolland, ’92; Cathy Rydell, ’88; Dave Saggau, ’86, Jena Pierce ’89; Chad Wachter; and Terri Zimmerman, ’85. School of Law graduating class Brian Schill, ’00, ’05 Ex Officio dedicates gift to professor's family Lauren Vetter, ’18 Dr. Tom DiLorenzo; Mark Kennedy; Nancy Peterson, ’90; Jed Shivers; Dr. Joshua Wynne; and DeAnna Carlson Zink, ’86. Contributing Photographers following a heartbreaking death. Tyler Ingham The University of North Dakota Alumni Review (USPS 018089: ISSN Jackie Lorentz 0895-5409) is published three times a year by the University of 67 ALUMNI NEWS Sam Melquist North Dakota Alumni Association, 3501 University Avenue, Stop 8157, Grand Forks, ND 58202-8157. Shawna Noel Schill, ’06 Who’s doing what: news about your Periodical postage paid at Grand Forks, ND 58201 and other offices. POSTMASTER: Send address changes to the Alumni Review, 3501 University Avenue, Stop 8157, Grand Forks, ND 58202-8157. fellow classmates. For inquiries about advertising, additional copies, reprints, submissions, or general comments, contact 800.543.8764, 701.777.0831 or [email protected]. 77 ADDITIONS & CELEBRATIONS FIND THE FLAME Celebrating alumni weddings, We’ve cleverly hidden the UND anniversaries, and births. flame somewhere on our cover. Find it for a chance to win a prize! 79 IN MEMORIAM Simply e-mail AlumniReview@ UNDalumni.net and give a detailed description of the flame’s location.

2 Alumni Review | Summer 2018 DEANNA’S LETTER

UND DAY AT TARGET FIELD DeAnna is joined by other UND supporters in taking a photo during the ceremonial first pitch at UND Day at Target Field July 6. More on page 58. CAMPUS Photo courtesy of Minnesota Twins MEMORIES Dear Alumni & Friends, One of the wonderful things about my job an unpopular war in Vietnam—after having as CEO of the UND Alumni Association & grown up in the relative calm of the post-war Foundation is interacting with alumni from boom. all eras of this great University's past. Each graduating class not only has memories It will be fun to have the graduates of 1968 of their time on campus, but also the big back on campus for their golden reunion moments of pop culture, world and U.S. news, during Homecoming in September. The class and sporting events that occurred while they has been especially active in planning the were earning their degrees. event. They have invited all grads from 1964- 70 to attend as well. See page 6 for a list of Attending UND in the mid-'80s, I remember reunion events. the release of Michael Jackson's Thriller album, Ronald Reagan winning a second term Homecoming over Minnesota's Walter Mondale, and the Speaking of Homecoming, I hope you have disastrous introduction of New Coke. Of course, made arrangements to be in Grand Forks Sept. the news event from that era that is seared 17-22. Due to a scheduling quirk, Homecoming in my mind was the space shuttle Challenger is being combined this year with another fan- explosion that killed seven astronauts on favorite, the 53rd annual Potato Bowl USA. January 29, 1986. Anyone from my era can tell you where they were when they heard about That means there will be that many more that tragedy. activities going on that week with traditional Homecoming events liked the Sioux Awards But for sheer volume of earth-shattering events combined with Potato Bowl favorites like the and cultural happenings, the late 1960s was Simplot French Fry Feed. A grand parade on probably the most tumultuous period in U.S. Saturday, September 22, will be one you won't history since the end of World War II. As you'll want to miss! see in the pages of this issue, the students of the late '60s went through some major Check out pages 20-21 to see the alumni upheaval—from political assassinations to schedule for Homecoming, and starting on

3 Alumni Review | Summer 2018 page 22 you can read the biographies of the Thank you for all that you do to advance this outstanding alumni who will receive Sioux great institution and its amazing students. Awards and Young Alumni Achievement I look forward to welcoming you back to Awards at the awards banquet on Thursday, campus this fall. September 20. Sincerely, Board of Directors I cannot begin to tell you how valuable the members of the UND Alumni Association & Foundation Board of Directors are to DeAnna Carlson Zink, '86, CFRE our success as a fundraising and alumni UND Alumni Association & Foundation CEO relations organization. At our May meeting, [email protected] we welcomed three new members to the board: Karen Phillips, '77, Jonathan Holth, and Dr. Michael LeBeau, '02. I look forward to working with these three on our mission of supporting the University of North Dakota and its outstanding students. At the May meeting, we also said our goodbyes to outgoing board members Jody Feragen, '78, and Kris Compton, '77. Both of these women brought incredible attention to detail to our board, and I want to thank them both for their steady guidance and insightful leadership. State of the Foundation Finally, I'd like to extend an invitation to attend the State of the Alumni Association & Foundation Address at 4:30 p.m. on August 28 at the Gorecki Alumni Center. I'll be discussing the results of Fiscal Year 2018, which ended on June 30, and will talk about how our organization is working to stand up and lead UND students, faculty, and alumni into the future. If you can't attend, we'll post a video of the address to our YouTube channel soon after.

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1968: THE YEAR THAT CHANGED EVERYTHING UND students experienced upheaval and unrest during 12 months of explosive world events

5 Alumni Review | Summer 2018 Photo by Sam Melquist Homecoming 2018 will be a special event for graduates of 1968. These "Golden Graduates" are invited to campus for a 50th reunion. Organizers from the class are also inviting other classes from that era to attend. In addition to all the other Homecoming happenings (see p. 17), there are special events planned for the Golden Grads including: Friday, Sept. 21 UND Campus Bus Tour Noon - 1:30 p.m. Meet at Gorecki Alumni Center at 11:50 a.m. Forum on 1968 2 - 4 p.m. UND School of Medicine and Health Sciences Join classmates, friends, and students to discuss and reflect Even in Grand Forks, where the pace on the year that launched an era of major social, political and cultural change. Share your firsthand experiences and of change can sometimes lag the rest perspectives with an undergraduate class that is focusing on of the country, there was no denying 1968 and how the events of that time impacted students and the cultural and political impacts of the country. 1968. Class of 1968 Welcome Reception 5:30 - 7:30 p.m. Sara Garland came to UND from EERC Discovery Hall western North Dakota in 1964, Saturday, Sept. 22 graduating with a bachelor's degree Class of 1968 Reception and Dinner in Communications in 1968. She 7 p.m. says there was a "sea change" from Tickets: $45 freshman year to senior. Gorecki Alumni Center To register for Golden Grad events, visit "We were almost kind of stuck in the UNDalumni.org/goldengrad. 1950s in terms of how we saw the Sara Garland, '68, '72, along with other classmates, has world," says Garland of her early years established a Class of 1968 Endowment that will provide at UND. "By the time we left in 1968, scholarships to UND students in perpetuity. there was a lot of political awareness. "Although everybody else thinks it too, I believe my class was The young men who were at UND in the greatest," says Garland. "I would like our class to leave the late sixties had the draft hanging some kind of legacy for students who are now at UND or who over their heads and it wasn't just a in the future will go to UND so that they might have the same kind of experience that we did." draft, but it was a draft that could lead them to going into combat in another To give to the endowment, checks can be made payable to the UND Foundation with Class of 1968 Endowment on the part of the world. And I think that memo line. forced a lot of people into a pretty stark reality about their lives." Mail checks to: University of North Dakota Foundation 3501 University Avenue, Stop 8157 Grand Forks, ND 58202-8157 You can also give online at UNDalumni.org/1968. Questions: Contact Kim Woods, Senior Director of 6 Alumni Review | Summer 2018 Development, at 800-543-8764 or [email protected]. SIGNS OF THE TIMES Above: Two UND students on an April 1968 journalism department field trip to Germany read about Dr. Martin Luther King's assassination as reported by a West German newspaper in Cologne. Photo courtesy of Elwyn B. Robinson Dept. of Special Collections Left: Richard Nixon campaigned throughout 1968, winning the Republican nomination and then the presidency. Photo courtesy Wikimedia Commons/Ollie Atkins

Making News

Vietnam was the living room war in that it was the first international conflict to be broadcast into homes across the U.S. By 1966, 93 percent of Americans owned a television. At UND, like most other universities in the country, televisions in dorm rooms were rare. Students instead would gather in student lounges to catch the evening news, and each day it seemed brought new, compelling developments. 1968 began with the Tet Offensive in which the assault from the North Vietnamese

7 Alumni Review | Summer 2018 CAMPUS CONSTRUCTION Construction on Wilkerson Dining Center can be seen in this aerial photo from 1968. Also visible in this photo is the roofline of Gamble Hall, which opened to students that year. Photo courtesy of Elwyn B. Robinson Dept. of Special Collections contradicted the Johnson administration's was supposed to be: a place of learning and claims of the south winning the war over discovery and awareness and understanding. weak communist forces. There were two There was a good faculty, people who did assassinations that rocked the country— their best to help us work through what we Martin Luther King Jr. in April and Robert saw as problems and challenges. The place Kennedy in June. Lyndon B. Johnson really felt alive." announced he would not seek reelection leading to high political theatre and unrest Life on campus, of course, was not all protests at the political conventions that year, and and politicking. Students went to class, dated, students around the county and world began attended concerts and all the other typical to make news for rising up in protest. The happenings of college life. But it was hard to pace and gravity of news and events in 1968 escape the landscape-shattering events that prompted Smithsonian Magazine to recently intruded on that idyllic existence. label it "The Year that Shattered America." The Student Voice "It was an exciting time and we felt alive and As the main voice of students, The Dakota we felt engaged," says Chuck Haga, who came Student chronicled that news on a local and to UND in 1967 and wrote for The Dakota global scale. Student. "The University felt like what it

8 Alumni Review | Summer 2018 SIGNS OF THE TIMES Top: Boeing Corporation unveiled the 747 in 1968.

Photo courtesy of Boeing Bottom: The assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. on April 4, 1968, would lead to rioting in more than 100 cities. Photo courtesy of Library of Congress

A January issue of the newspaper carried front page stories about an alumnus being indicted for refusing induction into the armed services while the Rev. Robert Branconnier, chaplain of the UND Newman Center, gave his thoughts on five men indicted in Boston for encouraging non-cooperation with the Selective Service System. Rev. Branconnier had, in the fall of 1967, announced to campus that he would aid, abet, and encourage young men to resist the draft. Rev. Branconnier would be a prominent figure on campus throughout 1968. He led weekly silent protests and encouraged students to use their voices to effect change. By the end of the year, though, his activism proved to be too much for the diocese. After being asked by Bishop Leo F. Dworshak to forego plans for a draft card burning ceremony in November, Father Branconnier canceled the ceremony and resigned the position he'd held since 1953. In March, former Dakota Student editor Mike Jacobs, ’70, ’14, who would later become editor and publisher of the Grand Forks Herald, led a group of students to Bismarck to deliver an anti-war petition to Governor William Guy. He had tried to give the petition to the governor

9 Alumni Review | Summer 2018 CAMPUS PROTESTS Regular silent protests were held on the UND campus, organized by Rev. Robert Branconnier (left). Photo courtesy of Elwyn B. Robinson Dept. of Special Collections when he attended the grand opening of a next Dakota Student. He wrote that he felt new movie theater on South Washington Governor Guy was patronizing and lectured Street in Grand Forks, but Guy had told him the protesters that there was not an easy that wasn't the place for such things. solution to Vietnam. Haga felt the governor missed the point of the petition, which asked About 70 protesters showed up outside the him to relay to the President "…my grief 'at Capitol Building on March 2. They were met the continued loss of life of American and by a small group of counter-protesters who Vietnamese civilian and military personnel.'" threw nuts at them—"nuts for the nuts." But they got a meeting with the governor and Reflecting on those heady days of protest, were able to deliver their petitions. Haga says, "It felt like it was important. We weren't just playing. It was serious stuff. Chuck Haga was part of the group and wrote But we really thought that it would make a a first-person account of the protest for the difference."

10 Alumni Review | Summer 2018 While student protests around the country did Looking Back eventually sway public opinion against the war in Vietnam, Haga says it is disappointing to see Even with the anxiety of world events, both that other issues important to students of that Haga and Garland have fond memories of their era have not advanced sufficiently over the time at UND in the late '60s. past 50 years. Garland, who is part of a group organizing "Sexism, racism, war, economic disparities: If a Class of '68 reunion during Homecoming we could have looked ahead 50 years back in (see sidebar on p. 5), says the awakening that 1968 and seen how little progress we made happened during her UND days has stuck in some areas, it would have been a sad with her. "We went about our business going moment." to class and being involved in extracurricular Not all news in The Dakota Student dealt with activities and that kind of thing. But I think, for the big national issues of the day. Early in the me at least, there was a much larger awareness year, the pages of the paper and the campus that took place because of what was going were abuzz with calls for the unmasking of on nationally and how we could actually be members of Iron Mask. Editor Jim Conmy part of making a change. That was another big opined that members of the secretive moment of awakening: knowing our voices organization were spies for President George could make a difference in terms of national Starcher's administration and he warned policy." readers to "watch what you say, what you Garland's political activism on campus led to do and where you go." The issue culminated a career in politics. She spent four decades with Student Body President Wayne "Rusty" in Washington, D.C., including serving as the Drugan announcing he was a member of Iron Chief of Staff to North Dakota Senator Kent Mask. Drugan called for the establishment of a Conrad. similar, but open organization on campus. He then resigned his presidency. Chuck Haga turned his experience on the staff of The Dakota Student into a career in Other campus news to hit the pages of the journalism. After award-winning stints with paper included complaints about the lack the Grand Fork Herald and Minneapolis Star- of student seating at hockey games in the Tribune, he is now retired, but is influencing Winter Sports Building, theft at the bookstore, the next generation of writers by teaching in the demise of the English Proficiency Test as the UND Department of Communication. a requirement of graduation, and a kerfuffle over the printing of a photo in the paper that "I remember a sense of hope and a sense of showed unsold tickets from the Ramsey Lewis optimism, a belief in the idea of progress, Trio concert laid out to spell a swear word. That a sense that there was a lot that was really incident almost got the editor fired. messed up, but it was going to get better," says Haga. "We were marching toward a better world. We were at least seeking a newer world in Bobby Kennedy's phrase." /// — By Milo Smith

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THE BEAT GOES ON

Longtime Grand Forks journalist Terry Dullum, ’70, remembers what life was like on campus during the turbulent end to the 1960s

12 Alumni Review | Summer 2018 What were the 1960s like at UND? I ought So much was happening everywhere and to know, I guess. I was an undergraduate so much of it was happening on television. I student at UND working on a broadcasting was in the Walsh Hall TV lounge one Sunday degree during the last few years of a decade night when I heard Lyndon Johnson tell the that's been called tumultuous, turbulent, nation, "I shall not seek, and I will not accept, transformative and much else. More than a the nomination of my party for another few images stick with me five decades later. term as your President." I first learned of the death of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. watching The Vietnam War was raging. Cultures were the surreal, black and white images on the clashing. Authority was being challenged at television in someone's dorm room. almost every turn. On campus, where life has been described sometimes as like living in a It would be hard for a time traveler to miss bubble, none of it could be avoided for very the look of the '60s, especially the hair. It was long. long; very, very long. Often men's hair was longer than women's. We thought it looked The war seemed to divide everybody good. politically and even culturally in ways hard to imagine today. Either you were for the war or It was fashionable to make an anti-fashion you were against it. And that's the way it was. statement. The best way to do that was with There was little "in between." lots of denim, bell-bottoms or "flair" jeans being preferable. A couple pair and a few Although fewer than at some other schools, shirts and you could almost get through an there were protests and demonstrations at entire semester. Guys could, anyway. UND. I vividly recall one that was especially moving. As we left the campus and marched Denim wasn't the only fashion statement through a residential area of Grand Forks, being made, however. More than a few ROTC an older woman with gray hair quietly left (Reserve Officers' Training Corps) uniforms through the front door of her home, turning could also be seen on campus, especially off her porch light and joining the students, on Fridays, if memory serves me, when most of whom were a fraction of her age. We cadets wore their dress uniforms to classes. walked to a nearby cemetery to honor young The contrast between the neatly trimmed, military men who had died in Vietnam and smartly uniformed ROTC cadets and the to make a statement against the war. That intentionally shaggy look of most of the rest night I learned that protesters don't have to of us was stark. be young. If it was the era of sex, drugs and rock 'n' George Starcher was UND President, but roll, what I remember most was the music, often it was a younger Tom Clifford, then so much of it on campus. From local bands dean of the business school, who stood out playing frat house and dorm parties, to me. He was an artist at negotiating with covering The Beatles and The Young Rascals, sometimes highly motivated students bent to acts like Chicago, Neil Diamond, The Four on making sure their causes were heard. Seasons, The Ramsey Lewis Trio and even Pat I remember thinking at the time this guy Boone from the previous decade, appearing would make an awfully good president some at the UND Fieldhouse(the Chester Fritz day. Auditorium was still in the dreaming and planning stages).

13 Alumni Review | Summer 2018 It's no coincidence that the first production faculty members who seemed undistracted I saw at Burtness Theatre in the fall of 1967 by the times and devoted only to teaching. was something called "MacBird!" The satire, which parodied scenes from Shakespeare's One of the most popular courses on campus "MacBeth," was decidedly anti-war and anti- was a religion course on mysticism taught Lyndon Johnson. by a young rabbi who drove from Winnipeg weekly to teach it. The first 20 minutes Campus speakers were another form of of each class period was dedicated to entertainment. Many of them controversial, meditation, a practice I would take up again they drew large crowds to the UND Ballroom. daily more than four decades later. Comedian and activist Dick Gregory spoke for two hours on injustice in America. Gus For better or for worse, not all learning in the Hall, the long-time head of the Communist '60s was taking place in the classroom. Party in America, was considered dangerous Someone organized a "free university" one by some, ineffective as a speaker by year, a series of classes outside the confines others. Cartoonist Al Capp, the creator of of the university's administration, with no the Li'l Abner comic strip and a staunch fees, no grades, no credits and no thought conservative who relished sparring with whatsoever given to what it would mean hecklers on college campuses, clashed with for our future careers or paychecks. It was UND audience members during a question/ learning for the sake of learning, for the fun answer session. A young Peter Jennings, not of it. yet the main ABC News anchor he would become, but already very much a dashing, Then there was something called encounter globe-trotting reporter, told students what groups. Students would sign up for a most of them wanted to hear: that they marathon session, often on a weekend, that should shake up the establishment "just could last as long as 24 hours or more! A as long and as hard" as they thought is leader would try to get students to shed their necessary. inhibitions and express their real feelings. The groups would be encouraged to display In the classroom, things were changing. affection, but also criticism and anger. Business majors would come back from their Today encounter groups seem to have gone computer labs with thick stacks of mysterious mostly the way of waterbeds and macramé "punch cards." Their computer was rumored hangings. to take up an entire room somewhere on campus. The idea that one day we would More lasting events were being organized, all be computer nerds, to one degree or too, like the very first Earth Day celebration. another, was almost unthinkable then. And the first UND Writers Conference, which would become one of the premiere events of I remember a friend just back from attending its kind in the country and continues to this Dr. Elwin Robinson's final lecture. She was day. Dr. Don McCaffrey's UND Film Society in tears. Much loved, Dr. Robinson was the would entertain and inform movie buffs for author of "The History of North Dakota," still years to come. the definitive history of the state. To this day I regret not taking his History of North Dakota And there were the first rumblings (for me, class. He was just one of UND's outstanding at least) of the women's movement. Along

14 Alumni Review | Summer 2018 A COMFORTABLE SEAT Terry Dullum spent many hours as a student working on Burtness Theatre productions. Photo by Sam Melquist with their textbooks, many female students too was Sammy Sioux, a cartoon mascot carried copies of books like "Our Bodies, created by the Feathers, literally come to life. Ourselves" and something called "The Feminine Mystique." UND hockey was a big deal even then. But attending a game in the original Winter For further reading material there was always Sports Building was nothing like today. The The Dakota Student, often pushing the building was better known as "the barn" journalistic envelope and sometimes taking and for good reason. A quonset covered heat from the administration, even state in corrugated steel, it looked like nothing lawmakers, for doing so. so much as, well, a barn. What it lacked in aesthetics, it also lacked in creature comforts. Love might have been in the air. But so, too, The main part of the building was unheated; was a lot of smoke. Its dangers hadn't quite completely unheated. Who could blame sunk in yet. Smoking was allowed just about the occasional student for sneaking a little everywhere on campus, with the possible "hot chocolate" into a game? Although exception of classrooms. nothing like today's Ralph Engelstad Arena Not everything in the '60s was political or experience, watching a hockey game in the alternative. Tradition trumped counterculture '60s was fun. in some aspects of campus life. And, of course, there was Phil Jackson, There was Homecoming with its parade and playing basketball like I'd never seen it Homecoming Queen Contest. The leather played before, on the brink of becoming jacket-clad Golden Feathers, an elite male a star NBA player, coach, executive and, pep club, were a big part of Homecoming. eventually, one of the biggest names in Unencumbered by political correctness, so sports.

15 Alumni Review | Summer 2018 For some of us there were more than classes, So much was happening in the '60s, my tests and grades hanging over our heads. In recollections could easily be entirely different December of 1969, the first draft lottery since from someone else who lived through the World War II was instituted in Washington. decade. As cartoonish as some of it seems I was helping build scenery for the latest now, and as it is often portrayed today, there production at Burtness Theatre when I learned was great sincerity in the '60s. Many students that my lottery number of 7 would almost were in school not just to learn how to make a certainly guarantee that I would be drafted. living. They also seemed focused on a bigger Someone said, "Terry's going to be a soldier!" picture and with a world view sometimes Ten months later, that prediction would come missing today. true. What were the '60s like? Time takes the edge For me and many others, the '60s ended off some of it. It also muddles much else in our a few months into the next decade, in the memories. But I know I wouldn't have wanted spring of 1970 with the Kent State shootings to miss it for the world. in Ohio. Four unarmed students were killed Despite the distractions of the times, or maybe by National Guard soldiers during a campus in some cases because of them, I learned a lot protest. Hundreds of universities and colleges at UND. I learned to love journalism and art. I throughout the country closed in sympathy learned to love knowledge. I learned to love in what was called a student strike of as learning. /// many as 4 million students. About a month before the end of the school year, most UND — By Terry Dullum, '70 students were given a choice of taking a grade for the work they had done up until then, or Terry Dullum graduated from UND in 1970. continuing on with classes and final exams "as After a stint in the Army, he settled into a usual." long career in journalism. He was an anchor, My final final exam at UND could hardly have producer, and reporter for the Grand Forks been more memorable. As many of us were ABC affiliate, WDAZ-TV, for 39 years before taking finals, someone called in a bomb threat retiring in 2014. to Merrifield Hall. The building was evacuated. Dozens of us, including the student who would become my wife, sat on the lawn for the better part of an hour, waiting to be allowed back in our classrooms. By the way, my future wife and I never met that day or any other day at UND, even though we were both in school during the late '60s. Ginny lived in Smith Hall. I lived in Walsh. We never met on campus. It wasn't until several years later we were introduced by a mutual friend I had worked with at the campus radio station, KFJM.

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FIRST CLASS Bob Leppke remembers the passion that inspired 50 years of aviation at UND Bob Leppke, '68, remembers when he the materials that would be needed. I was was first introduced to John Odegard. so excited about the class that I immediately Leppke was a senior at UND, majoring in headed over to the bookstore to get what business, with one semester of studies left was needed. He told us that the course to complete. He was looking for something would prepare us for the FAA private pilot different than the usual business courses and written exam, which would be part of our noticed an Introduction to Aviation course. class grade.” “Growing up on a farm southwest of The class was made up of students with a Carrington,” Leppke explained, “I was always mix of experience, some having no aviation interested in airplanes. I built many model background and some who had already airplanes and enjoyed watching a neighbor started flight instruction. Leppke remarked fly his Piper Cub over our farm. However, I that growing up on a farm gave him an never had the opportunity to experience appreciation for the technical aspects of the flight.” course, so he felt it was a good fit. Not knowing what to expect, Leppke and 11 “John brought a level of enthusiasm to each other students went to the first UND aviation class that made learning each topic exciting. class, located in a small classroom in the UND I knew it had real application potential so I law building. wanted to do my best,” Leppke remembered. “As I look back now, there is no doubt that his “On the first day of class, John gave us a passion for aviation was rubbing off on me. I detailed plan for the course and listed all

17 Alumni Review | Summer 2018 JOHN D. ODEGARD teaches a class in aviation. The Aerospace school at UND named in his honor is celebrating the 50th anniversary of its founding during Homecoming 2018. See a schedule of events at aero.und.edu/50th. Photo courtesy of UND Aerospace

think that’s why the class had such an impact always there to answer questions.” The only on me. college books and class notes that Leppke has kept from his time at UND were from “I wondered during the semester if I should John’s class. “Every time I review them, they take flying lessons,” said Leppke. “But I was remind me of John and my aviation days at so overloaded with everything else that I UND.” decided to just focus on the class.” Leppke received an A as his final grade in the course. May of 1968 found Leppke with some free time on his hands before graduation in “John stood out from all other instructors August and reporting for Army service in that I had during college,” Leppke explained. November – the perfect opportunity to get “He wanted each student to excel and was his private pilot’s license.

18 Alumni Review | Summer 2018 “John stood out from all other instructors that I had during college. He wanted each student to excel and was always there to answer questions.”

BOB LEPPKE, '68

Assured by Odegard that it was possible to decided it was time to look for employment. complete all of the license requirements After being turned down for airport and airline before November, Leppke began taking flying administration jobs due to a deep recession lessons through the UND Flying Club. One of in the airline industry, Leppke landed a job the invoices Leppke kept shows that he flew 10 in information technology. He spent the rest hours in September, for which he paid $85.80. of his career in information technology and He completed flight training in November of software engineering, working and living 1968 and was issued his private pilot’s license, in Chicago, Boston and Seattle, eventually five days before leaving for the Army. retiring in 2010. Where ever he went, he often During his time in the Army, Leppke continued shared the wonderful opportunities that the to correspond with Odegard and learned UND Aerospace program offered. that he was putting together a curriculum for “Earning my pilot’s license and completing an aviation administration degree. Leppke’s the aviation course had a profound effect on interest in aviation was sparked again, and me,” Leppke remembers fondly. “It allowed Odegard encouraged him to return to UND for me to leave UND with a level of confidence a second degree. that I would not have had without those In August of 1970, Leppke and his wife experiences. Having an instructor like John to returned to UND where he spent the academic encourage me, promote excellence, and instill year studying air transportation, airline confidence – those are the things he left with operations, advanced instrument technology, me. I will forever be grateful to John.” /// airport management and other aviation- — By Jena Pierce related subjects. Unfortunately, as the school year ended, Leppke was two credits short of earning the degree, and he and his wife

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20 Alumni Review | Summer 2018 Thursday, September 20 SMHS Building Tours Accounting Hall of Fame UND Department of Social Work 1 - 3 p.m. 6:30 – 9 p.m. Homecoming Event Register at UNDalumni.org/smhs- Recognizing the 9 a.m. homecoming-2018 accomplishments of the 2018 Hilton Garden Inn Banquet Room UND Accounting Hall of Fame Math Department Open House inductees. ND Digital Atlas Launch Event 2 - 4 p.m. Gorecki Alumni Center 3:15 - 4:30 p.m. Witmer 313 Questions? Laura Arneson | Introducing for the first time, the [email protected] multidisciplinary "ND Digital Atlas" CoBPA Alumni & Friends Social | 701.777.6937 website, to the University and 4:30 - 6:30 p.m. community. Gorecki Alumni Center KEM Shrine "Rockin' the Forks" O'Kelly Hall, Room 260 Great River Energy Terrace 32 Below and Blind Joe outdoor Questions? tanya.butler@UND. concert edu | 701.777.6240 SMHS Homecoming Banquet 6:15 p.m. 5:00 - 8 p.m. Grand Forks Town Square Simplot French Fry Feed Register at UNDalumni.org/smhs- 4 p.m. homecoming-2018 Saturday, September 22 University Park Hilton Garden Inn Banquet Room Potato Bowl & Homecoming Parade Sioux Awards UND Letterwinners Hall of Fame 10 a.m. Social 5:30 p.m. Dinner and Induction Ceremony Downtown Grand Forks on Dinner and Program 6:30 p.m. 5 p.m. Demers Avenue Tickets: $50 SOLD OUT Alerus Center Ballroom Alerus Center Marketing (Distributive) The Sioux Award is the highest Education Students and honor given by the UND Alumni UND School of Law Alumni Social Associates Reunion Association & Foundation for 5 - 7 p.m. 12:30 - 3 p.m. achievement, service and loyalty. Open to all UND Law alumni, Program at 1:30 p.m. Register at UNDalumni.org/ friends and family. Newman Center siouxawards. UND School of Law Central 410 Cambridge St. Questions? events@UNDalumni. Commons net or call 701.777.2611 Questions? [email protected]. Fighting Hawks Live for Gameday edu | 701.777.2282 Tailgate Friday, September 21 2 - 4 p.m. Fighting Hawks Friday Aerospace 50th Anniversary Alerus Center Parking Lot Get your green on and show your Banquet & Celebration spirit! 5:30 p.m. UND Football vs Idaho State Celebrate the 50th anniversary of 4:30 p.m. NPCC Open House the John D. Odegard School of Alerus Center 9:30 - 11 a.m. Aerospace Sciences. Tour the newly integrated training The evening will feature a social, To purchase tickets or to clinic for Speech-Language short program, dinner and see a full list of all Pathology, Clinical Psychology, entertainment by the Dueling Homecoming events, visit and Counseling Psychology Pianos. UNDalumni.org/homecoming. Students. Tickets: $25 Northern Prairie Community Clinic Alerus Center 1st Floor, Columbia Hall Visit UNDalumni.org/aero50 to Questions? jessica.l.foley@UND. purchase tickets edu | 701.777.3312

21 Alumni Review | Summer 2018 SIOUX AWARD

SIOUX AWARD RECIPIENT PHIL JACKSON,’67, HON ’08 He’s been called the greatest NBA coach no Zen Master,” Phil says. “There is just Zen.” of all time, and with a league-record 11 championships (13 if you count his time as He got the often-cited nickname and gained a player), it’s hard to dispute that claim. But media attention for his holistic approach to when he’s referred to as the “Zen Master,” Phil coaching that was influenced by meditation, Jackson,’67, HON ’08, pushes back. “There is Eastern philosophy, and Native American spiritual practices. His approach has its roots

22 Alumni Review | Summer 2018 at the University of North Dakota. “My major of philosophy and religion covered the bases of interest to me, and Phil first came to UND after being recruited I added some accounting, business, and by then-basketball coach Bill Fitch, who also law into that,” Phil said. “It opened the door moved on to a career in NBA coaching. Phil to thinking of other things in my solid earned consecutive All-American honors at background of Christian belief, which was a UND for his performance on the hardwood. A strong influence in my life.” left-handed hook shot helped him to average nearly 27.5 points per game during his senior Even after graduation in 1967, at which year. His athleticism spanned two sports, and time he was drafted to the New York Knicks, he was a standout Major League Baseball he came back to UND for three summers draft prospect for UND’s baseball team. of graduate school, immersing himself in psychology classes to further his education. “I made a right decision in choosing the “The University provided a base and it University of North Dakota because it provided a safe ground for discussion of gave me an opportunity to grow into my thought,” Phil said. “I was fortunate to have physique,” Phil said. “I went to college at 6’6,” many classes that were small, individual, grew 2 inches in college, and I grew into and quite personal where discussion was my frame. In those days, freshmen were permitted. Many of the classes put me in ineligible to play, so I had a year to further contact with people who were also pursuing develop myself.” deeper thought on a personal level.” Growing up in a fundamentalist Christian During those summers, Phil started to build home, where the Bible was the first and the foundation of his coaching philosophy foremost text in the house, Phil always – an approach that created one of the most assumed he would follow in his father’s successful professional basketball coaches footsteps and become a minister. But a of all time. Every year of his 20-year coaching freshman biology lesson on Darwinism set career (nine years with the Chicago Bulls and Phil on what he calls a seeker’s path. 11 years with the LA Lakers), his teams made “I floundered coming to college my freshman the NBA playoffs, winning 11 championship year,” Phil said. “Discussing evolution and titles. He had a winning record every year as the prospects of a different thought process a head coach, and still holds the highest win than what I grew up with was somewhat percentage of any Hall of Fame coach. Along disturbing.” with his NBA-record 11 championships, he is the only coach to win at least 10 And so he poured himself into his education. championships in any of North America's major professional sports.

23 Alumni Review | Summer 2018 In 1996, Phil won the NBA Coach of the Year and social changes to North Dakota over time. Award. That year, as part of the NBA’s 50th “I thought it was a combination of things that anniversary, he was named one of the 10 could bring focus to the identity of the state greatest coaches of all time. In 2002 and 2010 and highlight some of the beauty,” Phil said. the United States Sports Academy awarded Phil retired from coaching in 2011 and joined him the Amos Alonzo Stagg Coaching Award the New York Knicks as an executive in March and he was inducted into the Basketball Hall of 2014, where he was president until 2017. These Fame in 2007. days he spends his time gardening, speaking, Phil credits some of his success to his and writing. “Writing is an ongoing process education on transformational psychology – for me,” Phil said. He has authored nine books what he calls being a manager of personalities. about his teams and his basketball strategies. “The basis for successful living involved this The most recent, “Eleven Rings: The Soul of idea of personal transformation,” Phil said. Success,” was published in 2013. “Well-being, higher thought, higher purpose, He remains interested in supporting education and the idea that you’re working together for Native American populations – another toward something that’s ‘greater than’ fit in interest that got its start at UND, when he very well with the idea of playing on teams participated in the Upward Bound program. and being part of a team.” “I’m really beholden to many of the Lakota He’s coached a wide range of personalities, people who’ve sat in sweat lodges and held including Michael Jordan, Kobe Bryant, prayers for the variety of endeavors I’ve done,” Shaquille O’Neal, and Dennis Rodman. “The he said. extreme pressures directed by media and fans Phil was presented the Theodore Roosevelt create special bonds. They cook you, like being Rough Rider Award, bestowed upon baked in an oven. They solidify the special prominent North Dakotans, in 1992. His relationships – you’re looking out for the best portrait and plaque hang in the state Capitol in interests of your players, and they of you,” Phil Bismarck with other past Rough Rider Award said. winners, such as one-time baseball home run Phil was last on UND’s campus in 2008, when king Roger Maris, band leader Lawrence Welk, he received an honorary degree. He keeps singer Peggy Lee and UND's eighth president tabs on the University, and has a particular Tom Clifford. interest in the College of Arts & Sciences He has five children and eight grandchildren, interdisciplinary Online Atlas Project, which who he says come first in the order of things. analyzes data from the state to create maps He still meditates daily. /// designed to show demographic, economic, — By Alyssa Konickson

24 Alumni Review | Summer 2018 SIOUX AWARD

SIOUX AWARD RECIPIENT JEANNE CRAIN, ’82 Jeanne (Heilman) Crain, ’82, describes the She has been shaping lives for the better University of North Dakota as the “launching in her position as Chief Executive Officer of pad” for her career and personal life. “UND Bremer Financial Corporation, Minnesota's prepared me and launched me in every way largest privately-held commercial bank, since needed, and I’m proud to be an example of November 2016. She has more than 36 years how UND focuses on shaping lives for the of community banking experience, working better,” said Crain. in a variety of roles in commercial and retail

25 Alumni Review | Summer 2018 banking, as well as wealth management. Crain started her career in Grand Forks She has been the recipient of many regional at First Bank System before moving to and national awards, including being named Milwaukee to pursue her Master’s in one of Minnesota’s 10 Top Corporate Women Business Administration. Since then, she by Twin Cities Business Magazine and a Top worked at Bank One Milwaukee, was CEO of Woman in Finance by Finance & Commerce, Marquette Capital Bank, EVP at Excel Bank, and receiving the Women in Business- and president of the Minnesota region for Industry Leader Award from the Minneapolis/ M&I/BMO Harris Bank. Crain joined Bremer in St. Paul Business Journal and the Women’s 2012 as President of the Twin Cities Region, Business Advocate of the Year Award from and now serves as the President and CEO the Women’s Business Development Center. of Bremer Financial Corporation. “Taking on the CEO role for Bremer has been both the Born in New Rockford, North Dakota, into a most challenging and the most rewarding family of eight and growing up 90 miles away opportunity in my banking career,” she says. in Rugby, Crain’s strong roots led her to UND. It was the only school she applied to, due in Despite her many professional part to her family’s legacy at the school, but accomplishments, Crain considers her also because of UND’s well-known programs. greatest accomplishment to be the success of her teams. She values the opportunity and “I entered college somewhat undecided, but responsibility she has to help teams thrive, knew I wanted to pursue a business degree,” collaborate, and find purpose and passion in Crain said. “The school of business was so their work. well known and regarded and had such a variety of curricula to choose from. I felt I “My passion for the business of banking could find my way within that school to land is what fuels me every day. I enjoy the on something of interest to me that would challenge of the work, especially during also drive some great career opportunities.” these times of significant change in the industry. Engaging and empowering teams Crain is thankful she was exposed to different has been a key driver of our success." aspects of business from marketing to economics and finally to finance, and she received a bachelor’s degree in Banking and Finance in 1982.

26 Alumni Review | Summer 2018 Serving customers has always provided Crain Crain credits the University of North Dakota with a sense of purpose. “Finding purpose and for launching her career. She is thankful for the having passion for what I do are the two key support, guidance, and education she received characteristics that have kept me interested in during her four years on campus. “I always the business throughout my career.” appreciated the commitment the university had to shaping students and helping them Crain’s passion for helping others goes beyond land a career,” she says. her work as CEO. She realizes the success of the bank relies on the success of the communities Crain is also thankful for scholarships she they are in, which is part of the reason she’s received and recognizes that she has benefited involved with various charities and community from the generosity of others. This gratitude groups. She serves on the boards of the has motivated her to give back to UND and Greater Twin Cities United Way and the YMCA beyond. “It’s a responsibility to give back.” of Greater Twin Cities and is a member of Receiving the Sioux Award reminds Crain of the Itasca Project and Minnesota Women’s her start at UND. “It’s humbling,” says Crain. She Economic Roundtable. hopes to reflect all the award stands for and She is particularly passionate about the issues to continue to emulate that in the work she around affordable housing, and is currently does. She is particularly honored and proud serving as co-chair of the Governor’s Task Force to receive the award from the state and the on Housing and has taken on the role of co- school where it all began for her. /// chair for the Twin Cities Habitat for Humanity — By Lauren Vetter CEO annual build project. “I believe everyone deserves to have a decent and affordable place they call home,” says Crain.

27 Alumni Review | Summer 2018 SIOUX AWARD

SIOUX AWARD RECIPIENT LAURIS MOLBERT, ’79, ’83 Lauris Molbert has enjoyed a dynamic and serving on boards gratifying, Molbert doesn’t enriching career with beginnings as an count out another full-time executive role if attorney and then as a corporate executive. the “conditions are right.” He is currently serving on several boards, including acting as the Executive Chair of Molbert grew up in a small town, Steele, the Board of the Fargo-based Kilbourne North Dakota, and spent most of his Group; a role he took when the real estate summers working on a nearby livestock development company's founder, Doug and small grain farm owned by his family. Burgum, was elected governor of North His father, Ralph, ’39, ’41, a UND law school Dakota. graduate, was the president and owner of a local community bank in Steele. “My Dad Molbert enjoys the role of a board member. sent me to the farm to work the minute I was Not only does it allow a focus on strategy, old enough. While I grumbled from time to Molbert says “it offers the rewarding time, in hindsight, it was a great experience. I opportunity to assist leadership teams with learned many lessons, including the value of the challenges of executing on strategy and hard work and how to be resourceful.” addressing workplace culture.” While he finds

28 Alumni Review | Summer 2018 Molbert says he arrived at UND with a lack of from $300 million, thanks in large part to the confidence that perhaps came from a small- over 40 acquisitions Molbert lead or oversaw. town upbringing. He was not sure that, with From a company solely operating a regulated his education and experiences, he would electric utility with 800 employees, Otter Tail be able to keep up with those from larger became a company consisting of 12 business communities. He credits UND’s professors for units, including companies in manufacturing, the confidence building he needed. "It was plastics, radio stations, food processing learning, coupled with a culture of pride in, and health care, with more than 4,000 and passion for, students, that gave me the employees and operations in several states. boost that I needed. I left UND with both a With the diversification success, the publicly business and a law degree, but even more traded company was re-branded Otter Tail importantly, with a belief that anything was Corporation. Molbert was named Executive possible.” Vice President and Chief Operating Officer responsible for all businesses, including the After graduating from law school ranked electric utility. second in his class, Molbert joined a law firm in Fargo and developed a practice in creditor "It was a wonderful experience for me," says rights and business law. He left the practice Molbert. "I learned with all these different of law after 12 years to pursue a business businesses the incredible value and power career, but he credits much of his business of engaged cultures and leadership. We were success to his law school education and able to profitably and sustainably grow the skills learned as a lawyer. While he enjoyed diversified family of companies by aligning and had success with the practice of law, he values, by focusing on a performance culture said that he wanted something more—an and by the engagement of leadership teams.” opportunity to create value in the business world where good work and strategy can Molbert left Otter Tail Corporation and lead to much more than the often zero-sum became the CEO of a large owner and battles of legal disputes. operator of hotels in 2011. The company, at the time known as Tharaldson Motels, was Molbert’s opportunity for a business career experiencing significant challenges, ranging came from Fergus Falls, Minnesota-based from very poor guest survey scores to sizable Otter Tail Power Company. He was hired in financial issues. The company, which was re- 1995 as the president of a subsidiary, formed branded TMI Hospitality by Molbert, owned to diversify the publicly traded Otter Tail and operated over 200 hotels in 25 states, to more than just an electric utility. During with over 15,000 guest rooms and 4,500 his tenure with Otter Tail, from 1995-2011, revenues at Otter Tail grew to $1.2 billion

29 Alumni Review | Summer 2018 team members. It was so large Molbert joked During his professional career, Molbert has that “we probably served hotel guests over a given often of his time, talent and treasure. He million bowls of oatmeal for breakfast each has served as Chair of the Board and as a Board year.” Trustee of Sanford Health, one of the largest health systems in the country, during much of In addition to being a large hospitality its expansion into the footprint it has today; he company, it was an employee owned company chaired the Greater Fargo-Moorhead Economic through an Employee Stock Ownership Plan Development Corporation; and spent nine (ESOP). Molbert was told it was the 30th years on the board of the UND Alumni largest ESOP in the country. Association & Foundation (UNDAA&F). With new and existing talent, TMI Hospitably, It was during his time on the UNDAA&F board under Molbert’s tenure, quickly became one that Molbert reconnected with UND. “It was a of the best hotel operators under Marriott great opportunity to once again experience and Hilton select service and extended-stay the impressive energy and passion for brands. While operating under those nationally education and the many talented professors known brands, TMI received many awards and students at UND. And, it was a wonderful recognizing the remarkable turnaround and reminder of how UND shaped me at such an industry leading guest scores. In addition, important time in my life, and provided me the company quickly addressed and resolved with the confidence to set high goals and the the inherited financial issues. That allowed desire to never stop learning.” the ESOP to sell the company and capture significant value for ESOP participants. Molbert says his father believed that it is important to be grateful for the gifts one In 2015, TMI Hospitality was sold to a large has been given and to show that gratitude private equity company, which asked Molbert by giving back. It is this philanthropic spirit to remain as CEO. The company was again sold that led Molbert and his family to pay for in 2017 and Molbert retired from the CEO role. the extensive renovation of the first-year “While it was a very rewarding experience, classroom in the UND School of Law, turning with so much accomplished, it was time to it into a state-of-the-art learning environment catch my breath,” Molbert says. in honor of his father. He has also given to In addition to the business career Molbert support faculty in the College of Business and pursued, he spent significant time helping Public Administration, and to the fund to build his father with efforts to grow the community the Gorecki Alumni Center on campus. bank owned by the Molbert family. When “I have many, foremost my parents, to thank his father retired, Molbert led the ownership for their many examples of how to live a life group of the bank, and helped implement an of purpose, and their encouragement and expansion into Bismarck, North Dakota, as confidence in me. I will be forever grateful for well as a rebranding of the bank as Northland the great start I received from the University of Financial. After successful expansion and North Dakota and believe we should do what growth, Northland Financial was sold in 2015 we can to make sure UND is able to continue to a larger organization, Choice Financial, and to provide that same great start to others for he now serves on Choice’s Board. generations to come." ///

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SIOUX AWARD RECIPIENT MICHAEL LODOEN, ’65 Michael Lodoen cofounded a San Jose, He grew up in Bottineau, North Dakota, and California, construction company 40 years his early claim to fame was his record-setting ago that has built more than 11,000 homes, way in track and field. In high school, he was condominiums and apartments in the San a two-time state champion in the pole vault. Francisco Bay Area. In 1960, he broke the oldest state high school track meet record, which had stood since 1934.

31 Alumni Review | Summer 2018 He competed in track and field at the and the first thing they would say is 'Nick?' University of North Dakota as well while They just didn't register that Mickey was a pursuing his bachelor's degree in Civil name for an adult. I started using Mike and Engineering. He was a Maxwell Upson that took care of that problem." scholar, a member and president of Lambda Chi Alpha social fraternity, a member of the After returning to the United States, Lodoen Student Society of Civil Engineers and the went to work for Bechtel Power Corporation Blue Key Honor Society. in San Francisco. He worked for Bechtel for five years on the construction of two large Following graduation, Lodoen went from coal-fired power plants in Wyoming and working on a hydroelectric power plant Montana. While living in Wyoming, their near Yosemite National Park in California to daughter Melissa was born. Vietnam, where he worked on everything from military bases to roads and bridges. With a dozen years of heavy construction work under his belt, Lodoen wanted to put "Our normal work week was 10 hours a day, down roots and start his own construction six days a week," Lodoen says. "So I was business. A mutual acquaintance put him in getting a lot of experience in a hurry and had touch with Chuck Davidson and the two men a chance to work at a lot of different types of founded L&D Construction Co. Inc. in 1978. construction. It was good for my career." The company has built thousands of homes, Lodoen worked in Vietnam for six years, condos and apartments in the Bay Area over starting as a field engineer and ending as the past 40 years. Though they've always a construction project engineer. During done a fair share of apartments for senior that time, he also met and married his wife, citizens and families with limited incomes, Sitney, and they had the first of two children, that has become their exclusive focus for the son Michael. past decade. He says his UND education served him well, "We could see that there was a real need but early in his career he decided he had to for affordable housing in the Bay Area. It shed something from his past that he felt was a good business decision also because was holding him back a bit. "I quit using the we could make money doing it. So it was a name "Mickey," which everybody called me combination of both being a good thing to when I was growing up and in high school do for society plus it was good business." and university. When I got into the business world and was spending a fair amount of Though Mike’s son, Michael, and another time calling people on the phone that didn't junior partner are now running the day-to- know me and I would say my name is Mickey, day operations of L&D, Mike, at age 76, still

32 Alumni Review | Summer 2018 works part time because he enjoys the work Lodoen says it is gratifying to see how well and feels he still has something to contribute the College of Engineering and Mines (CEM) is to society. excelling. "I'm really pleased with the way the School has increased in size and in particular Working part-time has freed Lodoen to pursue the engineering department since Dean one of his outside passions: travel. He and Hesham El-Rewini has been here. It has really Sitney have visited more than 65 countries. grown and developed." He has been from Antarctica almost to the Arctic Circle. He has trekked in the high The UND Alumni Association & Foundation Himalaya Mountains in Bhutan and the Andes is not the only nonprofit organization to Mountains in Peru. benefit from Mike's generosity. In addition to supporting other charitable causes, he "I've often wondered why I was so interested served four years on the board of directors of in traveling," says Lodoen. "Maybe it's because, a charter high school in San Jose that helps when I was growing up, we never had much underperforming students succeed. He was money. I never had a chance to do very much originally brought on board to assist with traveling and once I got out on my own and some construction projects, but stayed on the had a chance to travel, I was very interested to board even after the projects were completed. go a lot of places and see what the world had He has since financially helped one of the to offer, to see what was there." founders of that school start similar schools in Having been a student with limited means at the area. UND, Lodoen is now a generous supporter of Lodoen, who was inducted into the CEM the Engineering program and its students. Alumni Academy in 2013, says he's very "I know how difficult it is for students to be honored to receive the Sioux Award. He has able to afford a higher education. It was been coming back for Homecoming for over difficult for me, but it was certainly well worth a decade now and has attended many recent it. And so now that I'm financially in a much Sioux Award banquets. better position than I ever dreamed I would "It was a complete shock to me," Lodoen says be, I'm more than happy to be able to send of being told he would be honored with a some money back to the University and help Sioux Award. "I never expected to be part some of the students and help the University of that group, but it's very nice and I really in general with continuing the good work that appreciate the recognition." /// enabled me to be successful." — By Milo Smith

33 Alumni Review | Summer 2018 SIOUX AWARD

SIOUX AWARD RECIPIENT MARY MARING, ’75 Mary (Muehlen) Maring, ’75, wrote more So while the U.S. Supreme Court might take than 800 majority opinions, dissents, and 50-80 cases for oral arguments in a year, concurring opinions during a nearly 18- Maring says she heard more than 3,200 oral year career as a North Dakota Supreme arguments during her time on the bench. Court Justice. That’s nearly 50 per year; an And while that meant a lot of work – “We indication of just how busy the schedule is pretty much worked around the clock” – for the state’s top court. Maring loved it. That’s because, unlike the U.S. Supreme “I feel very lucky,” says Maring of her years on Court and some other state supreme courts the high court. “I think that it’s important for that are able to choose which cases to hear, people to find their passion in life, and I feel North Dakota’s high court must take every like I did. It was really a good fit for me and case properly appealed to it. I’m very happy about it.”

34 Alumni Review | Summer 2018 Even as a teenager growing up in the small Supreme Court, announced her retirement. town of Penn, North Dakota, Maring knew Mary was encouraged by husband David she wanted to be an attorney. She admits and some of her colleagues to submit her it was a bit of an odd choice in that there name to the Governor’s Office. Governor Ed were no lawyers in her family to serve as Schafer, ‘69, HON ‘08, chose her to serve out inspiration. Instead, a family friend who she the two years Levine had left on her term. admired was an attorney and she thought it The catch: Maring had to commit to running was a career in which she could help people for the seat in the 1996 general election. and make a difference. Then came news that a challenger with So she set off for Moorhead State University state-wide name recognition, Agriculture (now Minnesota State University Moorhead) Commissioner Sarah Vogel, would run to earn bachelor’s degrees in Political Science against her. and German with an eye toward attending law school. UND was the logical choice for Maring says those six months seem “like a her Juris Doctorate degree. blur.” She commuted from Fargo every week to hear cases and do committee work with “I really wanted to stay in state, so it just the high court. Nights and weekends were made a lot of sense for me to attend the spent on the campaign trail. University of North Dakota to go to law school. I never regretted that decision and “North Dakota is very grassroots,” says was very happy with my choice.” Maring. “You have to go to parades and county fairs, to shake hands with people Maring met her husband, David, ’74, in law and you have to go door to door and that’s school, and the two would eventually work the only way you can do it. I really felt that, together at the Maring Law Office, which because I was not well known, I had to touch Mary founded in 1991 after serving as a law people. I had to actually meet them face to clerk and then working as an attorney in face.” Fargo-Moorhead. To her admitted surprise, Maring defeated The firm was well-established and growing Vogel in November of 1996 to complete the when, in 1996, Beryl Levine, ‘74, the first two years left of Levine’s 10-year term on the woman to serve on the North Dakota high court. She would earn 10-year terms in

35 Alumni Review | Summer 2018 1998 and 2008 running unopposed. Upon that helped people. For example, Maring was retiring from the court in 2013, she was the instrumental in launching juvenile drug courts longest-serving female justice in the court’s in the state. history. She learned about drug courts while attending North Dakota Supreme Court Chief Justice a national conference. When she returned, Gerald VandeWalle, ’55, ’58, HON ’15, says she chaired a committee that studied the Maring made a lasting impact on the idea for a year before starting pilot courts in judicial system. In an article for the North Grand Forks and Fargo. They eventually spread Dakota Law Review, VandeWalle wrote that across the state. The courts operate with “Justice Maring’s passionate advocacy for judges, prosecutors, defense attorneys, school disadvantaged groups is only overshadowed representatives, and treatment counselors all by her well-reasoned and imposing body of working as a team to intervene with young jurisprudence.” drug offenders. VandeWalle went on to write that Maring’s The juvenile drug courts proved so successful “keen mind” was demonstrated in Hoff v. that adult drug courts were later established in Berg, a 1999 case centered on enforcement the state. of visitation rights by grandparents. The “I would never have been able to do that had case concerned a 1993 state law that said I not had my position on the court and been grandparents must be given visitation rights able to go to the chief justice and say ‘We need to a minor grandchild unless a court found to do this. We need to get this in place so we visitation was not in the best interest of the can help people that are addicts stay out of the child. criminal justice system.’” Maring analysis found the law unconstitutional She may have retired from the court, but and she suggested a more narrowly tailored Maring has not entirely stepped away from approach, which the Legislature later used to work. She serves as a surrogate judge, which amend the law. A year later, the U.S. Supreme means she fills in on the Supreme Court if a Court cited Maring’s work on Hoff in an sitting judge has to recuse. She also runs a appeal involving a Washington state law on mediation firm, Maring Mediation. grandparent visitation. Although still active, Maring now has the VandeWalle, who has served on the North flexibility to do things like visit her two sons, Dakota Supreme Court for 40 years, says who live on opposite coasts, and to have a Maring’s work on Hoff is just one example of little more down time than one is afforded as a her judicial accomplishments which led him North Dakota Supreme Court Justice. /// to consider her “among the finest jurists I have known.” — By Milo Smith Maring says she enjoyed the intellectual aspects of adjudicating cases and was able to realize her childhood dream of a career

36 Alumni Review | Summer 2018 YOUNG ALUMNI RECIPIENT

YOUNG ALUMNI RECIPIENT KAYLA DELZER, ’08, ’14 Kayla (Hoerth) Delzer’s love for teaching has classroom use with other teachers. “He deep roots. knew that if I was given a little push, I’d do something with it,” Kayla said. “I always say that I knew from the first day of Kindergarten that I’d be a Kindergarten And so, Top Dog Teaching was born. First, teacher like my mom,” Kayla, ’08, ’14, said. it was a blog where she shared ideas. Then, Her plans changed slightly when she it expanded to social media. Today, it’s her was studying Elementary Education and identity. “People actually come up to me and Early Childhood at UND. During her first ask if I’m Top Dog Teaching,” Kayla said. day student teaching in a second-grade classroom, she knew it was for her, and she’s With nearly 74,000 Instagram followers, she’s been teaching second and third grade ever a teacher celebrity, and she has the accolades since, most recently in Mapleton, North to back it up: Kayla has been named among Dakota. the Global Hundred Innovative Teachers; a PBS All Star, given to the top 30 teachers Kayla got her first job at Challenger in the country; she sits on the Governor’s Elementary School in Thief River Falls, Innovative Education Task Force; and she was Minnesota. In 2011, when iPads were named Cass County’s 2018 Co-Teacher of the just coming onto the scene in education, Year. Challenger’s technology coordinator encouraged Kayla to share her ideas for She gained notoriety beyond the teaching community in 2015 at TEDx Fargo. Her talk,

37 Alumni Review | Summer 2018 “Reimagining Classrooms: Students as Leaders and Teachers as Learners,” launched a whirlwind of speaking invitations. “The more speaking I do, the more I love it. I see the effects it’s having on classrooms around the world that have adapted the flexible seating model and so many of my ideas,” Kayla said. As time goes on, Kayla finds herself “The more speaking I do, the focusing more on the central theme of her Ted talk: “Relationships First, Everything more I love it. I see the effects Else Second.” it's having on classrooms She gets invited (and goes) to her students’ swim meets, plays with them during gym around the world that have class, and writes every child a note about their good behavior every week. “Kids learn adapted the flexible seating so much better when they really feel like model and so many of my you care about them,” Kayla says. She’s a regular columnist on EdSurge.com, ideas.” recently released FlexED: Flexible Seating KAYLA DELZER '08, '14 for Flexible Learners, co-authored the best- selling book Education Write Now, and co- founded the international Happy Go Teach conference for professional development. “Once I started seeing my ideas in other classrooms, it was enough for me to keep getting up in front of teachers because I knew it was ultimately reaching more kids,” Kayla said. “That’s what Top Dog Teaching is all about: reaching more kids and making education better.” /// — By Alyssa Konickson

38 Alumni Review | Summer 2018 YOUNG ALUMNI RECIPIENT

YOUNG ALUMNI RECIPIENT DARREN MOQUIST, ’00 Imagine overseeing a and apply that knowledge,” said Moquist. team of more than 150 financial professionals Joining UnitedHealthcare in 2005, Moquist and providing direct quickly climbed the ladder of success from a oversight to 10 director in corporate development to vice executives. That is president of employer & individual finance just another day in and, eventually, into the position of CFO that the office for Darren he holds today. Moquist, ’00, chief “What I love about my job is that every day is financial officer for UnitedHealthcare a new and interesting challenge. As a Employer & Individual. member of our senior leadership team, I help As CFO, Moquist manages more than $55 lead business strategy, development and billion in revenue for the Twin Cities based planning. I also focus on developing other healthcare giant, the largest provider of financial leaders in our organization and health benefits to employers and individuals growing my team members to take on new in the nation. roles,” Moquist explained. While the company’s financials are A native of Grand Forks, Moquist has been impressive, Moquist’s position as a top immersed in the healthcare industry all of his executive with the company at the young life. His father, Dale Moquist, ’71, was a family age of 40 is equally admirable. “I have always physician and an inspiration to Darren. “I been a person who sets goals. And when I watched my dad growing up and the set a goal I do everything I can to learn passion he had for being a family doctor. I knew that

39 Alumni Review | Summer 2018 whatever I did, I wanted to make a difference in people’s lives like he has,” Moquist said. Though Moquist didn’t choose exactly the same path as his father, he feels right at home being a leader in the healthcare industry. In his role with UnitedHealthcare, he is dedicated to developing new and innovative ways to improve the health system and enhance health outcomes for more Americans. “I am humbled to work for such an amazing company and credit my undergrad education at the University “I am humbled to work for of North Dakota for providing the foundation,” Moquist said. such an amazing company As an accounting and business administration double major at UND, and credit my undergrad Moquist said he was taught to think education at the University of through problems, take in a wealth of knowledge and better himself; all virtues North Dakota for providing the that serve him well each day. “As I look back on how I have progressed through foundation.” life and my career I think of family. I think DARREN MOQUIST, '00 of UND. And, I think of North Dakota and the hard work ethic that was instilled in me,” he said. Moquist adds that he is extremely honored to receive the Young Alumni Achievement Award from his alma mater and “never would have dreamed of this” as a kid growing up in Grand Forks. “I attribute my success to so many people; my family, mentors at UND, colleagues along the way. They all have played a part in the person I am today. I am grateful.” /// — By Leanna Ihry

40 Alumni Review | Summer 2018 CAMPUS NEWS

Photo by Russell Hons Photography NEWS FROM AROUND CAMPUS WHAT’S NEW T.J. Oshie, ..'08, brought the Stanley Cup to Minnesota in July. Every member of the NHL champion Washington Capitals gets one day with the Cup. Oshie spent part of his day with the Cup in Warroad where he won two Minnesota High School Championships as a high schooler. He also took the trophy to the MAP Hockey training facility in Mendota Heights to take pictures with youth hockey teams (a group picture is featured above). Oshie trains with MAP Hockey in the off-season.

41 Alumni Review | Summer 2018 PRESIDENT MARK KENNEDY DEAR ALUMNI & FRIENDS

Of all the responsibilities assigned to this alma mater. The position, one of the greatest privileges of lasting affinity our being President at the University of North alumni have for the Dakota is the role it allows me to play in our University of North graduation ceremonies. As each student Dakota is truly a crosses the stage, I have the honor of shaking powerful thing. their hand and acknowledging the years of hard work and dedication they’ve committed The bustling to earning their diploma. Commencement is activity involved in the symbolic gesture that UND has fulfilled conferring degrees to these graduates during its most important purpose: conferring our commencement weekends quickly gives degrees upon its graduates that will open way to a few quieter months on our campus, many opportunities for them, their families, but it strikes me that by the time you read and their communities. this many of our students will once again be converging back to UND for the fall semester. Needless to say, each May I have the opportunity to shake many newly graduated With the new academic year quickly hands. This year during our spring approaching, UND has recently welcomed commencement ceremonies, over 2,000 a few new faces to some of our leading students received diplomas, each of them roles. Jed Shivers began his tenure as Vice now moving on to the next chapter of his or President for Finance and Operation in her life as an alumnus of this great University. May. A Wisconsin native, Jed previously If you are receiving this Alumni Review served eleven years as the Associate Dean magazine, it means that you, too, know how of Finance and Administration at the Albert exciting this milestone is for these graduates. Einstein College of Medicine in New York. Alice Brekke, who previously held this role, This edition of the Alumni Review highlights has been phasing into retirement but will the graduates of our 1968 class, many of be leaving UND this fall after nearly forty whom will be coming back this fall for our years at the institution. Alice has been of Homecoming Week. It is a humbling feeling invaluable benefit over her decades at the to know that this University can form a bond University of North Dakota, and I hope you between those who walked across the stage join me in my immense gratitude for all she 50 years ago to receive their own diplomas has done during her impressive tenure. from UND. It is quite incredible to realize that, half a century from now, some of the We have also recently hired Meloney Linder graduates of this spring will likely return to the role of Vice President for University to celebrate a Homecoming Week at their Relations.

42 Alumni Review | Summer 2018 Meloney comes to us having served as the I would like to close with one final reflection Chief Communications Officer and Associate on our recent commencement ceremonies. In Dean for the School of Business at the my address to our graduates, I focused on how University of Wisconsin rapidly the world around them is changing. They are entering their professional years at – Madison. Peter Johnson, who has assumed a time when growing shifts in technology many of the roles of this position over his 30 will require them to constantly reshape their years at UND, has also been in the process approaches to the challenges of today and of a phased retirement that will conclude at tomorrow. the end of this coming academic year. Peter has been an exceptional representative for However, one thing that will remain stable this university throughout his time, and we’re is how they were prepared to adapt to these glad to be able to hold on to him for just a few changes. It is for this reason that our newly more months as he assists with the upcoming crafted mission statement at UND is to provide legislative session and this position’s transition. transformative learning, discovery, and community engagement opportunities for Other new members of the UND family include developing tomorrow's leaders. By fulfilling Amy B. Henley, our next Dean of the College this promise to our students, the University of of Business and Public Administration. Amy North Dakota will be considered the home to comes to UND having previously served as the future’s Leaders in Action. Then, even 50 the executive director of MBA programs at years after they graduate, they too will hold Kennesaw State University in Georgia. We have the same strong affinity for their alma mater as also chosen the next Director for the Center for our alumni do today. Innovation, Amy Whitney, to lead our growing entrepreneurship outreach center. Amy comes Debbie and I would like to extend our warmest to us from Clark University in Massachusetts, wishes to each and every one of you. Thank where she served as the director for their you for making it so easy for us to be UND Innovation and Entrepreneurship Program. Proud.

43 Alumni Review | Summer 2018 CAMPUS NEWS UND ROCKET TEAM Stefan Tomovic (left), Nicholas Sponsel (center) and UND Physics and Astrophysics Professor Tim Young stand next to the rocket used in this year’s NASA Student Launch in Huntsville, Ala. Young’s team, nicknamed “Frozen Fury,” took second place for Best Website at the event. Photo by Connor Murphy/UND Today

THIS IS ROCKET SCIENCE UND student team has a blast at annual NASA event

Stefan Tomovic and Nicholas UND has been a mainstay of department. Sponsel were looking for the event since its inception ways to get involved on nine years ago. “I looked up different campus when physics and projects in physics when I astrophysics professor Tim “I had just read a book about first came here,” Sponsel, Young spoke to their class rocketry,” Tomovic, a senior now a junior in astrophysics, about the UND Rocket Team. electrical engineering major, recalled. “When Dr. Young said of his recruitment. “The came back from Huntsville Young had just returned book detailed ways electrical and talked about the event, it from the team’s annual trip engineers can build rockets, got me interested.” to Huntsville, Alabama, and they’re really cool, so I where NASA hosts schools decided to chase that.” Two years later, they’re from around the nation to leaders of “Frozen Fury” showcase and launch their Sponsel was new to UND and — the nickname of UND’s year-long rocket projects. eager to get involved in the rocket team. During 2018’s

44 Alumni Review | Summer 2018 UND ROCKET TEAM For this year’s challenge, the UND Rocket Team was tasked with creating an autonomous rover. In the basement of UND’s Witmer Hall, they created a testing space for the rover to use during the winter months. Photo by Connor Murphy/UND Today

NASA Student Launch near to work on an autonomous haven’t had much experience Marshall Space Flight Center, rover deployment as their in rocketry, especially on the they took home second place rocket’s haul. upper-amateur scale we’re in Best Website. talking about.” Young, who serves as adviser Off the ground to the team, tries to maintain Using his suite of expertise, a hands-off approach as Young offers insights Every August, NASA sends a much as possible. Everything when necessary; he handbook outlining project the team builds is by its own rarely questions how options for teams. The overall design and construction. team members utilize the objective — to build a fully information. functional rocket — remains “The goal of the project is consistent, but the year-to- for them to come together “Every year there’s a case year challenge is developing as a team and complete where they’ll choose to do accompanying payloads. the goals that are set in the something and I go along project,” Young said. “They with it,” he said. “That’s what This year, Frozen Fury chose

45 Alumni Review | Summer 2018 UND ROCKET TEAM Sponsel looks at the Frozen Fury website with Tomovic over his shoulder. Their graphic design work earned them a runner-up placing against 45 other teams from across the country. Photo by Connor Murphy/UND Today

I want to happen – for them to have a learning “Building a rocket is nice and fun, but doing experience through solving problems.” it properly and following steps, procedures and designing – that’s what you learn,” he said. Though the Huntsville student launch is the “All the paperwork is tedious, but it’s good. I culminating event, teams are scored on every actually kind of enjoyed it.” phase of the project – from how they propose their payload choice to how they evaluate their “What we learned on the leadership side is own rocket’s performance. At these stages of that delegation is a big thing,” Sponsel added. reporting, they present via web conference to “That’s going to be our focus next year. We a panel of NASA engineers. won’t be leads, more advisers, but we want to make sure things are as organized as possible.” Learning the role Organization is key when a group is gaining. When Tomovic found himself as this year’s Young says this year’s group is the largest he’s Team Lead, he realized it was a position seen, with ten going down to Alabama for the without its own handbook. He wasn’t sure how launch. to delegate, and there was more paperwork to deal with in his position. “When you have that many, the dynamics become rather important,” Young said. “This “I’m glad I had Nick and our safety officer, year seemed to be more cohesive as a group Drew Ross, to help me figure things out with and they worked and communicated really leadership,” Tomovic said. “When you have new well together.” /// and younger team members, they don’t quite have the skillset yet. They have the spirit and — Connor Murphy/UND Today Writer passion, so you have to guide them and make sure they can do what they want to do.” He eventually came around to earn satisfaction from the amount of paperwork involved.

46 Alumni Review | Summer 2018 CAMPUS NEWS TIME TRAVELERS Phil Gerla (front) and Carlos Alba (back) in the Sara Park slot canyon. Photo by Sidike Abudureyimu

BACK IN TIME Professor makes discovered the tracks in a trip. He added that they were textbooks come alive with slab of sandstone. “I traveled between two and three feet experiential learning in back millions of years, and it tall and about the size of a felt awesome.” small ostrich. Mojave Desert “I put my thumbs in the Field experience dinosaur footprints,” said A group of UND geology Gerla likes giving students Emma Tschann, a senior in & geological engineering experience in the field. students went retro for environmental geoscience Spring Break this year — as in from Zumbrota, Minnesota. “Seeing the geological pre-Ice Age. “Once we found the first set relationships in their natural of prints, more were easier environment helps us As part of a school sponsored to find. It was great. I loved comprehend the history of expedition to the Mojave it. I’ve loved dinosaurs since the Earth,” Gerla said. “It’s Desert led by Phil Gerla, I was little. Seeing footprints like a jigsaw puzzle. Each the students discovered that aren’t in a museum and little piece is part of the full rare dinosaur tracks from imagining the conditions picture. That’s exciting for the Jurassic times. It was a back then was pretty cool.” me.” highlight of a trip that made textbooks come alive. The tracks were from Gerla gave students Coelurosaurs, an unusual maps and missions for “I felt like I was in a time species of dinosaur from each geologic feature machine,” said Sidike the Jurassic Era, said Gerla, they explored. All seven Abudureyimu, a graduate associate professor of students, mostly geology student in geological geology and geological and geological engineering engineering from Turpan, engineering, who led the majors, researched and western China, who

47 Alumni Review | Summer 2018 shared information on an area they visited. “It was like walking into the pages of a textbook,” said Tschann. “I was familiar with how to calculate strike and dip of formations by reading about it in textbooks, but had no idea of how those formations look in real life. It was worth all the hard work.” “I researched the Hoover Dam and how it was built from an engineering perspective,” said Abudureyimu. “My work combined geology and engineering, and I learned a lot.” Gerla and the students kayaked on Lake Havasu, Arizona, soaked in hot springs, mapped geology, explored carbonatite dikes in the Mescal Mountain Range, sought fossils in the Marble Mountains, hiked the Cima Volcanic Field, climbed the Kelso Sand Dunes and more. “We talked about how sand dunes form,” said Abudureyimu. “With a 500-foot elevation gain, they’re not easy to climb. You take one step forward and slide half a step back.” “And when you jump off the top of a sand dune, you hear a booming sound,” said Tschann. “That’s the sound of sand compacting quickly. They’re so soft you can’t get hurt.” Connecting the dots “The trip connected the dots between the textbook and the field,” said Abudureyimu. “Dr. Gerla did a great job explaining the geological structures. "This was the experience of a lifetime. I’m so grateful to Dr. Gerla for providing it.” /// — Jan Orvik/UND Today writer

48 Alumni Review | Summer 2018 CO-CAPTAINS Cooper Pallasch (left) and Steven Kinney stand in front of one of the Cessna 150s used in competition during SAFECON 2018. They finished as the top two pilots in the nation, respectively. Photo by Connor Murphy TOP GUNS UND Aerospace home to two best student “The team we brought down there was pilots in the nation after national flight/ ready and willing to work their butts off,” safety competition Kinney continued. “Both of us as captains were proud of the team we had. From When Cooper Pallasch and Steven Kinney where we were at the beginning of the led the UND Flying Team to national year, not really knowing what we were competition, the co-captains were hoping doing, I think it was a perfect team for us.” for the best. After last year, they lost years of experience Team effort in departing seniors. Kinney says there were SAFECON, a yearly convention and doubts among the team, and many were competition by the National Intercollegiate worried about how things would go. Flying Association (NIFA), brings aviation schools together to test the mettle of their “We went down there feeling like we top students. This year, the competition had nothing to lose,” he said. “We had a was hosted by Indiana State University mentality of ‘let’s do our best and see what near Terre Haute, Ind. happens.’” Pallasch, who earned the distinction of At SAFECON 2018, UND maintained its Top Pilot in the nation, says their crew reputation as Pallasch and Kinney secured shouldn’t be confused with the flashier the top two individual spots, respectively, UND Aerobatic Team. While aerobatic and aided a second-place finish out of 30 pilots are strictly judged on their airborne competing institutions. The team has now performance, the UND Flying Team faces a finished first or second in 29 of the past 35 comprehensive set of challenges. years.

49 Alumni Review | Summer 2018 FLYING TEAM Lewis Liang (right), professor of aviation and UND Flying Team coach, develops top-tier talent by letting students shine on their own and advising when necessary. With years of coaching and teaching experience, Liang knows the UND Flying Team provides a unique learning opportunity. Photo by Connor Murphy

“They’re doing flips, spins and maneuvers “I don’t think I would be nearly the pilot to a routine,” Kinney added. “Our event is I am if it wasn’t for the team,” Pallasch said. “It’s helped me fine-tune my skills, all college students and we treat it like a it’s given me experiences I wouldn’t have track meet. Each person on the team can had otherwise. I’ve made a network that I compete in certain events, then how you wouldn’t have if not for SAFECON and the perform as an individual goes toward a UND alumni that are now judging staff. The team score.” team has helped me move forward and SAFECON consists of 11 events spread over make great friends along the way.” a week. They range from a complex math “You can come to UND, you can get a test using a slide ruler (called Computer great aviation education and you’re going Accuracy) to landing a Cessna 150 as close to be a good pilot,” Kinney followed. “We to a target line as possible after a short aren’t going to discredit that. But if you flight. Fourteen UND Flying Team members want to be the best, and learn the tricks went to Indiana for the competition. aside from the standard routine, this is an Kinney, who recently graduated, took first opportunity to take your skills to a real- place in the Short Field Landings event. world application.” /// Pallasch didn’t grab a first place, but placed —Connor Murphy/UND Today Writer second in four of his seven events — giving him the points to be number one, overall.

50 Alumni Review | Summer 2018 CAMPUS NEWS DR. MARK O. JENSEN teaches a human anatomy class to high school students at the UND Medical Education Center at the VA Medical Center in Fargo. Photo by Dan Koeck

According to Jensen, as he and his colleagues—including former department chair Dr. David Antonenko—gained more experience teaching the School’s general surgery course, and the market still failed to offer surgeons a useful guide, the idea of pitching a textbook to publishers became not only increasingly plausible, but necessary. “I started this book 15 years ago,” said Jensen, LIKE A who began teaching a surgical anatomy course for the SMHS in 1995. “I started dictating and writing down what we were teaching residents and edited the course SURGEON based on what the residents were telling us Dr. Mark Jensen wrote the worked or didn’t.” book, literally, on teaching Surgical revision surgery to new physicians The result of Jensen’s labor of love is "Surgical Anatomy for Mastery of Open Operations: "You wouldn’t want to get on a commercial A Multimedia Curriculum for Training jet whose pilots hadn’t gone through Surgery Residents." Published by Wolters various training scenarios and been through Kluwer, the textbook is 10 chapters long and simulations. Why would it be any different for contains detailed instructions and advice for surgeons?” performing more than 75 different operations. So asked UND’s Dr. Mark Jensen matter-of- Speaking to the need for such a resource factly in a question that almost answers itself: internationally, Jensen said, is the fact that “Simulation in surgery is coming on strong— Wolters Kluwer is translating the book into it’s expanding rapidly, of course. But really the 30 different languages. “They really looked only high-fidelity simulator for surgery is still for another source like this, but couldn’t the human body.” find one,” the teacher-surgeon added. “To Scanning the market for years to find a dedicate resources like that to this project— textbook that could assist him in teaching they’re anticipating that this will have appeal surgical residents at his clinical practice in internationally as well, so it looks like UND is Fargo, Jensen, a professor of surgery with the going to get on the map here.” UND School of Medicine & Health Sciences And with good reason: this isn’t your average (SMHS) since 1993, eventually just gave up medical student anatomy textbook, Jensen looking—and wrote one himself. admitted.

51 Alumni Review | Summer 2018 It’s a training curriculum for surgery residents Linda B. Lindquist, Kurt D. Lindquist, Denise M. that “fills an important niche in the education Rondeau, Robert P. Sticca and Andrew Terrell. of surgeons in training and in practice,” as Furthermore, several reviewing surgeons listed Associate Executive Director of the American in the book are also SMHS faculty, including, Board of Surgery, Dr. Mark A. Malangoni, put it Drs. Robert J. Bates, Michael S. Bouton, in the book’s foreword, “It is a ‘go to’ reference Jason M. Erpelding, John W. Jones, Jr., Jay for open operations, both common and M. MacGregor, Michael Traynor and Thomas uncommon.” Wambach. Most comprehensive “There are medical schools now with no cadaver-based anatomy—it’s all on a screen,” Assuming a more modest pose, Jensen was Jensen concluded. “For some folks that might concerned only with teaching what he felt be perfectly fine, but we have students needed to be taught. entering surgical residencies who need a “You have to modify your operative strategy much better foundation for their profession. based on what each particular patient needs,” So what we’ve done at UND—and there’s no he explained. “The strategy you use on a other program like this in the United States—is patient’s leg, for example, changes depending build the best surgical anatomy program in the on if the problem in question is a result of country, the most comprehensive. That’s one a tumor or a traumatic event or a vascular thing the taxpayers in North Dakota can be problem. How you address that is all strategy, proud of.” /// and there’s no simulator for that.” — Brian James Schill/UND SMHS The book’s contributing surgeons were all SMHS faculty members: Drs. Cornelius Dyke,

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53 Alumni Review | Summer 2018 MICHAEL STORANDT, a second-year medical student at UND (at mic), went to the Special Olympics USA Games as a coach for North Dakota. A volunteer for the past seven years, Storandt was also selected to lead the Coaches’ Oath during the Opening Ceremony. Photo by Kaia Watkins

LIVING THE OATH UND medical student was bestowed the honor ceremony. “There’s 20,000- delivers Coaches’ Oath at of reciting the Coaches’ 30,000 people staring back Special Olympics opening Oath during the Opening at you, but it was a cool Ceremony. opportunity. ceremony “I feel unbelievably fortunate “It’s great because it Through his work with Special to be able to coach Special represents what we’re doing Olympics North Dakota, Olympics,” Storandt said after in North Dakota. It’s often Michael Storandt would say being introduced by NBA Hall overlooked because we’re that he isn’t volunteering. He’s of Famer Gary Payton. “When a smaller state, but our doing something he loves. I first got involved, I had no programs are phenomenal. Since coaching a youth idea how big of an impact it We have great athletes and basketball team as a would have on my life.” volunteers. People who run junior in high school, the the North Dakota program Storandt shared the stage Moorhead, Minnesota, have given so many years with athletic dignitaries and native and second-year to building the community pop culture fixtures alike. The medical student has spent around athletes, so it’s great ceremony was broadcast live the past seven years working for North Dakota to get that on ABC, and the University with the Special Olympics recognition.” of Washington’s Husky organization and its athletes. Stadium in Seattle was full Despite all of this experience At UND, he’s been a trailblazer of spectators and more than and growth through his in developing competition for 4,000 athletes. passion, Storandt knows the collegiate age group. people who he says were far “It was amazing, and kind In July, at his first trip to more deserving to deliver the of nerve-wracking,” he said the USA Games, Storandt Coaches’ Oath. about briefly leading the

54 Alumni Review | Summer 2018 “I was thrilled to find out I got to go to the “It’s that important to me,” he added. Games, but being told about delivering the oath was something else,” he remarked. “It’s Unified effort humbling. I’ve met people who have done Storandt coaches a Unified Flag Football this for 30 years who deserve the spotlight. team. In Special Olympics, “unified” refers There are so many who have given so much to the team structure. Athletes, those with energy to this program and the athletes.” intellectual disabilities, share the field with partners, people of the same age group ‘Incredible coach’ who don’t have intellectual disabilities. Kathy Meagher, President/CEO of Special Olympics North Dakota, met Storandt when On the flag football team, all four of the he was still an undergraduate student at partners are UND students or recent UND. Now that he’s pursuing a medical graduates from the University. Storandt degree from the School of Medicine & illustrated how unified sports such as Health Sciences, she’s amazed how he finds flag football create a more inclusive the time. environment. “Michael is an incredible volunteer “Having a Special Olympics college coach,” she said. “His youth leadership is club brings college-aged people from remarkable and it’s cool to see. Despite his the community, who have intellectual hectic schedule, he’s developed a college disabilities, to interact with college club and is leading our flag football team at students,” he said. “Athletes go through an the national level.” experience that integrates them into the local campus community.” Meagher also indicated it’s something that runs in the family, as the Storandts show Developing such connections have been up at state competitions to volunteer on a crucial to Storandt’s education, as there’s regular basis. only so much to learn in the classroom. “When I started, my sister said it was “Instructors can’t force you to find these something to try,” Storandt said. “I realized experiences,” he said. “There’s so much to how much I enjoyed it. You fall in love learn at that age when you’re developing with the athletes and the people you work and finding something you’re passionate with. In Grand Forks, the Special Olympics about. You learn how to interact, how to community is tight knit and once you get to work with others – it teaches life lessons know them, you see them everywhere.” outside of class. And you’ll miss it if you don’t go out and seek it.” He says that once he found that, and put the effort in, there was no way he could live When Storandt arrived on the scene, UND’s without it. chapter of Special Olympics College Club

55 Alumni Review | Summer 2018 MICHAEL STORANDT, a second-year medical student at UND, went to the Special Olympics USA Games as a coach for North Dakota. A volunteer for the past seven years, Storandt was also selected to lead the Coaches’ Oath during the Opening Ceremony. Photo by Kaia Watkins

was a fledgling program and the only SO being, and Special Olympics is eye-opening. College Club in North Dakota. Three years People sometimes don’t care enough and take later, it has a presence on almost every North the time to get others what they need. That’s Dakota campus. He coaches flag football and why it’s important for physicians to take that youth basketball, but also plays as a partner in time.” volleyball and soccer. Though he has a lot of time to change his mind Meaningful experience about his career, it’s almost certain Storandt’s When asked how his work with athletes relates work with Special Olympics will continue. He to his path through medical school, Storandt encourages anybody and everybody to come pointed to the awareness it creates. to a practice. “One of the biggest things you learn as a “Make the effort to meet our athletes and physician is that you need to understand get to know them – you’ll just come back,” he said. “It’s the easiest thing to get involved in, and once you’re there, you’ll stay. It’s just that all components that contribute to a patient’s meaningful of an experience.” /// health,” he explained. “You need to understand — Connor Murphy/UND Today Writer the needs of those with intellectual disabilities. There are barriers to their health and well-

56 Alumni Review | Summer 2018 DEAN’S CORNER College of Nursing & Professional Disciplines The College and research that strives to enlighten and of Nursing & improve quality of life in North Dakota. Professional Faculty lead efforts in a number of areas Disciplines that support health and well-being. CNPD’s (CNPD) Professor Thomasine Heitkamp leads the is well- Mountain Plains Addiction Technology positioned Transfer Center which works to improve the to serve capacity and effectiveness of substance use the needs disorder treatment and recovery. Dr. Amir of North Alakaam conducts research to improve Dakota and eating habits for the Grand Forks region the region. and UND’s own international students. Dr. As challenges Andrew Quinn is researching technological increase ways to provide individuals with better in behavioral health, workforce supply, access to reliable mental health treatment. and access to care in rural and tribal Students at all levels are also encouraged communities, we continue to graduate to engage in scholarly work. This year nurses, dietitians and social workers to help CNPD held its second annual Research & meet those challenges. Scholarship Day with over 100 student participants. CNPD utilizes state-of-the-art instructional and simulation technology to proactively As we focus on our mission to prepare future prepare our students for productive careers. leaders, we are grateful for our alumni and We are mindful of changing standards in our friends who support our efforts to serve rural industries and seek to arm our students with communities in North Dakota. Improving the most up-to-date curriculum and degrees access to care begins with well-prepared possible. To advance healthcare quality practitioners. Your support and engagement and meet new requirements for entry to helps us sustain and grow the important advanced practice, several of our advanced work we do here at CNPD. Please feel free practice nursing programs are transitioning to contact me anytime at gayle.roux@und. this fall to doctorate degree programs. edu or 701-777-4555, as I welcome your Nutrition & Dietetics faculty are in the feedback and insight as we move forward process of preparing a master’s curriculum together. as practice standards in the field change. Social Work faculty continue to evolve their on-campus and online offerings to address current health and human services challenges. PS If you’re so inclined, check out our UNDCNPD Facebook page for updates and In addition to preparing students for the happenings at CNPD! future, we continue to engage in scholarship 57 Alumni Review | Summer 2018 IGNITE THE FUTURE IN LOVING MEMORY UND School of Law Professor Julia Ernst, her husband Rich Clement, and their daughter, Cosette, pose for a photo with Class of 2018 Law School students Ashley Bukowski (left) and Kate Drechsel (right). Cosette is holding a plaque recognizing the establishment of the Shuwang Ernst Clement Memorial Scholarship.

TURNING TRAGEDY INTO LEGACY UND School of Law graduating class dedicates gift to professor’s family following heartbreaking death

Every year, the graduating class of the “Trees are great. Benches are great. But we University of North Dakota School of Law wanted to do something that would have gives back to their new alma mater with a lasting impact and be meaningful to the a gift, usually in the form of a bench, tree, school, the students, and our class,” said Kate artwork, or another item to be used by the Drechsel, ’18. future students of UND Law. The Class of 2018, however, wanted to do something Kate and her classmate Ashley Bukowski unique. talked through a way their class could do that and also honor their professor, Julia

58 Alumni Review | Summer 2018 family left Minnesota to travel back to China in late January. “She was very open about the adoption,” Ashley said. “The whole class was so excited for their family and even more excited to meet him over the next year.” That year, Shuwang and Cosette met the Class of 2018 at the UND Homecoming Parade, various Law School events, Ernst, who had tragically lost her 14-year- occasionally in class, and when the family old son, Shuwang, in a drowning accident hosted students at their home for dinners. the previous summer. So, the Class of During that time, they got to know Shuwang, 2018 created the Shuwang Ernst Clement who had a passion for trying new things and Memorial Scholarship endowment, which living life to its fullest. He loved playing ping will be awarded each year to a first-year law pong, golfing, fishing, singing, and much student, with preference to students who more. reflect Shuwang’s compassion for others, and who will enhance diversity within the UND After hearing about Shuwang’s death, the School of Law. Class of 2018 wanted to do something special for Julia and her family. “Professor The life of Shuwang Ernst creates an environment where Julia and her husband, Rich, went to China everyone feels welcome, and her kids are the with their daughter, Cosette, in the summer same way, so welcoming,” Ashley said. of 2015 on a heritage tour to learn more Kathryn Rand, Dean of the Law School, about the history and culture of the country appreciates that Julia teaches her students where Cosette was born. While visiting the lessons inside and outside of the classroom. orphanage where they adopted Cosette, the “Julia is one of our faculty stars. She’s family met Shuwang. “He just pulled at our excellent at building relationships with heart strings,” Julia said. “But it was a race students and colleagues, and she’s an against the clock. When we got home, we extraordinarily generous person,” she said. asked our adoption agency if he was eligible “The class’s idea to create a scholarship was for adoption, and they said yes, but we had really a heartfelt gesture on their part. It’s to adopt him before he aged out on his turning a tragedy into something positive. birthday, February 14 (2016).” That heartfeltness is incredibly special. I hope The papers came through the day before the the scholarship recipients carry that

59 Alumni Review | Summer 2018 throughout the rest of their lives.” Dean Rand A UND legacy was so moved by the students’ thoughtfulness The Class of 2018, UND Law staff and faculty, that she offered to match their contributions the Ernst-Clement family, and Dean Rand’s to the scholarship fund dollar-for-dollar. match of the students’ gifts has raised Ashley and Kate said the Class of 2018 hopes close to $17,000 toward the scholarship scholarship recipients show the same passion endowment. “Our short term goal is to ensure for life that Shuwang did, and they hope the this is endowed to allow it to continue into scholarship reflects how much law students perpetuity, and from there, to continue to help care about their professors. it grow,” Rich Clement said. The minimum amount for an endowed scholarship to begin Cosette hopes that the scholarship will carry payout is $25,000. on her brother's openhearted outlook and reflect how deeply he touched everyone. “We “It’s exciting to see students recognize the want people to know that Shuwang cared commitment of their professors and take a about everyone,” she said. “Even if people 30 tragedy and turn it into a wonderful legacy years from now don’t know the exact meaning here at UND,” said Nick Jensen, Director of of the scholarship, I want them to know they Development for the School of Law. “The class are cared for, like Shuwang was cared for.” and the family wanted it to be forever, and this is the way to do that.” He added that students The family hopes recipients exhibit Shuwang’s and their families can donate for years to come enthusiasm for life. “I would love for students and make a lasting impact on the law school to know his passion for trying new things, his by providing even more scholarships. perseverance through difficult circumstances, and his spirit: to take everything on full force, The Ernst-Clement family is grateful for all the embrace the challenges, and never give up,” support they’ve received through this tough Julia added. “We want students to know that’s time. “We want to thank everyone who has what we hope for them: that they have passion contributed to the scholarship, everyone in and perseverance, to overcome the hard times the law school family, and the community in in life and live life to the fullest.” general,” Julia said. If you’d like to give to the Shuwang Ernst Clement Memorial Scholarship endowment, contact Nick Jensen at 701.777.5486 or visit UNDalumni.org/shuwang. /// — By Lauren Vetter

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Watch a video about Shuwang's endowment on YouTube

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MEET A STUDENT JOHN SANTIAGO Saint Francis, Minnesota Area of Study: Criminal Justice Major and Sociology Minor VIRGINIA DUBOWY, and her husband, Paul, are establishing a $250,000 legacy gift to interest more young women in biology and conservation. DuBowy wants women more involved in the future of conservation in North Dakota. Photo by Virginia DuBowy

John Santiago is one of 455 What is your dream career? Who has believed in you? students at UND who have to balance homework with After I finish at UND, my I have received overwhelming their commitment to being dream career is to get a job support from the faculty at Division I athletes. in the Justice Department UND, my coaches who have as a border patrol agent or helped with not only playing Why UND? another federal agency in our the sport I love, but also criminal justice system. UND maturing me into the person I chose UND because of the has helped me realize this I want to be, and also my atmosphere of the town and dream because of the support beloved family that has been the support we have here as from the faculty of achieving with me since I started my students. Being a student- what YOU want to do and educational career. athlete is a big reason why I guiding with the steps to get chose to call this place home, there. What's next? but as I continued my time here I have come to learn that One more season of FightingPhoto by Sam Melquist Grand Forks is a town that Hawks football and then is inviting and has people graduation, which is on track that62 genuinelyAlumni Review care | Summer for one 2018 for this December. /// another. THANK YOU DONORS PRESIDENT’S The UND Alumni Association & CIRCLE Foundation sincerely thanks all alumni $10,000 - $99,999 and friends who have made gifts and commitments to support students, Wesley A. Argue LEGACY faculty, programs, and places at UND. David & Libby Bakken Thank you for all that you do! CIRCLE Henry H. Booth The Legacy Circle includes The following donors reached a new giving circle in the Eternal Flame Julie & Charles donors who have indicated Society between Feb. 1 and Clairmont-Shide they plan to give to the May 31, 2018. UND Foundation through Bret J. Fossum * indicates deceased their wills. Dr. Robert & Patricia Dr. L. Eugene* & For more information about the Grossman Kathryn Bradfield Eternal Flame Society, visit UNDalumni.org/EternalFlame Dr. Donald & Darlyne* Lyle F. Buchwitz Hariman Lyn J. Burton Mark J. Hefta Julia L. Ernst Hormel Foods Charitable Trust Randy & Laurie Hatzenbuhler THOMAS Dr. William A. & Carolyn CLIFFORD Hunter Thomas & Joanne Heck Gordon & Liz Anne Loretta L. Prather CIRCLE Johnson Robert J. Reinertson $100,000 - $999,999 Michael B. Kalina Greg & Cindy Thrall Bruce R McCaw Family Greg & LeeAnne Kulesa Foundation Marco, Inc. Jerome* & Anne* Dunlevy Susan & Parm Narveson Lisa L. Eriksmoen* Dr. Timothy J. Pennings Todd Gierke & Dr. Jan Darrel G. Sackman Bexell-Gierke Jon & Kristine Strand Dr. William L. Harwood Linda Wolowicz Mary Ellen McKnight Frederick & Beth Wosick Raisbeck Foundation SEI Investments The Summit League

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MA XIMUM IMPACT Alum and his family make education attainable for the technical and medical leaders of tomorrow by giving a $1 million gift in their will

Greg Shega never planned to continue his pursue educational and professional goals. education after high school. “I had no desire Shega later started taking a few classes at to go to college,” Shega said. “I chose to Hibbing Community College until the mine follow in my father’s footsteps and work in permanently closed in 1985. He was offered the mines.” retraining assistance and was able to use that money to complete his engineering degree Shega and his future wife, Amy Weber, at the University of North Dakota. both worked in the iron mines in Hibbing, Minnesota, until she moved to San Diego to

65 Alumni Review | Summer 2018 After graduating from UND in 1987, Shega He hopes their gift helps students obtain accepted a position with General Dynamics an education they or their families didn’t in San Diego. Over the next several years, think was possible. He and Amy established his career with the aerospace and defense the ZESWS STEM and INMED Program company spanned several areas, including Scholarship Endowments with the purpose flight test lead on the Tomahawk Cruise of providing financial support to help Missile team, avionics design and field young Native Americans become the support on the Advanced Cruise Missile technical and medical leaders of tomorrow. program, manufacturing test of General The endowments are named in tribute to Motors air bag controllers, and eventually their son, who has shown how one can be the Engineering Program Manager for the successful given the right opportunities. The Close-In Weapon System (CIWS) program, endowments will benefit students majoring which is the last line of defense for all U.S. in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Navy surface combatants. Today, he leads an Math (STEM); as well as the Indians Into advanced development program. Medicine Program (INMED™), which helps Native American students who aspire to be After sending their son, Zachary, to college, health professionals to meet the needs of Greg and Amy realized there was so much tribal communities. more to the cost of an education than tuition, housing, and books. “We asked ourselves Greg and Amy also hope their gift many times how other families were able to encourages students to enroll at UND and afford it when they may have more than one finish their degree there. “It is obvious that child, a lower income, medical bills, and so we lose too many bright young minds from forth,” Shega shared. Additionally, through the professional fields as a result of them his 31 years in the engineering workforce, being unable to navigate the cost hurdles of Shega says he’s noticed one fairly constant a university education,” Shega said. “We hope theme: a lack of diversity. “Though there has that we, in some small way, help a young been a slow increase in women and people person realize her or his dream of entering of color, the field still lags other professions,” the medical or STEM field.” Shega stated. Robin Turner, Director of Development To battle these issues, Greg and Amy for the College of Engineering and Mines, established a $1 million gift in their will. In worked with the Shegas to establish this their view, the Native American community gift in their will. “This gift is going to have is under-represented in many professions. an incredible impact on students for years “Growing up in northern Minnesota, we saw to come,” Turner shared. “Greg and Amy’s the challenges and biases that many Native generosity is truly inspiring, and giving Americans faced, and it is even more evident through a life estate gift allows them to make down here in Arizona,” Shega shared. the maximum impact they can.” /// — By Lauren Vetter

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Do you remember… in 1961, when Edna Twamley was part of the groundbreaking for Twamley Hall, named for her father, James, one of UND's founders? Edna donated $200,000 to add a fourth floor to Twamley Hall and to install a carillon.

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1960s 1968 1969 1970s Remember when, in Werner Nistler, '68, Howard Randal Remember when, in 1976, 1968, UND launched an has received the EY Woodward, M.D., '69, two UND law students were undergraduate educational Entrepreneur of the '71, Orthopedic Spine elected to the North Dakota program at Grand Forks Air Year 2018 Award in the Surgeon, has retired after House? Michael Unhjem and Force Base? Lifetime Entrepreneur 38 years of practice in Wayne Stenehjem not only shared political ambitions, 1967 category in the Pacific Omaha, Nebraska. Northwest. Nistler is the they shared an apartment as Jim Kent, '67, of well. Crookston was awarded founder and chairman of the 2018 Northwest Touchmark, which builds 1972 Minnesota Star Artist and operates full-service Bruce Heen '72, '80, Lifetime Achievement retirement communities. recently retired after Award by the Northwest 38 years of working Minnesota Arts Council. for six different

67 Alumni Review | Summer 2018 WE HAVE A insurance companies Aggies: Basketball at in accounting and its Best" about state WINNER finance departments, tournament teams from It won’t be long now until the most recently as Vice the Maddock, N.D., debut of the University of North President of Reinsurance school and "Justice was Dakota’s new mascot. On Sept. with Protective Life in Swift: Tales of the Old 22, at the Homecoming football game, the Fighting Hawk Birmingham, Alabama. West," a collection of will come to life as the In addition, Bruce spent true stories of law and mascot takes to the five years teaching high lawlessness in early day field for the first school and coaching North Dakota. Marlan time. baseball and hockey in and his wife of 46 years, Last spring, more Devils Lake, N.D. Nancy, '73, write and than 2,300 UND self-publish genealogical students voted online over a John Weeda, '72, two-day period and made and historical works their choice between has been selected to under the name Hvinden three options that had serve as the director Publications. They live in been designed for consideration. of the North Dakota rural Thompson, N.D. Transmission Authority Associate Dean of Students by the North Dakota 1976 Cassie Gerhardt says she appreciates the Industrial Commission. Jim Smith, '76, director leadership students provided in the development Weeda retired in 2017 as of the North Dakota and the voting process. director of North Dakota Legislative Council, has “Our students’ passion for UND and their desire Plant Operations for retired after 39 years to have a mascot will benefit UND at athletic Great River Energy. with the agency. The competitions and other events,” she said. “I can’t wait to see it!” council is the research 1973 arm for the North Dakota Erik Hanson, UND student body president, said by John Klai, ..'73, was Legislature. allowing students to vote, the University is showing awarded an Honorary that students' opinions matter, and that this is 1978 truly a student-led initiative. “The high amount of Doctorate of Humane participation in a process like this at such a busy time Letters by North Dakota Myrna (Halstenson) of the year for students is something that we’re very State University. Klai Runyan, '78, is retiring excited about,” Hanson said. after 41 years as a co-founded a Las Vegas Originally, a 17-person committee of UND students architecture firm that Registered Nurse at Altru and staff members developed the standards for designed some of the Health System in Grand what comprised a Fighting Hawks mascot. Ohio- city's most iconic hotels Forks, working 35 years based graphic design company Rickabaugh Graphics then delivered three 2-D designs to be voted on by and casinos. as a Surgical Nurse and the students. 6 years as an Employee 1974 Health Nurse. Kyle “Bubba” Schweigert, UND’s head football coach, Gary Hagen, '74, '77, and Athletics Director Bill Chaves both expressed '86, has retired from the 1979 excitement upon the conclusion of the vote. They’re Julie (Waxvik) both ready to see how a mascot can connect with presidency of Mayville the Grand Forks community and beyond. (N.D.) State University. Anderson, '79, '96, Hagen was with MSU for '00, is dean of the “I’m really excited about having a mascot,” Coach Bubba said. “I believe it will be a great addition to the 42 years, the last 12 as College of Nursing game day experience at all of our sporting events president. and Health Sciences at and it will help us brand and market our University.” Winona (Minn.) State Marlan Hvinden, '74, University. recently self-published two books, "Benson

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David Jones, '79, 1981 state's attorney for Grand Cynthia Lindquist, Forks County, is retiring '81, '06, president this fall after a law career of Cankdeska Cikana that has spanned four Community College in decades. He has spent Fort Totten, N.D., has 23 years as a county been named the Tribal prosecutor, including College and University the last three as state's Honoree of the Year by HAWKS ON THE attorney. the American Indian College Fund. Gail (Gebhardt) Kahl, HIGHWAY '79, and her husband, 1982 If you run into Derick Stoulil on the University of Dan Kahl, '79, are Dean Blais, '82, North Dakota campus, you’ll probably find him transitioning their has been honored sporting the latest North Dakota Athletics polo or by USA Hockey with pullover fleece. business to an employee stock ownership a Distinguished The assistant athletics director for marketing plan after 20 years of Achievement Award. Blais fashionably wears his Fighting Hawks fervor on his sleeve – and now on his ride. ownership. The Kahls played for the University own Opportunities of Minnesota, played Stoulil was one of the first in the state to grab a Fighting Hawks-logoed North Dakota license for Positive Growth, a professionally for three plate, imagined by the UND Alumni Association & human services agency in years, and amassed Foundation (AA&F) and distributed by the North 408 NCAA coaching Dakota Department of Transportation (NDDOT). Fishers, Indiana. victories at UND and the “A great way to spread the brand is to have it on Sally (Wold) Smith, University of Nebraska your vehicle and drive it around Grand Forks and the '79, former president and United States, and be able to show off that Fighting Omaha. He also coached Hawks fandom,” Stoulil said. CEO of Buffalo Wild Wings U.S. national teams. He Inc., has joined the board For a $25 fee, North Dakota drivers can order the retired from coaching in plates with either a random string of five numbers or, of directors at Marvin 2017. for a few dollars more, five characters of their choice. Cos., the Warroad, Minn., 1983 What makes this offer even sweeter is the fact that based window and door $15 from every plate order is returned to the AA&F. manufacturer. Dr. Terry Brenner, '83, '85, '89, '99, is “We are always looking for ways to help our alumni Charles Grotte, '80, is feel connected to the University of North Dakota,” the superintendent of said Alumni Association & Foundation CEO DeAnna county highway engineer the Grand Forks School Carlson Zink. “In this case, not only do they get to for Otter Tail County in District. He previously show off their UND pride, but, as the sponsoring organization, the UND Alumni Association & Minnesota. served as the district's Foundation gets a portion of the plate fee to assist Director of Curriculum, us in the work we do – creating opportunities for 1980s students at this great University.” Remember when, in 1986, Instruction, Assessment, both the Eternal Flame and and Professional “That’s a great part of it, too, to be able to know that Development. a part of your fee comes back to the University to the carillon were brought help with scholarships and help students get their back to life? The flame was Lloyd Harsch, '83, is education and degree,” Stoulil said. “Ultimately, that’s saved thanks to a new gas why we’re all here. a Professor of Church line and wick; the carillon “I hope people get excited about these. People spend was replaced after the History and Baptist a lot of time in their cars going from work, to home, to system stopped working Studies, founding soccer practice with their kids, to vacations and all of Director of the Institute that. It just continues to spread that message and get entirely the year before. that logo out there.” for Faith and the Public Square, and chair of

69 Alumni Review | Summer 2018 the Theological and 1986 Historical Studies Division Brig. Gen. Joane of New Orleans Baptist (Brown) Mathews, Theological Seminary. '86, is a deputy adjutant general in the Wisconsin Susan (Hagberg) Army National Guard. Hendricks, '83, is Mathews is the first the dean of the School woman and first Native of Nursing at Indiana American to serve at that University Kokomo. level.

Judy Ross, '83, is the 1988 Assistant director of Peter Beal, '88, has Aviation for Mineta San joined the scientific Jose International Airport advisory board of ProQR, in San Jose, Calif. a company dedicated 1985 to changing lives A REUNION OF John Bjornson, '85, through the creation '88, is the director of the of transformative North Dakota Legislative RNA medicines for CAPTAINS Council. Bjornson worked the treatment of rare Three 1964 UND graduates held a mini for the Legislative Council genetic diseases. Beal reunion on board the USNS City of Bismarck for 30 years before taking is a chemistry professor at the US Navy Joint Expeditionary Base Little over as director this at the University of Creek, Virginia, in April. Pictured left to right California, Davis. are Craig Vanderhoef, Bob Wefald, and Pete summer. Rice. All three are retired U.S. Navy Captains. Sarah Hellekson, Jamie Kuntz, '85, has Vanderhoef was a line officer serving with been awarded the C.L. '88, '91, is the city riverine patrol gunboats in Vietnam in 1968- "Bud" Linfoot Service administrator for the city 1969 on special operations as an intelligence Award by the Grand of Jamestown, N.D. liaison and ops planner. After six years as a Forks Builders & Traders line officer, he completed law school and Peter Kilbride, '88, served the rest of his 26 years in the Navy as Exchange. Kuntz is an is superintendent of an officer with the Judge Advocate General. accountant with Brady Sheridan County School Vanderhoef lives in Afton, Virginia. Martz & Associates in District #1 in Ranchester, Grand Forks. He served Wefald served on board the guided missile Wyo. destroyer USS Lynde McCormick as the as president of Builders & gunnery officer off the coast of Vietnam in Traders in 2015 and has Holly Mayer-Taft, '88, 1966. He served 27 years on active duty and been a longtime member has received the North in the Navy Reserve. He was North Dakota of organization. Dakota Department of Attorney General for one term from 1981- Health Association's 1984, completing his legal career as a State Ann (Melvey) McConn, Outstanding Service District Court Judge from 1999-2010. Wefald '85, Executive Vice Award. Mayer-Taft is a lives in Bismarck. President and Chief public health nurse with Rice served as a Naval Flight Officer with Business Officer with Indian Health Services in an A-6 Attack Squadron flying combat Alerus in Fargo, has been Parshall, N.D. missions in Vietnam from 1970-1971. He later named one of the Top commanded an A-6 squadron on board the 25 Women in Business USS Kitty Hawk. After 27 years of active duty, by Prairie Business he retired in 1991. magazine.

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1989 one of the Top 25 1992 certified clinical nurse Peder Gjovik, '89, Women in Business Colleen Swank, '92, specialist in Psychiatry associate professor and by Prairie Business '97, is the vice president and Mental Health with chair of the Department magazine. of clinics for Sanford Trinity Community of Technology at Health of Northern Clinic-Western Dakota in Valley City (N.D.) State 1990s Minnesota. Williston, N.D. University, has been Remember when, in 1995, UND alumnus Tom Amberry, named the Association Mike Thorson, 1994 ..'46, was in the Guinness '92, has received a James Haussler, for Career and Technical Book of World Records for Education's Region V special achievement '94, former Activities making 2,750 free throws in award from the North Director at Bismarck Teacher/Educator of the 12 hours? Year. Dakota Associated Public Schools, 1991 Press Sportscasters has been named a Karen (Dean) Daniel Dunn, '91, has and Sportswriters recipient of the North Thingelstad, '89, been elected into the Association. Thorson Dakota High School Vice President and American Board of Trial was the longtime track Activities Association Chief Financial Officer Advocates. Dunn is an and cross country coach Distinguished Service with Minnkota Power attorney with Maring at the University of Mary Award. Cooperative in Grand in Bismarck. His men's Williams Law Office in Paul Loraas, '94, Forks, has been named Fargo. and women's track and cross country teams has been named a won 47 conference 2018 Minnesota Super championships and Lawyer. Only 5% of went on to four national Minnesota lawyers are runner-up finishes. awarded the honor each year. Loraas is an Julie Zikmund, '92, is attorney with Fryberger, a member of the North Buchanan, Smith & Dakota State Board of Frederick, P.A. in Duluth. Agricultural Research and Education. Zikmund 1996 Josh Morton, '96 is a partner with her , is husband and two sons the athletic director at on their Walsh County Augustana University in farm near Pisek and the Sioux Falls, S.D. program manager of Craig Smith, '96, is the CLASS OF the Extended Learning head men's basketball Nutrition Certificates coach at Utah State. Program at UND. ’66 REUNION 1997 1993 The UND Law School Class of 1966 held a reunion in Mesa, Sheri (Kleinsasser) Arizona, in March, the 15th time the class has gotten Paul Cook, '93, is a Stockmoe, '97, '99, is together over the years. mortgage loan officer/ Marketing Director for business development Bank Forward in Fargo. The group made preliminary plans for the next reunion to specialist with Capital take place at Couer d’ Alene, Idaho, in late summer of 2019. Credit Union's Fargo 1998 Photo from the left, front: Wayne Solberg, Richard Forest, branch. Eric Hilber, '98, is John Dahl, Gerry Galloway and Fred Gerszewski. Back Row: Director for Supported Sid Overton, Chuck Orvik, Tim Keating, Jack Sherman, Mike Debra Lukenbill, Living Services with Ward and Gary Maddock. '93, '00, is a board Creative Care for

71 Alumni Review | Summer 2018 Reaching Independence, Jannelle (Steger) Jaramie Schoepp, of Hartford (Conn.) a Moorhead, Minn., Combs, '99, is the city '00, is Vice President Hospital's 2017 nonprofit agency whose attorney for Bismarck, & Business Banking Nightingale Award for mission is to enhance N.D. Loan Officer for Excellence in Nursing. and enrich the lives of BlackRidgeBANK in C.J. works as a Certified people with disabilities. 2000s Fargo. Clinical Transplant Remember when, in 2005, Coordinator. 1999 the men's and women's Chris Seamrau, '00, Josh Astrup, '99, is a basketball teams began is the general manager 2002 vice president/senior playing in the Betty for the Chesapeake Kevin Buettner, '02, portfolio manager at Bell Engelstad Sioux Center? Energy Arena and Cox '04, '07, '13, will receive Bank in Fargo. 2000 Convention Center in the Program Director Betsy Bannier, '00, Oklahoma City, Okla. of the Year Award Josh Christianson, during the American '99, is the executive is a certified Solar 2001 System Ambassador Association of Nurse director of university Amanda (Hvidsten) Anesthetists Annual advancement at the volunteer. The program Godfread, '01, is Make- is coordinated by Congress in September. Bemidji (Minn.) State A-Wish North Dakota's Buettner is director University Foundation. NASA's Jet Propulsion first regional director Laboratory. Bannier is of the UND nurse Previously, Christianson located in Bismarck- anesthesia program and served as director an associate professor Mandan. of Chemistry at Lake works as a CRNA at Altru of development for Health System. the UND Aerospace Region State College in C.J. Zenzick III, Foundation. Devils Lake, N.D. '01, was a recipient

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Heidi Herold, '02, is a 2003 with FlintGroup, a recently had a chapter family practice doctor Amanda (Seeley) communication and published in an e-book at Heritage Health in Boyeff, '03, '04, has marketing agency in available through Kellogg, Idaho. been named Fargo Fargo. the Society for the Public School's 2018 Teaching of Psychology. Joel Larson, '02, '05, is Teacher of the Year. Elizabeth Reiten, Christopherson wrote deputy general counsel Boyeff is a special '03, is a PRN nurse the chapter "Going and director of legal and education teacher at practitioner with Mobile in the College privacy for Altru Health Lincoln Elementary Jacobson Memorial Classroom" for an System in Grand Forks. School. Hospital Care Center in e-book on "The Use of Elgin, N.D. Technology in Teaching Heather (Ness) Rye, Lisa (Christensen) and Learning." '02, has joined the board Feldner, '03, is a 2004 of directors of Creative principal consultant with Kim (Rowekamp) Laura (Berg) Christopherson, '04, Care for Reaching Olson Effertz Lobbying & Kroetsch, '04, is a '07 Independence in Consulting in Bismarck, , associate professor medical director in Moorhead, Minn. Rye is a N.D. and educational Behavioral Health at Vice President of Human technologist at Blue Cross Blue Shield of Kris Kerzman, '03, is Resources at Gate City Morningside College North Dakota in Fargo. Bank in Fargo. social media specialist in Sioux City, Iowa,

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73 Alumni Review | Summer 2018 Mary Anne (Engstrom) Asset Management prior medicine. Ranum Andy Lerud, '09, is Vice Marsh, '04, has retired to retiring in 2001. practices at West River President/Private Banking after 30 years with the Health Services in Officer with Bell Bank in Jennifer (Westman) Nursing Department at Hettinger, N.D. Fargo. Dickinson (N.D.) State Johnson, '06, is a Realtor University. In addition with Park Co. Realtors in Aaron Siegle, '08, is Brent Olson, '09, is an to teaching, Marsh was Fargo. Johnson is also a president of Eagle Valley attorney with Maki & instrumental in founding social studies teacher and Bank, a Twin Cities bank Overom in Duluth, Minn. a swimming and diving that focuses on businesses the department's Jay Schroeder, '09, is exchange program with coach at Fargo Davies and entrepreneurs. High School. a commercial loan officer Russia. Irminne (Gelderloos) with United Valley Bank in 2005 2007 Van Dyken, '08, is a Grand Forks. Stephen Binstock, '07, surgeon at the Kaiser Chad Christensen, '05, 2010s has been named the head has been named Oregon Permanente Wailuku coach for the Fargo North- Law Enforcement Officer Medical Office in Maui, Remember when, during the South high school girl's of the Year by the Oregon Hawaii. 2011 Potato Bowl Parade, hockey team. Christensen American Legion. Binstock UND Staff Senate members is a detective with the 2009 has been a science Alex Craigmile, '09, is collected donations for teacher at Fargo North Redmond, Ore., Police Minot, N.D., flood victims? Department. the chief financial officer since 2010. He has also for Innovative Energy been the head girls golf Brian Mickelson, '07, is Alliance Cooperative in coach at North since 2013 mining market manager Mandan, N.D. 2010 David Tuan, '10, and has assisted with the at TKDA, an employee- has Haylee Cripe, '09, '12 baseball and boy's golf owned provider of , been appointed to the programs. engineering, architecture an attorney and vice Western Dakota Energy president with Mackoff Association's executive Tiffany (Hunter) and planning services in Duluth, Minn. Kellogg Law Firm in committee. Tuan is the Ford, '05, associate Dickinson, N.D., has been city administrator for state director, North 2008 named one of the Top Williston, N.D. Dakota Small Business Ryan Clauson, '08, is a 25 Women in Business Development Centers, has family medicine doctor by Prairie Business 2011 Derrick LaPoint, '11, been named one of the with MidDakota Clinic magazine. Top 25 Women in Business Gateway Mall in Bismarck, '15, is the President/CEO by Prairie Business N.D. Robin David, '09, of Downtown Moorhead, magazine. has been named a Inc., a non-profit business Master Sgt. Kurt Bush Fellow for 2018. advocacy group. Rod Windjue, '05, has Lilley, '08, was named The Bush Fellowship Abby (Rueter) Legatt, joined Exit Lakes Realty Outstanding Senior provides Fellows with '11 Premier in Brainerd, Minn., Noncommissioned Officer up to $100,000 over 12 , is an assistant as a Buyers Agent with of the Year by the North to 24 months to pursue relationship manager for The Chad Schwendeman Dakota Air National learning experiences U.S. Bank in St. Cloud, Real Estate Group. Guard. Lilley is an analyst that help them develop Minn. 2006 for the National Guard's leadership skills and Jacob Nelson, '11, is Landon Feil, '06, is a counter drug program. attributes. David is the the head wrestling coach business banking officer/ Alissa (Farol) Olson, founder and president at Austin (Minn.) High vice president with '08, is an Assistant of the Global Friends School. He also teaches Starion Bank in Mandan, City Attorney and City Initiative, a nonprofit Health. N.D. organization that helps Prosecutor for the City of Jason Reigstad, '11, Fargo. new immigrants acclimate Alva (Bart) Holaday, to Grand Forks. vice president of Special HON '06, retired from the Dr. Joshua Ranum, Projects at Reigstad board of directors of MDU '08, has been elected a Adam Defoe, '09, is an Engineers, Inc., in St. Paul, Resources Group, Inc. Fellow of the American interventional radiologist was selected as one of the in May after serving 10 College of Physicians. The with Essentia Health-32nd top newsmakers of 2017 years. He led the Private distinction recognizes Avenue Clinic in Fargo. by Engineering News- Markets Group of UBS achievements in internal Record.

74 Alumni Review | Summer 2018 Brandon Solberg, '11, Anne Gillie, '12, is a Sam Jelleberg, '14, Marina Galstad, '16, has been appointed solution analyst with '17, is an Assistant Vice has joined Bank Forward superintendent of the Discovery Benefits in President with Gate City in Fargo as an audit/loan North Dakota Highway Fargo. Bank in Fargo. operations specialist. Patrol. Solberg has spent 22 years in law Jeff Pape, '12, '13, is a Emily Ptacek, '14, is the Nicholas Nelson, '16, enforcement. registered engineer with community development has opened his own law TKDA, an engineering, director for Oakes (N.D.) firm, Southern Valley Travis Waswick, '11, architecture and planning Enhancement, Inc. and Legal Services PLLC in '15, was named Medical services company in Oakes Area Chamber of Wahpeton, N.D. Director of the Year by the Duluth, Minn. Commerce. 2017 North Dakota Emergency 2013 Brooke Guttormson, Medical Services Todd Wahlund, '14, is Jill Andera, '13, is an chief financial officer for '17, has been Association. Waswick is assistant Controller with commissioned as a the Medical Director for Otter Tail Power Company Sterling Management, LLC in Fergus Falls, Minn. Second Lieutenant in the West Traill Ambulance in Fargo. U.S. Army. Guttormson Service in Mayville. He is a 2015 had served in the Army family medicine doctor at Ethan Hodnefield, Tyler Newman, '15, National Guard for four Sanford Medical-Mayville. '13, has achieved the is a research engineer years. professional designation with UND's Energy and Ben Williams, '11, has of chartered retirement Mitch Hersch, '17, is an joined Kennelly Business Environmental Research planning counselor Center. audit associate with Eide Law of Fargo as an through the College Bailly LLP in Bismarck, N.D. attorney. Ben focuses his of Financial Planning. Amy Rassier, '15, is practice on commercial Hodnefield is a financial an enrollment services Christine Job, '17, is litigation, representing a advisor with TruStone associate with Williston an assistant principal variety of both business Wealth Management in (N.D.) State College. at Lincoln Elementary and individual clients. School in Bismarck, N.D. Grand Forks. 2016 Mike Davies, '16, Agatha Ottem, '17 2012 2014 is , Ryan Coye, '12, is Haley Hand, '14, is an a budget analyst with is a certified physician Vice President of Retail implementation project UND's Energy and Assistant with the urology Banking with Gate City manager with Discovery Environmental Research team at Altru Clinic in Bank in Grand Forks. Benefits in Fargo. Center. Devils Lake, N.D. ///

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76 Alumni Review | Summer 2018 1 ADDITIONS & CELEBRATIONS If you would like your addition or celebration to be included in the next Alumni Review, send a high resolution photo to [email protected]. We look forward to helping you celebrate! Additions Celebrations 1. Taylor, ’07, and Sarah 5. Brea Wike, ’14, and (Helseth) Williams, ’09, Michael Gilchrist, ’13, ’18, are the proud parents of Tess were married on May 19, 2018, Elizabeth, born April 27, 2018. in Bismarck, North Dakota. The Williams family lives in Sixteen of the 19 people in Fargo. their wedding party were UND alumni. Pictured back row L-R: 2. Anders Halverson was born on Adam Swigost, ’14, ’18, Jack May 10, 2018, to Katie (Olson) Palmiscno (current UND Halverson, ’15, and Sean student), Mark Hovland, Halverson, ’15. The family lives ’13, ’18, Austin Gunderson, in Minneapolis. ’13, Max Otto, ’18, Nathan 2 Jackson, ’13, and Seth 3. Drew Parsley, ’04, and Kalin, ’18. Front row L-R: Carmen (Norman) Parsley Alexandra Podoll-Claflin, ’02, ’10, welcomed Brandt ’14, Brookelle Christman, Alex Thomas Parsley on February Peterson, ’13, Brit Lindgren, 22, 2018. The Parsley family, ’13, Bailey Wike, ’15, Brea including big brother, Nixon, (Wike) Gilchrist, ’14, Michael lives in Warroad, Minnesota. Gilchrist, ’13, ’18, Thomas 4. Stephanie (Sellers) Gilchrist, ’17, Shane Hersch, Hoffman, ’08, and Matthew ’13, ’15, Matt Chuppe, Brett Hoffman along with big brother Wike, and Adam Biwer, ’13. Carter welcomed Isaiah Thor 6. Brooke Pearce, ’14, and on December 7, 2017. The Damon Andrews, ’14, were Hoffmans live in Emerado, North married on September 30, 2017, Dakota. in West Concord, Minnesota. Pictured L-R: Jake Bucher, Julie Mordhorst, Travis Greenwaldt, Karissa Peterson, ’14, Garrison Goodman, ’12, ’14, Julie Morrison, ’16, Blair Townsend, ’14, Brittany Reineke, ’17, Caleb Rissman, Damon Andrews, ’14, Brooke (Pearce) Andrews, ’14, Vanessa (Ness) Pearce, ’82, and Jared Seibel, ’13. ///

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78 Alumni Review | Summer 2018 IN MEMORIAM It is with great honor we dedicate these pages to alumni and friends of the University of North Dakota who have recently passed away. These members of the alumni family helped ignite the spirit of UND, paving the way for a bright future.

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Marjorie (Seebart) Mauland, '48, Janis (Hansen) Hausmann, ..'52, M. James Gibbs, '58, Kelowna, BC 1930s Grand Forks Grand Forks Canada Helen (Hulick) Besse, '39, Plano, Texas Barbara (Smith) McDowell, '48, Rachel (Rundle) Hoovestol, '52, John Gilbert, DDS, ..'58, Diablo, Zionsville, Ind. Duluth, Ga. Calif. Grace (Sands) Meyer, '39, Fort Collins, Colo. Glenn Pederson, '48, Minneapolis Marjorie (McLean) Kruger, '52, Dr. Gerald Hamerlik, '58, '63, Bellevue, Wash. Grand Forks Lester Vigness, ..'48, Viking, Minn. Fredrick Peterson, ..'52, Grand Don Hawthorne, '58, Gulfport, Miss. 1940s Forks Irving Amundson, ..'40, Rapid City, Paul Beithon, MD, '49, Marco Leonard Kraft, '58, S.D. Island, Fla. Raymond Merry, '53, Minneapolis Tucson, Ariz. Meredith (Sayer) Wedberg, ..'40, Harold Benson, '49, Shirley Drake Naismith, '53, '62, Patricia (Maxson) Morell, ..'58, Hunter, N.D. Albany, Ore. Northwood, N.D. Lakota, N.D. Jeanne (LaFleur) Glasscock, ..'42, Robert Freise, ..'49, Robert Sande, '53, Rochester, Minn. Gerald Olson, '58, Bellingham, Wash. Sun City West, Ariz. Miles City, Mont. Gerald Glaser, '54, '56, Bismarck Warren Harpster, '42, Columbus, Sybl (Smith) Gullickson, ..'49, James Ridley, '58, Ohio Mesa, Ariz. Richard Korfhage, '54, Prescott, Edina, Minn. Wis. John Haugland, '42, Donald Nelson, '49, Palm Springs, John Elsaas, '59, Devils Lake, N.D. Calif. Merle Bunde, '55, Houston Buckley, Wash. R. William Hill, ..'42, Dorothy (Bateman) Sperling- Karen (Simon) Herlihy,.'55, Tucson, Allyn Fagerholt, ..'59, Fargo Grand Forks Quaal, '49, Ariz. Fergus Falls, Minn. Chester Fowler, Jr, '59, Burnsville, Mayfield (Johnson) Blair, ..'43, Dr. Thomas P Serene, ..'55, Tucson, Minn. Marco Island, Fla. Ariz. 1950s Lincoln Klabo, '59, Locust Grove, Va. Darlyne (Sands) Magnuson, '43, Fred Stewart, '55, Excelsior, Minn. Joyce (Henley) Greenwood, ..'50, Grand Forks Dr. John Lynch, '59, Winston Salem, Dickinson, N.D. N.C. Donald Skjei, MD, '43, '44, Laguna Neland Haavig, '56, Walhalla, N.D. Hills, Calif. Orville Johnson, '50, Valjean (Birkemeyer) McCarty, Naples, Fla. Russell Nelson, '56, ..'59, Keizer, Ore. Dr. George Ulseth, '43, '48, '54, Ventura, Calif. Fargo Norton Saude, '50, Champlin, Minn. Gary Muralt, '59, Barbara (Hammerud) Sornsin, Missoula, Mont. Doris (Dominick) Wenino, ..'43, Beatrice (Grabau) Bale, '51, '56, Fargo Fergus Falls, Minn. Mandan, N.D. Gary Pladson, ..'59, Ronald Geatz, '57, Grand Forks Oranda (Amundrud) Wilson,..'43, John Blahna, '51, Grand Forks Cordova, Tenn. Ripon, Wis. Robert Russell, ..'59, Joyce (Helgeson) Grumbo, '57, Grand Forks Marjorie (Bagne) Einerson, '44, Shirley (Henderson) Bostrom, Lidgerwood, N.D. Omaha, Neb. ..'51, Grand Forks Grace (Mahlum) Sarosi, '59, Saint Rebecca (Moore) Gugliotta, ..'57, Paul, Minn. Madeline (Cooley) Sutherland, Patrick Murphy, '51, Brox, N.Y. ..'45, Las Vegas, Nev. John ornsin, '59, Fargo Austin, Texas Gwenith (Langlie) Hulsey, '57, Mary Ann (Phelps) O'Callaghan, Hazel Green, Ala. David Torkelson, '59, '64, Fargo Mary Ellen Barber Vaughan, '45, '51, Vancouver, Wash. Portland, Ore. David Vaaler, 57, James Winter, '59, Steamboat Grand Forks Springs, Colo. Elizabeth (Hegge) Worden, '45, Joyce (Lester) Pond, '51, '70, Albany, N.Y. Bemidji, Minn. Adolf Walser, MD, '57, '61, Rochester, Minn. Marion (Jasper) Hyde, '47, Boise, Phyllis (Kjerstad) Power, '51, 1960s Grand Forks Idaho Mary (Burke) Anderson, '60, Oro James Bower, '58, '63, Minot, N.D. Valley, Ariz. Eileen (O'Hara) McMullen, ..'47, Dr. Owen Webster, '51, HON '86, Glen Mills, Pa. Mayville, N.D. Judith (Costello) Erlandson, '58, Carl Bloomquist, '60, Sioux Falls, S.D. Devils Lake, N.D. Harold Osborne, ..'47, Jamestown, Franklin Bavendick, '52, Bismarck N.D. James Fish, '58, John Butterfield, ..'60, Hettinger, Elmer Eid, '52, Greenacres, Wash. Grand Forks N.D.

79 Alumni Review | Summer 2018 Robert Hadlich Jr., '60, Hastings, John Wood, '64, Lois (Hart) McDougall, '70, Rolla, Lorie (Hilliard) Connor, '77, Minn. Las Vegas, Nev. N.D. Glendive, Mont. Richard Hageman, '60, Dean Beckstead, '65, Steven Nordwall, ..'70, Mitchell, S.D. Lee ess, '78, Grand Forks Cold Spring, Minn. Placida, Fla. Constance Weimer, '70, Tualatin, Isabelle Bork, ..'79, Oakes, N.D. Arland Headland, .'60, E. Jerome Hanson Jr., MD, '65, Ore. Desert Aire, Wash. '67, Leawood, Kan. Diane Hellie, '79, Gary Allard, '71, '78, Rochester, Minn. James Kertz, '60, Fargo Gordon Heller, MD, '65, '67, Beulah, N.D. Kremmling, Colo. Warren LeClerc, ..'79, Kenneth Norlin, .'60, Bruce Carlisle, MD, '71, '74, '76, Grand Forks Grand Forks Richard Pett, '65, Edina, Minn. Fargo Lavina Lemieux, ..'79, Rev. F. Allen Palm, '60, Springfield, Linda (Johannesson) Wehrman, Delby Hager, '71, Devils Lake, N.D. Mo. ..'65, Donnybrook, N.D. Cass Lake, Minn. Constance (Bleth) McCarty, ..'79, Raymond Wadsworth, ..'60, Great Vern Witherill, '65, James Knecht, '71, Grafton, N.D. Falls, Mont. Grand Rapids, Minn. Grand Forks Raymond Podell, '79, James Bohn, '61, Wichita, Kan. Dr. Joseph Crawford, '66, '68, '72, Carl McKay, '71, '84, Grand Forks Duluth, Minn. New Rockford, N.D. Clifford Grosz, '61, '64, '65, Harvey, Crystal (Hindemith) Roy, '79, '81, N.D. James Fudge, ..'66, San Diego Stephen Thorson, '71, Grand Forks Palm Springs, Calif. Arlene (Tangness) Kowaliski, '61, Betty Heldstab, ..'66, Crookston, Michelle Williams, '79, Scottsdale, Payson, Ariz. Minn. Robert Walter, '71, Ariz. Santa Cruz, Calif. Nancelyn (Wirth) Ross, '61, L. Alan Person, '66, Bismarck Winnipeg, MB Canada David Koland, '72, Dr. Robert Sauter, '66, Carrington, N.D. 1980s James Ruble, '61, '64, Minneapolis Peoria, Ariz. Timothy Fogarty, '81, David Scarff, '72, Bismarck Bayfield, Colo. Dennis Bondy, ..'62, Eddie Stevens III, '66, Thief River Falls, Minn. Omaha, Neb. Ralph Waterman Jr., '72, Grand Loren Solem, ..'81, Fargo Forks R. Gene Busch, '62, '75, Fertile, Ronald Brooks, '67, Jacksonville, Meralee Giese, ..'82, Grand Forks Minn. Fla. E. Thomas Conmy III, '73, Fargo Vivian (Buchl) Krech, '82, Karen Olson, '62, Minot, N.D. David Macheel, '67, Howard Levi, ..'73, Saint John, N.D. Chelan, Wash. Winnipeg, MB Canada Laura Jane (Hugelen) Paulson, Carolyn (Galloway) Monson, ..'82, ..'62, Grand Forks Kirk Porter, '67, Greeley, Colo. Erik Lips, '73, Bismarck Rochester, Minn. Wayne Anderson, ..'63, Michael Wollan, '67, Donald Luecke, MD, '73, Rockville, Richard Bradsteen Sr., '83, Grand Anoka, Minn. Fergus Falls, Minn. Md. Forks William Aslakson, ..'63, Robert Hieb, '68, Michael Montgomery, '73, Fargo Gregory Kaiser, ..'83, New Rockford, N.D. Midland, Mich. East Grand Forks, Minn. Duane Robey, '73, Frederick Ballard, '63, Virginia Larsen, '68, Ogden, Utah John Rolfstad, '83, Seattle Tulsa, Okla. Austin, Minn. Lawrence Damico, ..'84, Afton, Paul Bebow, '63, Donald Linnertz, '68, Sister Yvonne Schafer, '73, Minn. Prairie Du Chien, Wis. Eden Prairie, Minn. Crookston, Minn. Julie (Dondoneau) Mischel, '84, Mary Ellen (Koppang) Garlick, Beulah (Klemenhagen) Aamot, Bismarck ..'63, Fargo Mary Mousel, '68, Bismarck ..'74, Sergeant Bluff, Iowa Douglas Ault, '86, Waverly, Minn. Dr. John Hanson, '63, '66, Marvin Paggen, '68, Dean Anderson, '74, Jamestown, Red Wing, Minn. Lake Charles, La. N.D. Nadine Sukut Bloomquist, '86, Williston, N.D. Dr. Eugene Kasper, '63, Topeka, Keith Schmidt, '68, Ashland, Wis. LaVada (Schipper) Hanson, '74, Kan. Detroit Lakes, Minn. Dr. Calvin Gruver, '86, Adele (Ferguson) Gorder, '69, Two Harbors, Minn. Diane C Paulson, (Erickson) '63, Bismarck H. Elaine (Fox) Incognito, '74, Eagle, Idaho Halliday, N.D. Muriel Meichsner, '86, Donald Page Jr., '69, Sauk Rapids, Minn. M Jeanne Erickson, (Herman) '64, East Wenatchee, Wash. Phillip Johnston, '74, Bemidji, Minn. Forest River, N.D. Becky (Best) Field, '88, Maj. Robert Skaar (RET), '69, Minot, N.D. Maj. William Hendren, '64, '65, Alamogordo, N.M. Delwin Petrick, '74, Elgin, N.D. Ocean Springs, Miss. W. Robert Walker, '88, Dr. Katherine (Dodd) Wright, '69, Patricia (Moran) Klokstad, '75, Yuma, Ariz. Earl Korynta, '64, '72, '75, Grand Forks '90, Grand Forks Anchorage, Alaska Phyllis (Chally) Manley, '89, Dr. Jon Pigage, '75, '80, Peyton, Independence, Mo. Dr. Allen Nichols, '64, '74, '77, Colo. Saint Augustine, Fla. 1970s Lorraine (Scott) Abel, '70, '85, Ellen (Neset) Pristo, '75, Scottsdale, M. Duane Olson, ..'64, Mayville, Roosevelt, Minn. Ariz. 1990s N.D. Miles Allard, '91, Fort Yates, N.D. Maj. Jesse Greer, '70, Donna Kirschenmann, '76, Clinton Prischmann, '64, Austin, Texas Madison, Wis. Shirley Lawonn Jahnke, '91, Grand East Moline, Ill. Forks Ralph Gullickson, '70, Benedict, Barry Nass, '76, Beaver, Ohio Nancy (Steele) Rekow, '64, N.D. Kenneth Eisbrener, '92, Minneapolis Bradley Norgart, '76, Minneapolis Dr. Howard Llewellyn, '70, Cotuit, Drayton, N.D. Dr. Gary Wall, ..'64, Mass. Bryce Luthens, '92, Rio Rico, Ariz. Ronald Wagner, MD, '76, '78, Shakopee, Minn. Dr.Mike Madison, '70, Lakeland, Fla. Bismarck

80 Alumni Review | Summer 2018 Gloria Serna, '92, Grand Forks Art Grove, Grand Forks Dr. Janet Veit, '92, La Crescent, Minn. Marion (O'Connell) Hahn, Grand Forks Richard Martin, '94, Grand Forks Mogens Henriksen, W. Daniel Slattery, '94, Victoria, Minn. Charlotte, N.C. Gloria David Franz, '95, Fargo Eunice Hill, Spring Hill, Kan. Thomas Youngerman, '95, Fargo Elenor (Rafferty) Johnson, Ypsilanti, Christopher Martell, '96, Mich. Rolla, N.D. Helen (Greenwood) McFadden, George Sinner, HON '96 Fargo Cavalier, N.D. Dr. Richard Zaruba, '99, '05, '07, West Fargo, N.D. Jerome Narum, Michigan, N.D. Patricia (Schraeder) Nelson, White 2000s Bear Lake, Minn. Todd Anderson, '00, Bernardsville, Wayne O'Connell, Shelly, Minn. N.J. Donna (Brenna) Partlow, Grand Erinn (Nordquist) Guggenheimer, '04, Forks Hopkins, Minn. Louise (Krueger) Roebuck, Devils Benjamin Olson, '04, Eaton, Colo. Lake, N.D. Bonnie Miller, '06, Bismarck Emolyn (Osnes) Skinner, Minneapolis Erik Valente, '09, Las Vegas, Nev. Robert Stewart, Grand Forks Geri (Fischer) Brien, '11, Bismarck David Sulerud, Scott Kerber, '11, Green Valley, Ariz. Fort Worth, Texas Robert Thom, MD, John Fagerholt, '14, Fargo Rancho Mirage, Calif. /// Jeffrey Bullis Jr., '16, Cottage Grove, Minn. A double period (..) in front of a year indicates the year that a non- graduate left UND. Faculty/Staff Ed Dondlinger, Madison, Wis. Dr. John Duerre, Woodbury, Minn. Patricia (Kalis) Graveline, Grand Forks Ronald Hegg, Grand Forks Barbara Hobart, Grand Forks Robert Kaminski, Grand Forks Margaret (Ruddy) Kiel, Grand Forks Hazel (Avron) Klein, Grand Forks Geralyn (Leiran) Lunski, East Grand Forks, Minn. Billy McCleary, East Grand Forks, Minn. John Ostby, Reynolds, N.D. Sally Page, Grand Forks Donald Severson, Leesburg, Va. Sandra (Uithof) Wells, Grand Forks Friends Barbara (Olson) Beeson, Brighton, Colo. Donald Berge, Erhard, Minn. Clarence Ellis, Crookston, Minn. Jacqueline Evans, Grand Forks Amos Flaten, Park River, N.D. James Gense, Drayton, N.D.

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PEDAL POWER Sarah Newgard, ’00, ’03, leaves the corporate world behind to pursue her Retirements dream of helping others live a healthy Two members of the lifestyle. p. 4 development team for the School of Medicine and Health Sciences (SMHS) have retired from the UND Alumni Association & Foundation.

Dave Miedema spent nearly 33 years Photo by Sam Melquist with the organization, finishing as the Find the Flame Senior Director of Development. On Target with UND The Find the Flame contest from the Target Field, home of the Minnesota "Dave was a great mentor and cover of the spring issue stumped Twins, felt like a home away from friend to many of us," said DeAnna a lot of readers with more incorrect home for UND fans on July 6 during Carlson Zink, CEO of the UND Alumni guesses than correct. Association & Foundation. "In just UND Night at Target Field. the last 12 years of his 30-plus year Just under 50 people found the career, he brought in $80 million in flame in the shadow of the bike on About 2,000 UND supporters wore philanthropic gifts. That is impact, the right (see photo above). Three Twins baseball caps made special for and Dave will be missed!" names were drawn from the correct the occasion with a Fighting Hawks entries to win a prize package from logo on the side and done in UND Also retiring this the UND Alumni Association & green. summer was Dave Gregory, Director of Foundation. The winners are Cheryl Lueker, Patti Miller, and Kadra Sean McGarry, grandson of UND Development for the SMHS. Gregory started Brophy. benefactor and alumnus Ralph with the organization Engelstad, threw the ceremonial first in 2015 as the director of corporate Look for the flame on the cover of pitch. and foundation relations. He this issue for your chance to win. transitioned into fundraising for the Many fans attended a pregame SMHS in 2016. Florida Reunion gathering at Kieran's Irish Pub just The 55th annual North Dakota "Dave is a consummate team player," Suncoast Association Luncheon down the street from Target Field. said Carlson Zink. "He worked will be held February 16, 2019, tirelessly to help medical students A special thanks to Marco for in Parrish, Florida. All with ties to have the best experience possible sponsoring alumni events North Dakota are encouraged at UND." to attend. Contact Jay Morgan, throughout the evening. A search for a new SMHS ..'73, at 941-378-4444 for further Director of Development is information. underway.

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