The Center forWestern Studies WINTER 2012 NON-PROFIT Augustana College ORGANIZATION VOL.32,NO. 3 2001 South Summit Avenue U.S. POSTAGE www.augie.edu/cws PAID Sioux Falls,SD 57197 SIOUX FALLS Published three times annually SOUTH DAKOTA and supported by a grant from PERMIT NO. 5 the National Endowment for the Humanities Harry F.Thompson, Executive Director Kristi Thomas, Education Assistant Liz Thrond, Collections Assistant Amy Nelson, Secretary Phone: 605.274.4007 Fax: 605.274.4999 Email: [email protected] THE CENTER FOR WESTERN STUDIES | AUGUSTANACOLLEGE | FANTLE BUILDING Web: www.augie.edu/cws/ Hours: M-F 8-5/Sat 10-2 Center Acquires Largest Collection In Its History Augustana College Fantle Building The collection of historical and cultural material from Blue Cloud Abbey’s 2121S. Summit Ave., Sioux Falls, SD American Indian Culture Research Center is the largest single acquisition in the The Center’s archives are open Center’s history. Consisting of 4,600 books, 40,000 images, 100 works of art, and 300 M-F by appointment. material culture items, such as bead- and quillwork, the collection joins AICRC founder Fr.Stanislaus Maudlin’s papers previously donated to the Center. “We feel confident in Friend us on Facebook! trusting the materials from the American Indian Culture Research Center will be www.facebook.com/ respected in their new home at the Center for Western Studies,”wrote Abbot Denis CenterforWesternStudies Quinkert, OSB. “The mission of the Center for Western Studies and the Follow @AugieCWS mission of the AICRC are similar in that we are both committed PLEASE VISIT THE WWW.AUGIE.EDU/CWS/ to doing all we can to preserve and interpret the rich history and TO VIEW MEMBERSHIP AND OTHER GIFTS. THANKYOU TO ALL OF OUR SUPPORTERS! vibrant cultures of the Northern Plains. Not only can CWS offer Beadwork and quillwork from the Blue display and archival space for these important pieces of history, AUGUSTANA IS AN AFFIRMATIVE ACTION,TITLE IX, Cloud Abbey-American Indian Culture EQUAL OPPORTUNITY INSTITUTION. we will also work in conjunction with Augustan a’s Mikkelsen Research Center Collection on display Library to catalog the book collection using the latest library at CWS. (above and below) technology,ensuring its accessibility to researchers around the globe,”said Harry Thompson, Executive Director of the Center for Western Studies. “We are excited, honored and humbled to become the new home for the AICRC collection, and we pledge to preserve and celebrate its precious capsules of history so that Events Calendar November Media Blitz others may learn from them.” February CWS was the subject of three major news stories in November: achieving the $1.5 Sioux Falls businessman Matt Parker,owner of Parke r Transfer 2 Saturdays at CWS: million endowment campaign goal, presenting technology and foreign affairs and Storage, and his father, Jeff Parker,volunteered their Kara Dirksen specialist Jared Cohen at the Boe Forum, and receiving Blue Cloud Abbey’s American professional assistance in moving the collection to the Center. (Building Your Art Collection) Indian Culture Research Center collection. More information about these stories may Collections Assistant Liz Thrond made trips to Blue Cloud Abbey 15-17 33rd Artists of the Plains Art be found at the following links: to ensure the integrity of the collection. Fr. Stan Maudlin, Show & Sale www.augie.edu/news/2012-10/center-western-studies-grows-endowment For more than twenty years, until the death of Fr.Stan in March www.augie.edu/news/2012-11/center-western-studies-named-repository-blue-cloud-abbey 2006, Thompson worked with Fr.Stan to place his personal OSB, with Executive Director Harry 20 Reception for Jerry Fogg www.augie.edu/news/2012-11/news-boe-forum-speaker-sees-good-ill-digital-frontier papers at the Center. In 2007, in collaboration with the Eastman Thompson, on one Exhibit Kodak Co. and National Advisory Council member Jeffrey April New Science Center Named for Former CWS Director Hayzlett, then Chief Business Development Officer at Kodak, of Fr. Stan's last Augustana College announced recently that a new $30 million science center will be Kodak published Impressions of Tribal Life, a collection of visits to CWS. 13 Saturdays at CWS: named in honor of Dr.Sven G. Froiland, Professor of Biology at Augustana from 1946 images from glass-plate negatives in the AICRC collection at CWS.The book featured Gene Smith to 1987, who not only championed the need for an increased emphasis on faculty and essays on photographer Fr. Ambrose Mattingly by Thompson and on Benedictine (Digital Photography) undergraduate research,but also served as a driving force behind the project to build 26-27 mission work with tribal communities by Herbert T.Hoover,Professor Emeritus of 45th Dakota Conference: the Gilbert Science Center nearly 50 years ago in the mid-1960s. President Oliver History,University of South Dakota. Copies of the book are available at $29.95 in the The Spanish Northern noted that this is the most significant building project in the college’s 152-year history. gift shop. Plains Sven served part-time as the Center’s Executive Director,1976-1983, and as the first full-time director,1983-1987. More information about the Froiland Science Center may be found in the autumn issue of The Augustana. Initiative Moves CWS Into New Arts Era Russ Duerksen Exhibit Art Purchase Fund Established Saturday Volunteers Needed Recent actions by the Board of Directors move CWS into a new era of the visual Barry LeBeau, one of the directors of the The Reverend A. Richard“Pastor Pete”and Bev Peterson recently completed their arts. The Board approved the Art Collecting Plan 2012-15 at its October meeting and Northern Plains Indian Art Market, thanks service as Saturday volunteers at the Center. They were among the first group of the establishment of an Art Purchase Fund at its December meeting. Weighing the CWS for its participation in celebrating the volunteers recruited by former Development Director Dean Schueler. 25th Anniversary of NPIAM by exhibiting the strengths and weaknesses of the art collection, which includes many artifacts, such as works of five artists who have shown since Loren Amundson, M.D., is starting his fifth year as a volunteer in the archives. rosemaled furniture, beadwork, and quillwork, the plan delineates three categories of 1988: Roger Broer, Jackie Sevier, Paul Ends February 23 Recently completed projects by Dr.Amundson include the Berdahl Family Papers and art collecting: Fine Art, Ethnographic, and Non-accessioned. The consultant for the Szabo, Richard Red Owl, and Harvey scanning of the Sioux Falls Historic Slide Collection. Loren and his wife, Mavis, plan was Lisa Scholten, Curator of Collections at the South Dakota Art Museum, in Rattey. Education Assistant Kristi Thomas, vo lunteer at the Sioux Valley Genealogical Library. who coordinated the exhibit, looks on. If you would like to donate four hours, 10 am -2 pm, on an occasional Saturday, Brookings. please contact the CWS Secretary Amy Nelson at 274-4007 or e-mail The plan is a component of the Art Collection Initiative, launched in 2011 and [email protected]. Volunteers were acknowledged at a recent luncheon in their designed to accomplish three goals: (1) achieve honor. intellectual control over the Center’s growing art continued on next page... continued from page 1 (Art Purchase Fund Established) Boe Forum Speaker Provides Glimpse Into The Future (including artifact) collection by implementing a database management system; (2) develop an “It’s the very first technology in the world’s Board and Council News Art Collecting Plan with speci fic history that allows you to develop, own and Board of Directors: Patrick recommendations regarding future disseminate content without an intermediary,” Hicks,Writer in Residence at Recent Archives acquisitions; and (3) assess the conservation observed Jared Cohen, referring to the mobile Augustana, recently gave a keynote Acquisitions needs of the art collection. phone. The power of this technology was address at the South Dakota Library The Center’s Art Committee—Stan illustrated perfectly in the Arab Spring uprising, Association’s annual conference, in Christopherson (Chair), Mary Brendtro, said the speaker in the Center for Western Huron. His book, A Harvest of Camp Remington Association Words: Contemporary South Dakota Collection: The Camp Remington Michael Haug, and Michael Mullin— Studies’ Boe Forum on Public Affairs. Poetry, publish ed by CWS, received a Association donated one box of recommended approval of the plan by the This year’s Boe Forum Committee selected commendatory review in the literary correspondence, photographs, and Board. In early August, a conservation “social media and social change”as the primary journal PADDLEFISH 2012. Michael other research material about Camp specialist, Elisa Redman, from the Midwest Florida businessman Paul Mohrman theme for the 17th Boe Forum. The standing Mullin, NEH Chair in Regional (left) visits with Executive Director Harry committee of the Board of Directors was Heritage at Augustana, presented a Remington in the Black Hills, largely Art Conservation Center,in Minneapolis, Thompson about the collection of 29 paper on the Grand Army of the focused on the years 1950-1980. The conducted a two-day assessment of bronze sculptures by C.A. Pardell and especially interested in combining advances in Republic in Dakota Territory at the material was used for their new conservation needs under a grant from the Willy Whitten donated to CWS by Paul communication technology with foreign affairs, Northern Great Plains History publication, A Little Bit of Heaven: National Institute for Preservation, a program and Julie Mohrman earlier this year. The and Jared Cohen was at the top of the list. 17th Boe Forum speaker Jared Cohen Conference, in Fargo. Richard Muller, of the Institute for Museum and Library Mohrmans also made a major financial Arrangements were made to bring the former with President Rob Oliver and University of South Dakota School of History and Memoirs, Camp donation to the Froiland Science Center. CWS Board Chair Tony Haga. Business, completed two terms on Remington, 1922-2012. Services. The report, with recommendations for improving conservation of the State Department consultant to Sioux Falls as the Center’s Board. We look forward Gary Conradi Collection: Gary collections, will be submitted to the Center in February. part of Cohen’s travel from New York City to Silicon Valley,California. Super-storm to Richard’s continuing interest in Conradi recently donated a A provision of the Art Collecting Plan encourages the Board to seize upon Sandy followed by a snowstorm at the Teteboro Airport, New Jersey,nearly prevented chairing sessions and presenting at opportunities to acquire important his appearance, on November 8. the D akota Conference. Lynn Aspaas photograph album he created about was appointed to the Board for a the (often surprising) burial places of regional art. Recognizing that the More than 2,200 people attended the lecture, with about 100 students and third term by President Oliver, South Dakota’s governors. The album Northern Plains Indian Art Market’s 25th faculty from area high schools and Augustana participating in a press conference. The starting in January. The Distinguished includes research notes and 190 Anniversary Exhibit at CWS presented Augustana Communication Studies Department worked with Communication Honor Achievement Award in the photographs. such an opportunity,the Art Committee Society students to develop questions for the Q&A at the lecture. Humanities from the South Dakota selected Four Colors, by Oglala Lakota Read Jared Cohen’s interview by Augustana Communications Director Kelly Humanities Council was presented to Joe Kirby Collection: Joe P.Kirby Board member Gerry Berger Law in donated materials related to his great- artist Richard Red Owl, as a Sprecher in the autumn issue of The Augustana. September. grandfather,Joe Kirby,an important representative work. The purchase price National Advisory Council: legal figure in Sioux Falls during the for this original piece is $1,120, and gifts Presenters and Authors Sought For 45th Annual Dakota Conference Author and National Humanities are now being accepted to establish the Medal recipient Virginia Driving late nineteenth and early twentieth Searching for the fabled cities of gold, Coronado in the 1540s pushed as far north Hawk Sneve published The centuries. The collection includes Art Purchase Fund, with an initial goal of into the Great Plains as central Kansas.Two hundred years later,Villasur reached the Christmas Coat: Memories of My Kirby’s 1896 office diary and the $10,000. Platte River in central Nebraska, where his party was attacked and defeated by Otoes Sioux Childhood (Holiday House, Western Surety minutes book for The gift of twenty-nine bronze and Pawnees. Spanish fur trader Manuel Lisa worked the upper regions of the 2011). Virginia als o received the 1900-1964. sculptures from Paul and Julie Mohrman Missouri River in the early 1800s.At its zenith in 1795, New Spain constituted most of Distinguished Achievement Award in The painting Four Colors, by Richard Red Owl, and the acquisition of the Blue Cloud the Humanities from the South Carol Mashek Collection: Timothy has been selected by the Board of Directors the American West.Today,large Hispanic/Latino population s live in the Northern Dakota Humanities Council. Christel and Tarence Mas hek, sons of the late as the work to represent the Northern Plains Abbey-American Indian Culture Plains, especially in Nebraska, Iowa, Minnesota, and Colorado. In metropolitan Sioux Gollnick is Account Vice President at Carol Mashek, donated their mother’s Indian Art Market's 25th Anniversary Exhibit. Research Center Collection have more Falls (pop. 250,000), for example, the Hispanic/Latino population is now the largest Trozollo Communications Group in extensive collection of personal than doubled the Center’s art and artifact collecti on. The addition of the AICRC minority,with more than 22,000 residents.The Center for Western Studies is seeking the Kansas City area; she is formerly Collection and Mohrman Collection, a large portion of which is on exhibit in the Owner/President of River City Studio. papers, which include a lifetime of papers on all aspects of Spanish exploration of and Hispanic/Latino immigration to Jeffrey Hayzlett, an international materials related to Carol’s own Elmen Gallery,has necessitated the expansion of space for art storage into a second the Northern Plains. Papers and sessions on all aspects of the Northern Plains are also leader in marketing, business and research and writing on Sioux Falls room and the purchase of additional shelving. Several large bronze sculptures now welcome. public relations and formerly the and South Dakota history. greet visitors to the Fantle Building when they enter the Jerry and Gail Simmons Speakers addre ssing the topic of“The Spanish Northern Plains”include Juan Chief Marketing Officer and Vice Save the Coliseum Collection: Jim Rotunda Gallery. Gifts to the Center’s Endowment Campaign/NEH Challenge Grant Bonilla, President of LaVoz Hispana TV and Chair of the Sioux Falls Diversity Council; President of the Eastman Kodak designated for the Art and Education Program Fund are underwriting a portion of the Company,has published his second A. Carlson donated a box of materials Derek Everett of Metropolitan State University of Denver; Pablo Rangel, University of b ook, The Mirror Test. More related to the Save the Coliseum cost of the Center’s expansion into this new era of the visual arts. Nebraska-Lincoln; Juan Gonzalez, Northern State University; Thomas Simmons, a information about Jeffrey’s activities Committee, which worked 33rd Annual Artists of the Plains Art Show & Sale Rapid City attorney; and Michael Olson, author of books about the Santa Fe Trail. may be found at www.hayzlett.com. successfully to prevent scheduled First Dakota National Bank CEO and Holiday Inn City Centre • February 15-17, 2013 Sessions on other topics include“The Life and Historical Legacy of Senator James demolition of the Sioux Falls Coliseum Chairman of the Board Larry Ness Friday: 5-9 pm, Saturday: 10 am-6 pm, Sunday: 10 am-3:30 pm Abdnor”;“The Story of South Dakota Immigrant Groups”; and“Reflections on Thirty was inducted into the South Dakota in 2001. Years of Political Reporting in South Dakota.” Jeffrey Johnson, Providence College, Hall of Fame this fall. Carol Sundem Collection: A set of The following artists have Rhode Island, will speak on Labor Day in the Progressive Era in the Upper Midwest, Jeffrey Johnson, Associate phonograph records donated by Carol been invited to the 2013 and Gary Olson will talk about the demographic profile of Norwegian immigrants in Professor of History at Providence Sundem includes two of the Augustana College, Rhode Island, has recently show and sale: Tara Barney, Sioux Falls. been appointed Program Director for A Cappella Choir recorded at the JoAnne Bird, Bryan Bortnem, Presenters should send a one-page paper or session proposal with title, brief American Studies. Historian and Columbia phonograph company in Bonnie Brahms, Russ description, and biographical sketch, along with name, street address, phone number, author Jon Lauck gave the keynote New York City during the choir’s tour Duerksen, Jess Elofson, Jerry and e-mail address, to“Dakota Conference,” The Center for Western Studies,Augustana address at the Rural West Conference to the northeastern United States in Fogg, Pam Harr, Marian College, 2001 S. Summit Ave., Sioux Falls, SD 57197, or send information via e-mail to hosted b y Stanford University's Bill Lane Center for the American West in the summer of 1929! The next oldest Henjum, Diana Hensley, [email protected]. Proposals are due on or before February 8, 2013. Please October. He has published three Augustana choir recording in the David Huebner, Carol indicate whether you would be willing to serve as a session chair. articles recently,in Great Plains archives is from 1949. Lundeen, Don Montileaux, Authors of recent books of regional interest are encouraged to contact Harry Quarterly (Summer 2012), Heritage Deb Parks, Harvey Rattey, Thompson, Executive Directo r,at [email protected], by February 8, 2013. of the Great Plains (Summer 2012), and Annals of Iowa:A Quarterly Gisèle Robinson, Jennifer by JoAnne Bird The Twenty-sixth Northern Plains Autograph Party will be held on Saturday,April 27, in Journal of History (2012). Stone, Johnny Swatek, Paul conjunction with the conference. Cash awards will be presented for best papers in Szabo, Linda Szabo, Brian each of the following categories: professional (academic), amateur (non-academic), Szabo, Ed Thomas, Sharon student, and women’s history. Welch, Karlys Wells, Jennifer The Dakota Conference is supported in part by a grant from the National 2 White, and Drake Wood. Northern Sun Endowment for the Humanities. 3 continued from page 1 (Art Purchase Fund Established) Boe Forum Speaker Provides Glimpse Into The Future (including artifact) collection by implementing a database management system; (2) develop an “It’s the very first technology in the world’s Board and Council News Art Collecting Plan with speci fic history that allows you to develop, own and Board of Directors: Patrick recommendations regarding future disseminate content without an intermediary,” Hicks,Writer in Residence at Recent Archives acquisitions; and (3) assess the conservation observed Jared Cohen, referring to the mobile Augustana, recently gave a keynote Acquisitions needs of the art collection. phone. The power of this technology was address at the South Dakota Library The Center’s Art Committee—Stan illustrated perfectly in the Arab Spring uprising, Association’s annual conference, in Christopherson (Chair), Mary Brendtro, said the speaker in the Center for Western Huron. His book, A Harvest of Camp Remington Association Words: Contemporary South Dakota Collection: The Camp Remington Michael Haug, and Michael Mullin— Studies’ Boe Forum on Public Affairs. Poetry, publish ed by CWS, received a Association donated one box of recommended approval of the plan by the This year’s Boe Forum Committee selected commendatory review in the literary correspondence, photographs, and Board. In early August, a conservation “social media and social change”as the primary journal PADDLEFISH 2012. Michael other research material about Camp specialist, Elisa Redman, from the Midwest Florida businessman Paul Mohrman theme for the 17th Boe Forum. The standing Mullin, NEH Chair in Regional (left) visits with Executive Director Harry committee of the Board of Directors was Heritage at Augustana, presented a Remington in the Black Hills, largely Art Conservation Center,in Minneapolis, Thompson about the collection of 29 paper on the Grand Army of the focused on the years 1950-1980. The conducted a two-day assessment of bronze sculptures by C.A. Pardell and especially interested in combining advances in Republic in Dakota Territory at the material was used for their new conservation needs under a grant from the Willy Whitten donated to CWS by Paul communication technology with foreign affairs, Northern Great Plains History publication, A Little Bit of Heaven: National Institute for Preservation, a program and Julie Mohrman earlier this year. The and Jared Cohen was at the top of the list. 17th Boe Forum speaker Jared Cohen Conference, in Fargo. Richard Muller, of the Institute for Museum and Library Mohrmans also made a major financial Arrangements were made to bring the former with President Rob Oliver and University of South Dakota School of History and Memoirs, Camp donation to the Froiland Science Center. CWS Board Chair Tony Haga. Business, completed two terms on Remington, 1922-2012. Services. The report, with recommendations for improving conservation of the State Department consultant to Sioux Falls as the Center’s Board. We look forward Gary Conradi Collection: Gary collections, will be submitted to the Center in February. part of Cohen’s travel from New York City to Silicon Valley,California. Super-storm to Richard’s continuing interest in Conradi recently donated a A provision of the Art Collecting Plan encourages the Board to seize upon Sandy followed by a snowstorm at the Teteboro Airport, New Jersey,nearly prevented chairing sessions and presenting at opportunities to acquire important his appearance, on November 8. the D akota Conference. Lynn Aspaas photograph album he created about was appointed to the Board for a the (often surprising) burial places of regional art. Recognizing that the More than 2,200 people attended the lecture, with about 100 students and third term by President Oliver, South Dakota’s governors. The album Northern Plains Indian Art Market’s 25th faculty from area high schools and Augustana participating in a press conference. The starting in January. The Distinguished includes research notes and 190 Anniversary Exhibit at CWS presented Augustana Communication Studies Department worked with Communication Honor Achievement Award in the photographs. such an opportunity,the Art Committee Society students to develop questions for the Q&A at the lecture. Humanities from the South Dakota selected Four Colors, by Oglala Lakota Read Jared Cohen’s interview by Augustana Communications Director Kelly Humanities Council was presented to Joe Kirby Collection: Joe P.Kirby Board member Gerry Berger Law in donated materials related to his great- artist Richard Red Owl, as a Sprecher in the autumn issue of The Augustana. September. grandfather,Joe Kirby,an important representative work. The purchase price National Advisory Council: legal figure in Sioux Falls during the for this original piece is $1,120, and gifts Presenters and Authors Sought For 45th Annual Dakota Conference Author and National Humanities are now being accepted to establish the Medal recipient Virginia Driving late nineteenth and early twentieth Searching for the fabled cities of gold, Coronado in the 1540s pushed as far north Hawk Sneve published The centuries. The collection includes Art Purchase Fund, with an initial goal of into the Great Plains as central Kansas.Two hundred years later,Villasur reached the Christmas Coat: Memories of My Kirby’s 1896 office diary and the $10,000. Platte River in central Nebraska, where his party was attacked and defeated by Otoes Sioux Childhood (Holiday House, Western Surety minutes book for The gift of twenty-nine bronze and Pawnees. Spanish fur trader Manuel Lisa worked the upper regions of the 2011). Virginia als o received the 1900-1964. sculptures from Paul and Julie Mohrman Missouri River in the early 1800s.At its zenith in 1795, New Spain constituted most of Distinguished Achievement Award in The painting Four Colors, by Richard Red Owl, and the acquisition of the Blue Cloud the Humanities from the South Carol Mashek Collection: Timothy has been selected by the Board of Directors the American West.Today,large Hispanic/Latino population s live in the Northern Dakota Humanities Council. Christel and Tarence Mas hek, sons of the late as the work to represent the Northern Plains Abbey-American Indian Culture Plains, especially in Nebraska, Iowa, Minnesota, and Colorado. In metropolitan Sioux Gollnick is Account Vice President at Carol Mashek, donated their mother’s Indian Art Market's 25th Anniversary Exhibit. Research Center Collection have more Falls (pop. 250,000), for example, the Hispanic/Latino population is now the largest Trozollo Communications Group in extensive collection of personal than doubled the Center’s art and artifact collecti on. The addition of the AICRC minority,with more than 22,000 residents.The Center for Western Studies is seeking the Kansas City area; she is formerly Collection and Mohrman Collection, a large portion of which is on exhibit in the Owner/President of River City Studio. papers, which include a lifetime of papers on all aspects of Spanish exploration of and Hispanic/Latino immigration to Jeffrey Hayzlett, an international materials related to Carol’s own Elmen Gallery,has necessitated the expansion of space for art storage into a second the Northern Plains. Papers and sessions on all aspects of the Northern Plains are also leader in marketing, business and research and writing on Sioux Falls room and the purchase of additional shelving. Several large bronze sculptures now welcome. public relations and formerly the and South Dakota history. greet visitors to the Fantle Building when they enter the Jerry and Gail Simmons Speakers addre ssing the topic of“The Spanish Northern Plains”include Juan Chief Marketing Officer and Vice Save the Coliseum Collection: Jim Rotunda Gallery. Gifts to the Center’s Endowment Campaign/NEH Challenge Grant Bonilla, President of LaVoz Hispana TV and Chair of the Sioux Falls Diversity Council; President of the Eastman Kodak designated for the Art and Education Program Fund are underwriting a portion of the Company,has published his second A. Carlson donated a box of materials Derek Everett of Metropolitan State University of Denver; Pablo Rangel, University of b ook, The Mirror Test. More related to the Save the Coliseum cost of the Center’s expansion into this new era of the visual arts. Nebraska-Lincoln; Juan Gonzalez, Northern State University; Thomas Simmons, a information about Jeffrey’s activities Committee, which worked 33rd Annual Artists of the Plains Art Show & Sale Rapid City attorney; and Michael Olson, author of books about the Santa Fe Trail. may be found at www.hayzlett.com. successfully to prevent scheduled First Dakota National Bank CEO and Holiday Inn City Centre • February 15-17, 2013 Sessions on other topics include“The Life and Historical Legacy of Senator James demolition of the Sioux Falls Coliseum Chairman of the Board Larry Ness Friday: 5-9 pm, Saturday: 10 am-6 pm, Sunday: 10 am-3:30 pm Abdnor”;“The Story of South Dakota Immigrant Groups”; and“Reflections on Thirty was inducted into the South Dakota in 2001. Years of Political Reporting in South Dakota.” Jeffrey Johnson, Providence College, Hall of Fame this fall. Carol Sundem Collection: A set of The following artists have Rhode Island, will speak on Labor Day in the Progressive Era in the Upper Midwest, Jeffrey Johnson, Associate phonograph records donated by Carol been invited to the 2013 and Gary Olson will talk about the demographic profile of Norwegian immigrants in Professor of History at Providence Sundem includes two of the Augustana College, Rhode Island, has recently show and sale: Tara Barney, Sioux Falls. been appointed Program Director for A Cappella Choir recorded at the JoAnne Bird, Bryan Bortnem, Presenters should send a one-page paper or session proposal with title, brief American Studies. Historian and Columbia phonograph company in Bonnie Brahms, Russ description, and biographical sketch, along with name, street address, phone number, author Jon Lauck gave the keynote New York City during the choir’s tour Duerksen, Jess Elofson, Jerry and e-mail address, to“Dakota Conference,” The Center for Western Studies,Augustana address at the Rural West Conference to the northeastern United States in Fogg, Pam Harr, Marian College, 2001 S. Summit Ave., Sioux Falls, SD 57197, or send information via e-mail to hosted b y Stanford University's Bill Lane Center for the American West in the summer of 1929! The next oldest Henjum, Diana Hensley, [email protected]. Proposals are due on or before February 8, 2013. Please October. He has published three Augustana choir recording in the David Huebner, Carol indicate whether you would be willing to serve as a session chair. articles recently,in Great Plains archives is from 1949. Lundeen, Don Montileaux, Authors of recent books of regional interest are encouraged to contact Harry Quarterly (Summer 2012), Heritage Deb Parks, Harvey Rattey, Thompson, Executive Directo r,at [email protected], by February 8, 2013. of the Great Plains (Summer 2012), and Annals of Iowa:A Quarterly Gisèle Robinson, Jennifer by JoAnne Bird The Twenty-sixth Northern Plains Autograph Party will be held on Saturday,April 27, in Journal of History (2012). Stone, Johnny Swatek, Paul conjunction with the conference. Cash awards will be presented for best papers in Szabo, Linda Szabo, Brian each of the following categories: professional (academic), amateur (non-academic), Szabo, Ed Thomas, Sharon student, and women’s history. Welch, Karlys Wells, Jennifer The Dakota Conference is supported in part by a grant from the National 2 White, and Drake Wood. Northern Sun Endowment for the Humanities. 3 The Center forWestern Studies WINTER 2012 NON-PROFIT Augustana College ORGANIZATION VOL.32,NO. 3 2001 South Summit Avenue U.S. POSTAGE www.augie.edu/cws PAID Sioux Falls,SD 57197 SIOUX FALLS Published three times annually SOUTH DAKOTA and supported by a grant from PERMIT NO. 5 the National Endowment for the Humanities Harry F.Thompson, Executive Director Kristi Thomas, Education Assistant Liz Thrond, Collections Assistant Amy Nelson, Secretary Phone: 605.274.4007 Fax: 605.274.4999 Email: [email protected] THE CENTER FOR WESTERN STUDIES | AUGUSTANACOLLEGE | FANTLE BUILDING Web: www.augie.edu/cws/ Hours: M-F 8-5/Sat 10-2 Center Acquires Largest Collection In Its History Augustana College Fantle Building The collection of historical and cultural material from Blue Cloud Abbey’s 2121S. Summit Ave., Sioux Falls, SD American Indian Culture Research Center is the largest single acquisition in the The Center’s archives are open Center’s history. Consisting of 4,600 books, 40,000 images, 100 works of art, and 300 M-F by appointment. material culture items, such as bead- and quillwork, the collection joins AICRC founder Fr.Stanislaus Maudlin’s papers previously donated to the Center. “We feel confident in Friend us on Facebook! trusting the materials from the American Indian Culture Research Center will be www.facebook.com/ respected in their new home at the Center for Western Studies,”wrote Abbot Denis CenterforWesternStudies Quinkert, OSB. “The mission of the Center for Western Studies and the Follow @AugieCWS mission of the AICRC are similar in that we are both committed PLEASE VISIT THE WWW.AUGIE.EDU/CWS/ to doing all we can to preserve and interpret the rich history and TO VIEW MEMBERSHIP AND OTHER GIFTS. THANKYOU TO ALL OF OUR SUPPORTERS! vibrant cultures of the Northern Plains. Not only can CWS offer Beadwork and quillwork from the Blue display and archival space for these important pieces of history, AUGUSTANA IS AN AFFIRMATIVE ACTION,TITLE IX, Cloud Abbey-American Indian Culture EQUAL OPPORTUNITY INSTITUTION. we will also work in conjunction with Augustan a’s Mikkelsen Research Center Collection on display Library to catalog the book collection using the latest library at CWS. (above and below) technology,ensuring its accessibility to researchers around the globe,”said Harry Thompson, Executive Director of the Center for Western Studies. “We are excited, honored and humbled to become the new home for the AICRC collection, and we pledge to preserve and celebrate its precious capsules of history so that Events Calendar November Media Blitz others may learn from them.” February CWS was the subject of three major news stories in November: achieving the $1.5 Sioux Falls businessman Matt Parker,owner of Parke r Transfer 2 Saturdays at CWS: million endowment campaign goal, presenting technology and foreign affairs and Storage, and his father, Jeff Parker,volunteered their Kara Dirksen specialist Jared Cohen at the Boe Forum, and receiving Blue Cloud Abbey’s American professional assistance in moving the collection to the Center. (Building Your Art Collection) Indian Culture Research Center collection. More information about these stories may Collections Assistant Liz Thrond made trips to Blue Cloud Abbey 15-17 33rd Artists of the Plains Art be found at the following links: to ensure the integrity of the collection. Fr. Stan Maudlin, Show & Sale www.augie.edu/news/2012-10/center-western-studies-grows-endowment For more than twenty years, until the death of Fr.Stan in March www.augie.edu/news/2012-11/center-western-studies-named-repository-blue-cloud-abbey 2006, Thompson worked with Fr.Stan to place his personal OSB, with Executive Director Harry 20 Reception for Jerry Fogg www.augie.edu/news/2012-11/news-boe-forum-speaker-sees-good-ill-digital-frontier papers at the Center. In 2007, in collaboration with the Eastman Thompson, on one Exhibit Kodak Co. and National Advisory Council member Jeffrey April New Science Center Named for Former CWS Director Hayzlett, then Chief Business Development Officer at Kodak, of Fr. Stan's last Augustana College announced recently that a new $30 million science center will be Kodak published Impressions of Tribal Life, a collection of visits to CWS. 13 Saturdays at CWS: named in honor of Dr.Sven G. Froiland, Professor of Biology at Augustana from 1946 images from glass-plate negatives in the AICRC collection at CWS.The book featured Gene Smith to 1987, who not only championed the need for an increased emphasis on faculty and essays on photographer Fr. Ambrose Mattingly by Thompson and on Benedictine (Digital Photography) undergraduate research,but also served as a driving force behind the project to build 26-27 mission work with tribal communities by Herbert T.Hoover,Professor Emeritus of 45th Dakota Conference: the Gilbert Science Center nearly 50 years ago in the mid-1960s. President Oliver History,University of South Dakota. Copies of the book are available at $29.95 in the The Spanish Northern noted that this is the most significant building project in the college’s 152-year history. gift shop. Plains Sven served part-time as the Center’s Executive Director,1976-1983, and as the first full-time director,1983-1987. More information about the Froiland Science Center may be found in the autumn issue of The Augustana. Initiative Moves CWS Into New Arts Era Russ Duerksen Exhibit Art Purchase Fund Established Saturday Volunteers Needed Recent actions by the Board of Directors move CWS into a new era of the visual Barry LeBeau, one of the directors of the The Reverend A. Richard“Pastor Pete”and Bev Peterson recently completed their arts. The Board approved the Art Collecting Plan 2012-15 at its October meeting and Northern Plains Indian Art Market, thanks service as Saturday volunteers at the Center. They were among the first group of the establishment of an Art Purchase Fund at its December meeting. Weighing the CWS for its participation in celebrating the volunteers recruited by former Development Director Dean Schueler. 25th Anniversary of NPIAM by exhibiting the strengths and weaknesses of the art collection, which includes many artifacts, such as works of five artists who have shown since Loren Amundson, M.D., is starting his fifth year as a volunteer in the archives. rosemaled furniture, beadwork, and quillwork, the plan delineates three categories of 1988: Roger Broer, Jackie Sevier, Paul Ends February 23 Recently completed projects by Dr.Amundson include the Berdahl Family Papers and art collecting: Fine Art, Ethnographic, and Non-accessioned. The consultant for the Szabo, Richard Red Owl, and Harvey scanning of the Sioux Falls Historic Slide Collection. Loren and his wife, Mavis, plan was Lisa Scholten, Curator of Collections at the South Dakota Art Museum, in Rattey. Education Assistant Kristi Thomas, vo lunteer at the Sioux Valley Genealogical Library. who coordinated the exhibit, looks on. If you would like to donate four hours, 10 am -2 pm, on an occasional Saturday, Brookings. please contact the CWS Secretary Amy Nelson at 274-4007 or e-mail The plan is a component of the Art Collection Initiative, launched in 2011 and [email protected]. Volunteers were acknowledged at a recent luncheon in their designed to accomplish three goals: (1) achieve honor. intellectual control over the Center’s growing art continued on next page...