Leading Leaders Getting Their Heads Into the Game
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Leading Leaders BSU Alumnus Equips Executives in Esteemed Program Getting Their Heads into the Game Revolutionary Role-Play Games Come to Life at BSU Message from the President The brilliant reds, oranges, and golds of autumn accentuated the rhythm of campus this fall as we once again welcomed “home” new and returning students for the start of Bemidji State University’s 87th academic year. Also joining the BSU family were over 30 new members of the faculty and staff. A Community Appreciation Day and a BSU Service Week were just two of the many new activities added to such BSU traditions as freshman moving-in day, the all-campus picnic, the semester play, music concerts, Honors Lectures, and, of course, Homecoming. While the pace of fall’s rhythm seems to have quickened, there remains a familiar constancy to its beat: Bemidji State University is truly your university for all seasons. Jon E. Quistgaard Horizons Bemidji State University 1 Cover Story: Packing her bags and her dreams, Heather Hurd heads to New York City, where she lands a job with Phillips- Van Heusen. Story on Page 12. Contents 2 Campus Notes 5 Getting Their Heads into the Game 8 Seniors to Watch 10 Leading Leaders 12 A Dream by Design 14 Class Notes 19 BSU Foundation Annual Report Vol. 22, No. 1, Winter 2007 HORIZONS is produced by the Communications and Marketing Office, Alumni Association, and BSU Foundation at Bemidji State University. It is published three times per year and distributed free to BSU alumni, students, faculty, staff and friends of the University. Direct comments to [email protected] or 1-888-234-7794. 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BSU 06-414 Horizons Bemidji State University 1 CampusCampus Notes Notes Writing Program Recognized for Upcoming Events Alumni Credential Files Being Curriculum Excellence January 20, 2007 Returned or Eliminated The Minnesota State Colleges and Beaver Pride Winter Golf As of August 1, 2006, Career Services Universities (MnSCU) named the Tournament - noon at Bemidji moved to Self-Managed Credential Files for Bemidji State University bachelor of Waterfront students. At the same time, they also began fine arts in creative and professional February 16-17, 2007 releasing inactive files to alumni so they can writing as a recipient of an Excellence Athletic Hall of Fame create their own self-managed files. in Curriculum Programming Award. 1:00 P.M. Induction Ceremony Documents in files created before 1975 The honor was one of seven an- at Beaux Arts Ballroom are excluded, because they were estab- nounced by MnSCU for outstanding February 16, 2007 lished as confidential files. The only achievements in educational programs documents within those files available to and student services within its colleges MMEA BSU Alumni Reception alumni are student teaching evaluations. and universities. - 5:00 P.M. at Hell’s Kitchen, Minneapolis For a copy of your file, please complete the The BSU creative and professional release form available on the Career Ser- writing major, which began in 2001, March 17, 2007 vices web site at www.bemidjistate.edu/ca- is the only such bachelor’s degree Alumni Dinner with Golf reer. If you do not request Career Services offered in Minnesota and one of only Mesa, AZ to return your file, your credentials file will 13 programs in the United States. March 24, 2007 be eliminated beginning June 2008. In addition to courses in fiction, Alumni Dinner with Golf For more information, please contact poetry and creative nonfiction, the Palm Desert, CA Career Services via email at career@ program offers innovative profes- bemidjistate.edu or call 755-2038 or 1- sional and technical writing courses, June 17-24, 2007 800-657-3726. which are also beginning to be offered Alaskan Cruise on Sun Princess online. Check www.bsualumni.org Thai Venture Capitalism Analyzed for details on each event listed and for a complete calendar Dr. Bill Scheela, professor of business ad- Beauty Lake Development Tracked of events taking ministration, has long been fascinated place on the BSU campus! Bemidji State researchers are tracking by the development of the Asian venture the ecological impacts of residential capital industry. The interest started with development on Hubbard County’s a sabbatical at Chinese University in Hong Beauty Lake, which until recently was ity of this lake, but enhance Kong, continued with a teaching assign- completely undeveloped. understanding of processes ment at the National Economic University “Beauty Lake provides a unique op- on other lakes as well.” in Vietnam, and has been kept alive on re- cent research trips across the region. portunity to monitor a lake from an Dr. Charlie Parson, profes- undeveloped condition through stages sor emeriti of geography; His interests caught the attention of the toward more intense development,” Dr. Don Cloutman, associ- Thailand government, which hopes to learn says Dr. Patrick Welle, BSU project ate professor of biology; more about its venture capitalists as cata- manager and professor of economics and Dr. Rick Koch, associ- lysts for job creation, particularly in small and environmental, earth and space ate professor of biology, are and medium businesses. Scheela received studies. “The research should not only faculty researchers also in- a grant from two Thai sources to fund the inform efforts for protecting the qual- volved with the project. first of what Scheela hopes will be a multi- phased research project on the topic. “Many Asian countries believe that a key to stable economic growth is developing small and medium enterprises,” Scheela says. “These governments are attempt- ing to develop a vibrant venture capital industry to support the high-growth en- terprises that will provide jobs.” Scheela is conducting the research with Dr. Thawatchai Jittrapanun, an econom- ics professor at Chulalongkorn Univer- sity in Bangkok. BSU researchers are tracking development’s impact on Beauty Lake. 2 Bemidji State University Horizons Horizons Bemidji State University 3 BSU Football Captures NSICCampus Title Notes & Bowl Bid The BSU Beavers celebrated the football program’s first outright championship title in school history. Also this season, BSU football coach Jeff Tesch was named NSIC Coach of the Year. The team also garnered the program’s first bowl appearance, playing in the Mineral Water Bowl on Dec. 2 in Excelsior Springs, Mo. The team finished the year with a 9-3 record. Power Walking In Memoriam South Korean College, BSU Sign Dr. Faissal Abdel-Hady is looking for a Linda Poehls Allen ’83 Fergus Falls, MN Exchange Agreement big solution to a small energy problem, Catherine Doland Anderson ’31 Grand Rapids, MN Bemidji State University and Sunlin and he thinks he may have found it in a College in Pohang, South Korea, have person’s feet. Phyllis Anderson ’78 Batavia, IL Owen Bailey ’68 Wausau, WI signed agreements that allow for the Abdel-Hady, a Bemidji State University Jeanette Beardsley ’69 Park Rapids, MN exchange of students and faculty. faculty member with dual assignments Keith Benson ’87 Bemidji, MN “We’re so much closer today in real- in physics and technological studies, Robert Berg ’50 Rancho Santa Fe, CA izing a global society,” said Dr. Jon has received a grant to design an inno- Thomas Bohanon ’80 Las Vegas, NV Quistgaard, Bemidji State University vative linear generator that will harvest Judy Brandwick ’74 Crookston, MN president. “When people get together the energy from the vibration induced Diane Braun Brumwell ’70 and interact with each other, wonder- during human walking. Red Lake Falls, MN Wilré ‘Billie’ Chichester Jones ’39 ful things happen.” The program’s impetus is a desire to re- Hibbing, MN place traditional energy sources with Established in 1969, Sunlin offers un- Rudolph DeLuca ’62 Burnsville, MN dergraduate programs in nursing, pub- sustainable alternatives, such as walking. Juanita Goswick Ellison ’70 Since portable electronic equipment Wildwood Township, MN lic health, fashion, computer science, is becoming smaller while providing a Evelyn Anderson Johnson ’62 architecture, dermatology and beauty wider range of functionality, users are Bemidji, MN art, information and communication becoming more reliant on the devices. Michael Kruse ’74 Ramsey, MN and industrial engineering. As part of William Lesnak ’72 Chisholm, MN its mission, Sunlin has become an ac- This is especially the case in remote Neil Martin ’67 Hastings, MN tive participant in global education, locations where batteries are not read- Mark Martinson ’92 Barnesville, MN signing study agreements with colleg- ily available and in situations where Charles Osborn ’50 Minneapolis, MN es and universities in 13 countries. continual use causes excess battery con- Loren Pederson ’60 Moorhead, MN sumption. Such a system would allow Eleanor Pfau ’31 Bemidji, MN “We have a strong commitment to in- disaster relief workers, explorers, mili- Shirley Dike Plantz ’87 Chanhassen, MN ternational education and an appre- tary personnel or others to go into the Frank Price ’64 Colorado Springs, CO ciation for programs like the exchange field with fewer heavy replacement bat- Gladys Hjelle Prickett ’65 agreement with Bemidji State Univer- teries for cell phones, GPS instruments, Middle River, MN sity,” said Dr.