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 1 Alumni Review | Summer 2018 ALUMNI REVIEW University of North Dakota Alumni Association CONTENTS ALUMNI REVIEW | VOL. 101 NO. 2 | SUMMER 2018 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. 4 Alumni Review | Summer 2018 FEATURE 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.