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WHO BELIEVED IN YOU? Former Alumni Association Executive Director and Foundation CEO Earl Strinden saw something in DeAnna Carlson Zink in 1986 and, 30 years later, she leads the organization. P. 6 contents departments 4 Message from DeAnna Who believed in you?

20 What’s New News from around campus.

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5 Raiding the Design World UND grad takes her career to the National Football League. By Kaylee Cusack 6 Who Believed in You? DeAnna Carlson Zink gets a chance to thank her mentor, Earl Strinden, features for believing in her. 10 The Voice UND alumna makes national name for herself on hit NBC talent search. By Kaylee Cusak

12 The Voice of the Prairie Dave Thompson, '78, has been a fixture at Prairie Public Radio since its start in the early '80s. By Milo Smith 16 Deep Cuts Budget cuts hit UND academic and athletic programs hard. By Kaylee Cusack this issue ALUMNIinside REVIEW | VOL. 100 NO. 1 | SPRING 2017

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DeAnna with John Quiñones before the ABC Dear Alumni & Friends, host headlined the Delta Gamma/Everson Family WHO BELIEVED IN YOU? Lecture on Ethics & Values. Read the story on p. 31. That’s a question I’ve been asking Budget Cuts national chairman of the American Heart alumni at gatherings around the country As you may know, the University is in Association; Alva “Jeanne” (Kingzett) Pfeiffer, over the past several months. My goal is to the middle of making deep budget cuts at ‘69, professor of public health nursing at get people thinking about those who’ve the direction of state lawmakers dealing the University of Minnesota; James “Jack” mentored and influenced them in profound with major reductions in revenue due to Muhs, ‘86, president & CEO of FedEx Trade ways. depressed oil and farm commodity prices. Networks; Lucy Dalglish, ‘80, dean of the Most often, the first people you think Campus units this spring were asked to Phillip Merrill College of Journalism at the of when pondering the question are, no submit plans to reduce their budgets by 12 University of Maryland; and Tim O'Keefe, ‘71, doubt, parents and other relatives. They percent. former CEO of the UND Alumni Association have been there cheering you on from the We at the UND Alumni Association & & Foundation. beginning. But as we start to grow our lives Foundation are committed to improving the Two outstanding young alumni will away from our families, it is often teachers campus experience for students. That can receive the Young Alumni Achievement and supervisors who become influential in be difficult when large cuts are required, Award: Aircorps Aviation owner Eric our development as adults. but our alumni and friends have made a Trueblood, ‘06, and manager of Global Trade In addition to some of my professors at tremendous impact on UND students and and Customs with Pandora Jewelry Julianne the University of North Dakota, the person the importance of philanthropy only grows “Jules” Kotrba, ‘07. who believed in me most at that time was during times like these. The awards will be presented during Earl Strinden, the Executive Vice President It is not our practice to plug budget the 101st Homecoming Celebration at and CEO of the UND Alumni Association holes with donor contributions. That model the Sioux Awards Banquet on Wednesday, and UND Foundation. Earl saw something is unsustainable over the long haul as a October 4. Please note this is a change in me that I did not see in myself when he return to previous state funding levels could from our usual Thursday schedule for hired me as I neared graduation. I learned so be years off. So we will continue to focus the banquet. Look for more details on much from him and now I am the leader of on our core tenets: student scholarships, Homecoming 2017 in the the next issue of the organization he did so much to nurture faculty and program support, and campus the Alumni Review. and build during his more than three improvements. All of these areas are critical Thank you for all that you do for the decades as CEO. to helping students succeed. University of North Dakota! How often do you get the chance to thank the person who believed in you at a Sioux Awards Sincerely, critical point in your life? I was privileged I am pleased to announce that five to sit down with Earl this winter and talk outstanding alumni have been chosen by about all the ways in which he influenced the UND Alumni Association & Foundation me more than 30 years ago. What a pleasure Board of Directors to receive our highest DeAnna Carlson Zink, ’86, CFRE it was to walk down memory lane with a honor, the Sioux Award. UND Alumni Association & Foundation CEO man who is arguably the greatest advocate They are Al Royse, ’72, ’73, ‘76, retired [email protected] the University of North Dakota has ever partner with Deliotte & Touche, former UND had! You can read an excerpt of that Alumni Association & Foundation chair, and conversation starting on p. 6. 4 | Alumni Review Spring 2017 FEATURE story RAIDING RAIDING THE DESIGN WORLD THE DESIGN WORLD UND MBA grad and former UND Athlete takes her career to the big show in the National Football League. By Kaylee Cusack t all started with the University field, the ice and the court, producing of North Dakota softball team’s everything from tickets to billboards. travel clothes. “She is everything you want in Cami Bennett didn’t like them. an employee in regard to work ethic, IAnd she decided to do something about reliability, talent and attitude,” said Kyle it. Doperalski, associate athletic director for “I was trying to think of a way to get external relations and Bennett’s former the coaches to let me help with that,” supervisor. “As an undergrad, she created recalled Bennett, a standout softball player professional graphics that we used on from Grants Pass, Oregon. “So I thought, all mediums, and it was clear she was an maybe I could tell them that’s what I’m extremely gifted designer.” going to school for. But then I thought, Doperalski so valued Bennett that well, maybe that is something I want to go when a full-time designer role with UND to school for,” she added with a laugh. Athletics opened up, he knew who Bennett’s appetite for branding to call. Bennett had just finished her and design led her to pursue a UND undergraduate degree and was involved undergraduate degree in marketing with in a summer internship with the Seattle a minor in graphic design, and ultimately Mariners of Major League Baseball. an MBA. “I thought if I’m going to be back Now, instead of designing t-shirts working at the University, I could go to for UND softball players and fans, she’s grad school,” Bennett said. “Once I had that Cami Bennett, '14, '16, poses with her parents tackling the graphics needs of the NFL’s thought, I couldn’t get it out of my head. before an Oakland Raiders’ game in 2016. Oakland Raiders. She says her big break I also knew I could be part of the logo came from her experiences at UND, where transition, so really, it was a no-brainer for she developed an eye for branding, a me.” ruthless work ethic and a stellar online Bennett served on the 13-person footprint. Graphic Identity Request for Proposal in my life,” Bennett recalled. “But it was “One of the biggest things that Evaluation and Recommendation Team one of those things that I realize now — if helped me — a sign of the times, I guess that selected SME Inc. as the firm to design I can do all that, then I feel like I can do — was my social media presence,” she UND’s new Fighting Hawks logo. She anything.” said. “I started following all of the designers became integral to the development and With two years of experience, a major that I came across and started posting my launch of UND Athletics’ new look. branding transition and an MBA in her own work. So then people started to see “She provided a unique perspective arsenal, it was only a matter of time before my work, and they liked it.” on that team because she would be the the Raiders came calling. one using the suite of marks the most and “I was happy for her and proud of her,” Scoring opportunities because she was a former student-athlete,” Doperalski said. “To be working in the NFL The path from the Kelly green and said Doperalski. is something that no one will ever be able white of UND to the silver and black of Between last-minute design work and to take away. The Raiders have two full- the Raiders was paved by opportunity, logo conference calls, Bennett was still time designers, so there are only about 65 beginning with a marketing internship advancing with another goal. positions like hers in the NFL. She is now at with UND Athletics. Bennett took what “Working full time plus grad school the top of her field.” AR she was learning in the classroom to the was probably one of the toughest times UNDalumni.org | 5 FEATURE story WHO BELIEVED IN YOU?

6 | Alumni Review Spring 2017 WHO BELIEVED IN YOU? Editor’s Note: In her State of the Foundation Address in August, UND Alumni Association & Foundation CEO DeAnna Carlson Zink asked this question: Who believed in you? Her answer was that, in addition to her parents, she found exceptional support as a UND student from two of her professors. And just as she was getting ready to graduate, she had a meeting with someone who would become her longtime mentor and boss, Earl Strinden, then Executive Director of the Alumni Association and CEO of the UND Foundation. Recently, she had a chance to talk with Earl about his influence and to thank him for believing in her all those years ago. What follows is an excerpt of that conversation. By Milo Smith, UND Alumni Review Editor Photos by Sam Melquist

UNDalumni.org | 7 Strinden Road Celebration Help us celebrate the dedication of Strinden Road, named for Earl Strinden and his wife, Jan. Gorecki Alumni Center 3501 University Ave. Grand Forks Thursday May 04 4:00 - 5:30 p.m.

DeAnna: So Earl, 1986, over 30 years ago. Can you believe it? Earl: Well, part of the thinking on it, number one, we didn’t Thirty years ago I walked into your office as just a kid off the farm, have the resources. We had to all pitch in. I take a part of it back from basically, trying to figure out what I was going to do with my life. my experience in the Marine Corps. In the Marines, everyone is first And you took the time to visit with me. You took a chance on me, and foremost a rifleman. And when something needs to be done, and I didn’t know at that point what a big influence and mentor you you all pitch in. were going to be for me. And you definitely believed in me, and set DeAnna: I did learn flexibility from you, too, because there was me up for success by being such a great mentor. always something new coming around the corner. Earl: Well thank you. I was looking for something when we Earl: We had a great time, and the most important thing is were hiring and putting young people on the staff. And part of that we fulfilled our missions. It was to build a greater and better the reason that I wanted to have students hired on is because I University of North Dakota. It was to make others feel important. thought they would not have acquired any bad habits. And it was And about the role they had played, and to be unselfish in paying an opportunity to bring them into the organization, and, oh my attention to others. So those were wonderful times. Some of our goodness, was it successful. And DeAnna, I tell you, the work you did programs became so successful that it created another problem. for the Alumni Association and then later on the Foundation is truly When the alumni would come back for our Alumni Days, they remarkable and something you can be very proud of. started coming earlier and earlier. DeAnna: Well thank you. That has a lot to do with lessons I DeAnna: And staying later and later. learned from you, and a couple of those lessons I know that you Earl: And staying later and later. So, it was a wonderful problem taught that you didn’t even know you were teaching. But you never to have, but I think back to the wonderful relationships. And it was asked us to do anything that you wouldn’t do yourself. Ever. You always for the staff, you and the others, not to use the individual were out there showing an example. You’d be moving tables and members of the alumni family to make ourselves feel important, but chairs. I think that was my first Alumni Days, that spring in ‘87. And to use ourselves to make these individuals feel important. And I think we walked into the room and you’re like, “I don’t like this setup. Let’s we pretty well accomplished that. move it.” And you were moving tables and chairs an hour before DeAnna: I think we did. And that was something else we we had people coming in. But you never asked us to do what you learned from you. I don’t know of anybody who did it better. You wouldn’t do. You weren’t just the CEO, you were a teammate of ours, making people feel important. You were so good at that. Talking to and that was a great lesson for me to learn early on. alumni and donors and friends, it was like they were the only person in the room, and how they were changing lives. And I still learn from that, and use that. You were so excellent.

8 | Alumni Review Spring 2017 Earl: You know, the alumni of this university, they’re special. They have a deep appreciation. The first public university founded in the Dakota Territory, six years before North Dakota became a state. And then in the 1890s, when they didn’t appropriate any money to keep the university going just enough to maintain the very few buildings, and the alumni came through with contributions to keep the university from closing. And that became its strength for the future. That became a part of a tradition that to this day, the alumni can be very proud of. DeAnna: You had a number of sayings over the years like DeAnna: Who believed in you, Earl? When you started out. I’ve “Leave the woodpile higher.” One of my favorite, though, was talked about you’ve believed in me, but who believed in you along “Running a marathon at a hundred yard dash pace,” or something your life journey? like that. That’s kind of the way you taught us to do that. That you Earl: I was in the hardware business, and there was a need to just keep going, and like you said, you made alumni and others feel make a change, and so I was thinking of what would I do for the good about that. future. But I had a family and a number of children. I’d served in the Earl: Well, thanks to you and the others who are so dedicated Legislature, had been on the city council. I’m not saying that to be in and enthusiastic. The other thing that we really stressed was any way bragging at all, but it’s just that I had a strong attachment to sincerity. So, I like to think along the way we just did a lot of things the community. And I was in the Legislature with Grace Stone, Lloyd right. Stone’s wife, and Lloyd was getting ready where he wanted to retire. DeAnna: I think so. And you were a great mentor in that. I [Editor’s note: J. Lloyd Stone became the first paid employee of the thank you for these 30 years that we’ve been together. And thank Alumni Association, who lead the organization from 1945 to 1974, you for making such a difference in my life, along with many others. when Earl took over as the top executive] So just out of, it seemed Earl: Well, you’ve proven yourself so many ways and so many like, thin air, he just asked me if I would want to become the new times, and thank you for that because we started something that executive vice president of the Alumni Association. We didn’t have we thought was going to be very important for future generations, a Foundation then. And doggone it, I wanted to stay in Grand Forks. and was also to be important for those who were there, so that they I wanted to stay in North Dakota. And so I accepted that offer. And I would know that they were part of something very special. You’ve appreciate very much the confidence they had in me, and that Lloyd fulfilled that, and thank you so much. AR asked me to come in and prepare to become the new executive when he retired. So that’s the way that happened.

UNDalumni.org | 9 FEATURE story THE VOICE

UND alum makes national name for herself as a contestant on hit NBC talent search. By Kaylee Cusak, UND Today staff writer

10 | Alumni Review Spring 2017 Golden/NBC Photo: Tyler ozy Hansen is a lot like many twenty-something Like many students, Jozy tried a few different majors while women. at UND, hunting for just the thing that would pair well with her She hits the drive-through once in a while. appetite for performance and public interaction. Communication She likes to splurge on a manicure. and marketing were a natural fit, and she found mentors who JShe enjoys a good made-from-scratch breakfast from her helped her personalize her university experience. hometown diner. “All of the teachers in the Communication Program were But lately, her twenty-something life has been different. The incredible. My advisor David Kiefel — he was super into music as drive-through cashier recognized her. The man shaping her nails well,” Jozy recalled. “As far as entrepreneurship and marketing, La recognized her. And when she made a recent stop at Darcy’s Cafe Royce (Batchelor) was really inspiring because of her passion for in Grand Forks, it was her turn to recognize someone looking back teaching and helping you grow and find your way.” at her. “A little old man was reading the paper with my face on it, Surreal experience and I was sitting right next to him. It was so weird!” Hansen said Jozy had to stay tight-lipped about much of her experience with a laugh. “It’s something like that that I’ve always dreamt of shooting “The Voice” in Los Angeles, but she was able to shed a having, and now that it’s happening, I just kind of giggle or cry little light on her audition process. because I’m so happy.” Truth is, this wasn’t her first time trying out. But a “no” the first Grand Forks native and 2014 UND graduate Jozy Hansen has time didn’t stop her, and she finally found herself on the televised hit the big time. blind audition stage. Hansen, who now goes by a professional name of Jozy “Something came over me that day,” she remembered. “I was Bernadette, launched into fame in mid-March with an appearance so excited, I wasn’t even nervous, which is very weird. I don’t get on NBC’s hit singing competition show “The Voice.” She wowed that nervous anymore, but I was so ready to go. I was like, ‘Give me judges Gwen Stefani and Adam Levine with her incredible the mic. Let’s go onstage — I’m ready.’” rendition of “American Woman”, and ultimately chose Gwen to So she hit the stage, with her family watching over her coach her through the upcoming vocal battle rounds. shoulder. “For them to be there for the biggest moment of my “Every day, I’m not even joking, I wake up and I’m like, ‘Wait, whole life was so surreal and so cool. It kind of gave me that is this my real life? Is this really happening?’” Jozy said. “It’s so feeling of, ‘You can do it. Your mom’s right there.’” Jozy added with cool, and I’m very blessed and fortunate to be able to have this a giggle. experience.” Then — she belted. She gave it her all. Gwen and Adam turned in their chairs. It was happening. North Dakota Beginnings “I collapsed. I literally had to catch my breath because I just On March 14, Jozy’s friends and family packed the Grand thought, holy cow. I really just made it on ‘The Voice,’” she said. Forks Ground Round where she worked in college to watch her “All the tryouts that I’ve tried out before and didn’t go so well, to take the national stage for her blind audition. A small handful that moment, and to wanting a dream so bad and for it to come already knew the outcome, but when those judges’ chairs turned true—there are no words to describe it.” to see Jozy — rocking a flowing floral ensemble from Grand Forks’ As Jozy continues to live out her dream, she wants other UND own Kittsona boutique — the celebration really started. grads — and small-town dreamers across the country — to move “It was one of the coolest days of my entire life. There’s past the bumps in the road, the rejections and the failures and just nothing better than your hometown supporting you and Grand keep going. Forks has done that, and far exceeded my expectations,” Jozy said. “Go after it. Whatever ‘it’ is, go after it,” she said. “Just because “I know it’s my journey, but it’s a Grand Forks journey as well.” you’re from North Dakota doesn’t mean you can’t make it big. I Jozy says her own Grand Forks journey has played a went through that on my Voice journey.” AR significant role in shaping the entertainer she has become. The small community atmosphere allowed her to be active with Editor’s Note: This story was written after Jozy was selected singing roles in church, Central High School and UND, where she following her audition. She was later knocked out of the was a member of the Women’s Chorus every year. competition in the first battle round. “My parents always instilled, ‘Get your education so you have that to fall back on if the music thing doesn’t work out.’ They were always supportive of me pursuing music as well as going to college,” she said.

UNDalumni.org | 11 FEATURE story THE VOICE OF THE PRAIRIE

12 | Alumni Review Spring 2017 THE VOICE OF THE PRAIRIE Dave Thompson has been a fixture at Prairie Public Radio since its start in the early '80s. By Milo Smith Photos by Andrew Cullen

ike an old friend, Dave Thompson, ’78, is there for you. During your morning routine, his is the calm voice of Prairie Public Radio News. It has been that way for more than 35 years. Thompson is the first,L and so far only, news director for PPR, having helped start the operation in the summer of 1981, just a few short years removed from his time as a UND student. At the time, Thompson said it was hard to think about spending decades on the job. “When you've got a new venture like that, it's very exciting,” he said. “It's also very scary because you don't know what's going to happen a year from now.”

From Polka to News at UND Thompson earned his degree from UND in Speech with an emphasis in radio and television. He also worked at the college radio stations, KFJM AM and FM, which would later become part of the Prairie Public Radio Network. “My first on-air job at KFJM was hosting two days a week the morning polka show called “Old Time.” It was a great experience. We did requests one day and then I did the two hour Sunday morning show. Now the interesting thing on Sunday morning, it was a transition between a progressive rock show, which was overnight, into polka, so it was a jarring thing at 6 in the morning.” Like most students with an interest in radio, Thompson

UNDalumni.org | 13 Dave Thompson, '78, behind the microphone at the Prairie Public Radio studio in Bismarck, North Dakota, where he has been news director since the station went on the air in 1981.

Prairie Public (starting at 5:30 in the morning), he also reports news stories from his home base in Bismarck, North Dakota. Thompson is especially known in the region for his coverage of North Dakota politics. “I love the issues and I also really enjoy the people,” said Thompson. “Everybody's got a different opinion, everybody's got their own things they bring to a legislative session, their own ideas, and I love talking to people. It doesn't matter which political stripe they are, I just love talking to people. If they've got a story to tell, I like their stories to be on our air.” “He’s just acknowledged to be very, very fair,” said Bill Thomas, Director of Radio. “People appreciate that he is not out to do gotcha kind of stuff. I’ve heard people just all across the political spectrum, from every different party, that they just really appreciate and feel like they get a fair shake with Dave.” Thomas, who has worked with Thompson since 1999, says listeners also benefit from Thompson’s near encyclopedic knowledge of North Dakota issues. “He knows his stuff,” said Thomas. That knowledge has been built up from years of working from 4:30 in the morning until the last story of the day is told. had aspirations to become a disc jockey. But he says as he took “It’s the way I work and I enjoy it,” said Thompson. “I often political science and journalism courses, he became interested in think that news is not a 9-to-5-type job. News does not follow radio news. any rules. It happens when it happens. Even though things His interest was cemented, he says, during the Flood of 1978. are scheduled, your schedule can go by the wayside really “I was working late night on a Friday night doing the news shift quickly. That's another thing that's exciting about this business and I called the then-mayor of East Grand Forks, Louis Murray, and because every day is different and every hour's different.” asked him what was new about the flood fight. He told me that If you are going to work all those hours, it helps to love they were going to close the Point Bridge and then he was going your job and there's no question Thompson does. to ask for the National Guard's help. He says there is nothing better than telling a person's “I was able to put that story together and I sent it to the story, whether they are a state lawmaker or a guy who quit Associated Press. That was the first time I saw my name on a byline smoking on Groundhog's Day and now likes to celebrate every on an Associated Press broadcast story and that kind of cemented February 2. it: 'This is what I really want to do. I want to do the news. I want to "I talked to this guy and we just had a great conversation talk to people.' I've done that since.” and then he volunteered that he was going to go to Gobblers Knob (home of Punxsutawney Phil in Punxsutawney, A Reporter's Life Pennsylvania). We did a live report from him when he saw the Dave Thompson’s byline has appeared on thousands of groundhog see his shadow. It was just great fun. Characters stories over the years. In addition to reading newscasts for really stand out to me, people you've interviewed."

14 | Alumni Review Spring 2017 Dave Thompson, '78, outside the Prairie Public Radio Studio in Bismarck, North Dakota, with coworkers Scott Prebys, Radio Host/Arts Producer, and Emily Guerin, Inside Energy Reporter.

Thompson cites the story as one of his favorites from more than 35 years on the air. Another story that stands out to him is his coverage of the 2011 funeral of a Bismarck Police officer, Sergeant Steve Kenner. "When he was shot and killed in the line of duty, they had a big funeral for him at the Bismarck Civic Center," Thompson said. "There were a lot of elements to it and I decided to do it just a straight sound piece. It ran about six and a half minutes. I intro'd and outro'd it. There was not my voice in the entire piece. I just let the sound tell the story." Thompson was recognized with a regional Edward R. Murrow Award from the Radio Television Digital News Association for that report.

Magic of Radio Thompson says he knew he wanted to work in radio ever since he got a transistor radio as a child and fell in love with what he heard crackling through that tiny speaker. “There’s a magic to radio,” he said. “I always tell the TV people, and I think they get sick of me telling it, television limits your imagination to what you see on the screen. Radio, Asked about his longevity, Thompson reflects on the you don't have the visuals, so your imagination will run wild. secret to working in the same job for more than 35 years. If you hear a good story with good natural sound, you can “I happen to love North Dakota. I've never lived put yourself there in that position. That's why when I do anywhere else, so maybe that's an unfair thing. I like Bismarck interviews, people will say to me, 'You want to go someplace a lot, growing up here, going through grade and high school quiet?' I'll say 'No. I want people to know that something else here and one year of college (Thompson attended Mary is happening around here.'” College, now the University of Mary, for one year before transferring to UND). I also like the people of North Dakota. "Greatest Asset" The thing that we have that other states don't have is really Director of Radio Bill Thomas says he often hears from truly an open process. listeners who tell him that Thompson is Prairie Public Radio's "Covering government is relatively easy in North Dakota "greatest asset." because people are open and people want to talk to you. "We always ask people what do you like about Prairie Besides, I can take a trip and go somewhere else and I can Public. His name comes up really often among those always come back because this is heaven.” AR comments as just something that people really appreciate," Thomas said. "He's like an old friend. He's in your house. In your car."

UNDalumni.org | 15 FEATURE story DEEP CUTS

Photo: iStock.com Deep Cuts State budget cuts force tough decisions at the University of North Dakota.

he state of North Dakota is facing a revenue 12 percent reductions. The March State Revenue Forecast, crisis — low oil and farm commodity prices though, revealed general fund revenues $46 million short in have combined to put a double-whammy on tax the two-year funding cycle that ends June 30 and $103 million receipts. At the start of the year, new governor Doug less for the 2017-19 biennium that begins July 1 than what was BurgumT inherited a $1.4 billion dollar budget shortfall that included in the January assumptions. It remains uncertain what has since only grown. Higher Education could have to cut 12 additional actions the Governor or Legislature will propose percent to 20 percent of its 2015-17 budget. to address these additional shortfalls. President Kennedy said University of North Dakota President Mark Kennedy has that he will continue to make the case for UND and higher been working closely with his Executive Council over the education throughout the session in an effort to limit any past months to find ways to address the challenging budget further demands for expense reductions. situation. Those plans are beginning to come into focus with the submission of preliminary budget proposals in March. Academic Units “Even though cutting 12 percent from every unit’s budget UND Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs Tom necessarily involves making unwanted choices, every effort DiLorenzo has been collaborating with college deans to craft was made to make sure these proposals were aligned with their initial budgets. the Strategic Plan for both the University as well as the units “I’m very pleased with the work the deans have done with themselves,” President Kennedy said. their faculty, staff and students to weave strategic priorities into A small increase in tuition was assumed in setting the this exercise,” DiLorenzo said.

16 | Alumni Review Spring 2017 The College of Arts & Sciences (A&S) Protecting student experience its 2017-18 budget by over $1.3 million has examined its offerings in graduate Student Body President Brandon Beyer as its contribution to the university-wide education to align with the college’s own has been working alongside deans and cuts being dictated by the state’s revenue strategic plan. As the school proposed division vice presidents to make sure that shortfall. Additionally, with UND’s move graduate teaching assistant (GTA) reductions have as little negative impact to the Summit League, more money will reductions, Dean Debbie Storrs said that in on students as possible. be needed to comply with the league’s the future, “the college will direct GTAs and “These reductions are being done minimum scholarship requirements. tuition waivers to graduate programs with out of necessity, and the direction of UND expects that the current changes high research potential, successful grant the University needs to be such that it will enable it to meet those additional activity, and nationally and internationally maintains its identity as the flagship higher scholarship expenses without having recognized creative activity.” education institution of North Dakota. to make further cuts next year. UND’s A&S also proposes finding ways That certainly can’t be done by ignoring athletics department expects to reinvest to innovate existing programs through the experiences that a student receives at any additional savings back into its reorganization or develop new UND,” Beyer said. women’s and men’s teams, with a primary interdisciplinary programs using current “We have been working with focus on gender equity, internal equity, faculty expertise to “respond to student Student Government and others to make and championship competitiveness. interest, demand and needs in the state.” sure students have the courses and “I have accepted the athletic director’s The College of Business and Public requirements they need to graduate on recommendation with the understanding Administration (CoBPA) will reduce faculty time,” DiLorenzo said. that it provides for investing in in some areas as opposed to making championship teams in a balanced staff reductions. CoBPA Dean Margaret School of Medicine and manner for both our women’s and men’s Williams said, “The instruction previously Health Sciences athletics programs,” said Kennedy. “This is a provided by tenure-track faculty can be painful step to take for all parties involved, The budget for the School of Medicine provided by lecturers and instructors. including me, but it is necessary given and Health Sciences (SMHS) is a separate Our decision not to cut staff in student today’s budget realities. My heart goes line item from the state funding for the rest support areas (advising and the Pancratz out to all those who are disrupted by this of the University of North Dakota. Career Development Center) supports change. We are proud of the way they In late March, the Faculty Academic our strategic plan for student success. have represented UND.” Council reviewed 90 percent budgets The decision to retain staff in the area UND will honor all athletics submitted by all SMHS departments and of development supports the pillar of scholarships for discontinued sports at units. The cuts amount to about $5 million our strategic plan that focuses on new/ their present equivalencies for returning in budget reductions. renovated facilities for our college.” student-athletes. Dean Dr. Joshua Wynne says there In harmony with the UND Strategic “This was a difficult decision. It’s a are still several unknowns, however, as the Plan focus on expanding research sad day when opportunities for student- Legislature moves toward its mid-April activities, the College of Education athletes are reduced,” said UND Athletics close: and Human Development intends to Director Brian Faison. “The University • What funding will the state provide? maintain its Ph.D. program offerings is going through campus-wide, state- • How much of a tuition increase will and begin phasing out Ed.D. program mandated budget cuts. As a part of the be allowed? support from its base funds. Dean Cindy University, we need to do what is in the • How many faculty and staff will Juntunen added that she is taking steps long-term, best interests of the University, accept voluntary separation? to reorganize the college to “support as well as the best interests of the athletics collaboration and interdisciplinary course department.” AR offerings, as well as reduce duplication Athletics (and costs) in instruction.” UND Athletics announced in late — Kaylee Cusak The University also expects savings March that it will discontinue its varsity with additional reporting by Milo Smith from taking buildings offline. Reduction women’s hockey and men’s & women’s in campus staffing through separations swimming & diving programs, effective at Editor’s Note: This issue of the Alumni and retirements as well as consolidation of the end of the 2016-17 academic year as Review went to print before the end of departments and sharing of services will part of the University’s ongoing budget the North Dakota Legislative session. create further potential for taking square restructuring efforts. The continuance of footage offline, reducing both operating the men’s golf program is contingent upon costs and existing deferred maintenance its successful fundraising efforts. for the future. In January, UND President Mark Kennedy announced that the athletics department would need to further reduce

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Who Believed in You? Brandon Brekke, ’15, shared his story of who believed in him in a YouTube video.

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18 | Alumni Review Spring 2017 Thank you, Donors! The College of Arts & Sciences shared this photo during Spirit Week in February. The UND Tour poster is filled with notes of gratitude to Jen (Peplinskie) Smith, ’96, says she A&S donors from students. fell in love with UND all over again after bringing her daughters on a college visit.

Dance Party UND alumni gathered in Bismarck to watch the UND Fighting Hawks Men’s Basketball team play in its first NCAA tournament ever with the hashtag #UNDProud.

UND Pride Doug Iverson was proud of his wife on International Women’s Day. Cpt. All Dressed Up Moranda (Flemmer) Iverson, ’09, is Beatrice Hill, ’14, shared this photo serving in Afghanistan. from the red carpet at the 56th annual University of North Dakota Feast of Nations.

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There was electricity in the air at the tipoff of the first-round NCAA basketball game between UND and the University of Arizona. UND won the Big Sky Conference regular season and the conference post-season tournament, qualifying for the NCAA tournament for the first time ever. The Fighting Hawks first round match-up with the Wildcats was watched by 1.4 million people.

20 | Alumni Review Spring 2017 President Mark Kennedy DEAR ALUMNI & FRIENDS This has been a tumultuous time at the University of North very difficult work that Dakota. There has been much to celebrate — the visit of the 2016 they did in developing winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction as part of the 48th Annual their recommendation. It is UND Writers Conference, research expenditures of $101.4 million, difficult to take these actions up over the previous fiscal year, the ninth consecutive title for the and to lose these sports, the John D. Odegard School of Aerospace Science aerobatic team, and dedicated coaches and staff, conference championships in men's and women's basketball to and the student-athletes add to the Big Sky championships in football and volleyball this who have represented us year, for example. But the celebrations have happened against so well. a backdrop of the necessity to cut $23 million for FY2018 from budgets already stretched after the University cut nearly $30 million Eye on the Horizon in 2016, thanks to a state economy that has been in a tailspin that is These have been predicted to continue. very difficult decisions impacting all aspects of the University. But Although the North Dakota Legislature is still meeting as this is they will help us weather these tough economic seas. Our sights written, it appears that the state appropriation for higher education are focused on the horizon, on the future. We will soon complete will be reduced by 20 percent. For UND, the anticipated reduction our strategic plan, and it will help chart our course to that future. in state appropriations plus the need to create a pool of dollars for Just one example: We have created the Institute for Unmanned strategic investments, offset to a limited degree by an anticipated and Autonomous Research to help us take the next big steps in small increase in tuition, means the state-funded portions of developing the unmanned aircraft systems enterprise. With this budgets across campus will likely be reduced overall by $23 million kind of forward thinking, we are demonstrating our ability to for each of the next two fiscal years — a total of $46 million. develop education and research opportunities that will help North To manage the anticipated decrease, units were asked to Dakota diversify and expand its economy and grow the talent pool prepare plans to reduce the state-funded portion of their budgets it needs. by 12 percent. The School of Medicine and Health Sciences, which To do that, we need to grow the University. We are committing has a separate appropriation through the state, reduced the state- $3 million out of the strategic initiative pool for marketing and appropriated portions of its budget by 10 percent. advertising. This includes a much-needed overhaul of the UND These cuts have been painful and are being felt across the website into a responsive site that will appeal to prospective University. Already, many positions have been eliminated and students, who more and more are basing decisions about what good, dedicated employees have learned they will lose their college to attend on what they see on their phones. We are also jobs. As a set of tools for helping to manage the reductions, the going through a rebranding process that will result in a digital University had offered voluntary separations and special retirement marketing and advertising campaign. At the same time, we are opportunities. More than 120 people applied for those programs. taking steps to invigorate the branding of the Fighting Hawks. We won't know for a few weeks yet how many will accept the We are also working to spruce up the campus from the Coulee to terms of the programs. There will almost assuredly be additional Columbia Road by taking down older buildings and houses that reductions in force. These will be on top of the 124 positions have outlasted their use; reinvesting in the College of Business eliminated through budget reductions in 2016. and Public Administration building, the Chester Fritz Library, and, Every facet of the University with state-appropriated dollars if students approve it next academic year, a renovated Memorial has been affected, and this includes the senior administration, Union, as well as upgrades to University Avenue. whose ranks are being cut by about 20 percent. Four senior To follow the progress of the University, I invite you to sign up administration positions are being eliminated, including three for the free UND Today at http://blogs.und.edu/und-today. associate vice presidents and one assistant vice president. This will There are exciting times ahead and much work to do to get be an additional challenge for the University, which operates much there. We will need everyone's help to create the University of like a city. In fact, if UND was a city, it would be the ninth largest in North Dakota that we hold in our collective vision. You, our alumni the state. and friends, are an essential part of the UND family and play a vital Another area that has been hard hit in the budget is role as we continue to build upon the strengths of this already Athletics. In keeping with the 12 percent cuts, I asked Athletics great university. I thank you for your efforts, and I look forward to for recommendations to reduce its budget by $1.3 million. working with you as we continue to build the premier flagship Athletics explored a number of options and scenarios, and in the university of the Northern Plains. end, they proposed eliminating women's hockey and men's and Sincerely, women's swimming and diving, This recommendation was made based on the need for significant budget cuts and the complex issues involved, such as Title IX compliance, league affiliation Mark Kennedy requirements, and the need to reinvest in other athletic programs. President I commend Athletic Director Brian Faison and his staff for the UNDalumni.org | 21 Emily Taylor shows off her CAMPUS news “lace” collar that she made out NEWS FROM AROUND CAMPUS of a bicycle tire inner tube.

Trash to Treasure TRANSFORMING TRASH TO TREASURE HAS EARNED EMILY TAYLOR A TRIP TO THE STAGECRAFT INSTITUTE OF LAS VEGAS. Photo: Jackie Lorentz

mily Taylor has used her costume design skills to nothing more magical than seeing student work come together become the first person from North Dakota to receive on stage. It’s important to take the audience on a journey.” a prestigious scholarship. Taylor chose UND because she could both act and design Taylor was one of 17 UND theatre arts students who costumes. She earned a bachelor’s degree in history from Minot recently traveled to Des Moines, Iowa, for the Region 5 State University before coming to UND for her Master of Arts in Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival. They theatre. ewon several competitions and awards, and Taylor was one of “Theatre is a very personal art form,” said Taylor. “I love seeing seven designers from the seven-state region to be awarded a both sides – the costume and acting – and I think that acting week-long scholarship to the Stagecraft Institute. makes me a better designer.” Taylor, a theatre master’s student from Bozeman, In addition to acting, she works as the costume shop Montana, crafted a “lace” collar from a bicycle inner tube and supervisor, teaching students to sew and working as a stitcher designed costume concepts for a production of "Antigone." and draper. Her work netted the prestigious scholarship, which offers in- “It’s like a professional shop,” Taylor said. She begins by depth theatre workshops and networking opportunities. drawing a costume, then developing a pattern and “draping” “I was so surprised when they announced my name,” muslin on mannequins to create a pattern. “I love designing and Taylor said. “And when they learned I was the first person making costumes.” from North Dakota to win the scholarship, they offered me Her favorite creation was Aunt March in "Little Women." two weeks instead of one.” She will take workshops on special “The hoop skirt, the corset, the huge bonnet — it was effects, or “fog, fire and smoke,” as she calls it, and lighting and wonderful to bring her to life,” said Taylor. She draped the pattern, technology this summer. stitched the costume, and played the character. Taylor’s concept, which used “trash” to create the post- Taylor likes upcycling and reusing, and said her love of apocalyptic look of the play, was a hit. sewing and upcycling is inspired by her mother, who makes “The judges like inspiration outside the box,” said Jessica upcycled bags. Ray, faculty member and costume designer in theatre arts. “A year ago, I made a dress from an old statistics textbook,” “They like costumes that use unusual materials and are Taylor said. AR aesthetically pleasing.” — Jan Orvik Costumes are important, said Ray. “From the moment UND Today writer we meet someone, we deduce a lot about their personality. Costumes give characters depth. They need clothing that supports their characters, or they are less believable. There is

22 | Alumni Review Spring 2017 Photo: Tyler Ingham Photo: Tyler Into the Poverty Line STUDENTS GET CRASH COURSE IN WHAT IT’S LIKE TO NOT MAKE ENDS MEET.

As part of a recent simulation hosted by the UND College of Nursing & Professional Disciplines, students were asked to assume varying family roles and maneuver the intricacies of making ends meet when there are not enough resources to go around.

niversity of North Dakota students received a crash As part of the simulation, students representing several course this winter in what it’s like to live in poverty and disciplines, including Nursing, Occupational Therapy, Physical how hard it is to recover from its downward spiral. Therapy, Psychology, and Nutrition & Dietetics, as well as others To make this point, the atrium area of the UND College from the College of Arts & Sciences and the School of Medicine & of Nursing & Professional Discipline’s Northern Plains Health Sciences, maneuver the intricacies of making ends meet Behavioral Research Center was converted into a make- when there is not enough resources in the family. shift city, complete with schools, a bank, a bus stop ticket Students were separated into different types of family uoffice, pawn shop and a transportation office. Here, students units in varying circumstances, including a newly unemployed assumed varying family roles. With very little money, their household, homeless families, seniors on disability and goal was to survive, and at the same time, care for their family grandparents raising their grandchildren. They were forced to units. work together and to navigate the various support networks to It may have been a simulation, but thanks to the amped keep the family together, care for their children, provide food and up stress levels provided by contracted role players and housing for their family and pay weekly bills. volunteers, and the real-world basis of the scenarios in play, “We try to mix the different (academic) disciplines of the whole thing was nothing short of mind-opening for UND students so they’re not just with their peers and others that they students. know,” Roberts said. “We want them to by really interdisciplinary The focus of the simulation is on increasing students’ with their family groups.” awareness and empathy for people living in poverty. This is a To facilitate learning in the roughly two hours that the significant problem in Grand Forks, where 25 percent of the simulation took place, every 15 minutes represented a month of people live in poverty, according to Jackie Roberts with the living in poverty. UND College of Nursing & Professional Disciplines. The entire experience was a memorable one for the “Our goal is for the students to really have a meaningful students, from undergrad to grad, as well as for the cross- experience, and maybe for them to develop more societal disciplinary faculty who participate as volunteers in the empathy toward people who live in poverty,” Roberts simulation, Roberts said. said. “I think we all have some empathy but this (poverty She added, “The more we bring faculty and students simulation) tends to really bring it out … and helps students together in an inter-professional manner to advance to understand what kinds of life circumstances may happen understanding of the people we serve, the more successful we to cause that and how hard it is to recover from living in are in the classroom and in our future practice.” AR poverty.” — David Dodds Maridee Shogren and Chris Harsell, with the UND UND Today writer Department of Nursing, helped Roberts coordinate the simulation. UND also contracted with the Community Action Partnership of North Dakota in Fargo to administer the simulation. UNDalumni.org | 23 CAMPUS news NEWS FROM AROUND CAMPUS

Harmonizing across language barriers

Photo: Jackie Lorentz Chinese students playing the string bass: Qianqian Wu (front right) and Zhiru Li take part in a joint rehearsal with UND music students. UND VISIT MAKES IT POSSIBLE FOR LOCAL MUSICIANS TO FIND SIMILARITIES AND BRIDGE DIFFERENCES WITH CHINESE COUNTERPARTS THROUGH MUSIC

musical exchange has students from UND and China the Shenzhen Middle School Symphonic Band, conducted by speaking the same language. Cheng Huang, from southern China. UND Music hosted 67 student musicians from China in “Students from different high schools and areas of China February for lessons and coaching, culminating in a concert at don’t often mix,” Guan said. “And it’s been a good experience for the Chester Fritz Auditorium. both bands.” “Music is a global language,” said Guanlu Guan, director The goal is to build more music exchanges on both sides aof the Peking University Affiliated High School Concert Band. of the ocean and to further UND’s goal of globalizing the “Harmonizing together unites people.” campus, said Nariaki Sugiura, assistant professor of piano at the The students, members of the Peking University Affiliated UND Music Department. He invited the Chinese students to High School Concert Band and Shenzhen Middle School UND, and said he and Guan became friends when he visited St. Symphonic Band, visited and played at Grand Forks Central Olaf College in Northfield, Minnesota, for a guest piano master and Red River High Schools, rehearsed with the UND Wind class. Ensemble and other groups, and took music lessons from UND Sugiura, who is also the music department’s director of faculty members. international recruitment for Asia, said the visit is about more The highlight of the visit was the International Wind than music, and he hopes some of the students choose to Ensemble concert with students from China, Red River High attend UND. School and UND which featured both Chinese and American “We make sure that Chinese Studies, the International composers. Centre and local high schools are involved,” he said. “Everyone “I really learned a lot in these three days,” said Nongzhou can benefit.” Guo, a student from Beijing who took a part in this trip as a Sugiura has taken UND students to Shanghai, and the pianist and percussionist. “It was like absorbing a whole year’s music department is working to build a joint master’s program worth of learning materials. It was a quite intensive three-day there with East China Normal University. He also hopes this session at UND, and it will become one of the most memorable exchange will inspire UND students to visit other nations and trips for the rest of my life.” see more of the world. It is a special trip for the Chinese students, many of whom “Music unites people with every note,” said Sugiura. “There had never seen snow, said Guan. is no language barrier when playing music.” AR “It’s a tradition for our band to go abroad every one to two years,” he said. “We usually visit Japan, Europe and the United — Jan Orvik, States.” This time, his group was combined with a second school, UND Today writer 24 | Alumni Review Spring 2017 President Kennedy and College of Engineering & Mines Dean Hesham El-Rewini welcome students to the Big Ideas Gym kick-off event in the new Collaborative Energy Complex. What's the B.I.G. Idea? Photo: Tyler Ingham THE SKY’S THE LIMIT FOR NEW ‘IDEA FACTORY’ AT THE COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING & MINES

t’s a BIG challenge – with a big payoff. Student and faculty judges will award $2,000 in scholarships each From thinking about the future to solving the problems month, donated by the Edson and Margaret Larson Foundation. of today, the Big Ideas Gym (BIG) is a new place for students in The BIG initiative is managed by Brian Tande, associate professor the UND College of Engineering & Mines (CEM) and others to and chair of chemical engineering. imagine ideas and make them happen. And, along the way, win “I’m interested in entrepreneurship and innovation,” said Tande. i$2,000 in scholarships. “Giving students these skills sets us apart. We want UND engineering to “Students can be creative and discover their passions here,” be known for leadership skills and an entrepreneurial attitude. The Big said Trevor Lachance, a senior civil engineering student and chair Ideas Gymnasium will make this happen.” of the Engineering Student Advisory Board. “It unlocks more Tande said that he sees the initiative as a campus-wide activity. opportunities for us to learn. The new lab spaces are invaluable.” “We want art, business, medical, business, students from all majors, to Designed as an “idea factory,” the BIG, in the CEM’s recently work together and innovate,” he said. completed Collaborative Energy Complex (CEC), enables “This is a fun, interesting way for students to use their engineering students from across campus to collaborate, solve problems and skills,” said Michael Mann, Chester Fritz Distinguished Professor of envision the future. An addition to the CEM, the CEC contains Chemical Engineering and executive director of the UND Institute for new labs and classrooms, along with collaborative areas, that are Energy Studies. “It offers an opportunity to work with students who are open to students across campus. outside their discipline, and outside of engineering.” “Why are we here?” asked Hesham El-Rewini, CEM Merry Tesfu, a junior in petroleum engineering, is thinking about dean, during a kickoff event in January. “We are here at UND taking part in the competition. “I’m excited to see the outcome,” she Engineering because we want to improve the quality of life for said. “It will change views and perspectives of engineering.” people. We want to make a difference and solve problems. We are proactive in thinking what the future will be like, and we try The sky is the limit to make it happen. This is why we become engineers.” “What Hesham and the college have done is unique,” said Steve “I love the idea of the Big Ideas Gymnasium,” said President Burian, ’90, ’92, vice chair of the CEM Executive Board. “You are fortunate Mark Kennedy at the kickoff. “UND is the place where big ideas to have a leader who is challenging you and giving you an opportunity should come from. We’re taking on global challenges.” to be the best and brightest.” The new labs and classrooms, as well as the BIG competition, are Imagining the future for students to examine and imagine the future, said El-Rewini. The challenge? Each month, up to eight teams of four “In class, you work within constraints and for grades,” El-Rewini said. students will compete to find innovative ways to solve “Here, you have safe space without constraints. The sky is the limit.” AR a problem. The February challenge is to develop a novel application for Unmanned Aircraft Systems. Students will use — Jan Orvik the BIG competition to meet and develop ideas, then produce UND Today writer YouTube videos that explain their solution to the challenge. UNDalumni.org | 25 CAMPUS news NEWS FROM AROUND CAMPUS

UND President Mark Kennedy addresses a gathering at the 10th Annual UAS Summit & Expo, held in August 2016 in Grand Forks. Kennedy believes UAS research and innovation, which are taking place at UND, could be key in helping North Dakota diversify its economy. Photo: Jackie Lorentz More than ‘Oil and Soil’ UND EXPERTISE IN UNMANNED SYSTEMS, DATA ANALYSIS COULD HELP NORTH DAKOTA DIVERSIFY ECONOMY

niversity of North Dakota President Mark aviation university in the country. That’s where it all began.” Kennedy stresses that he’s a pro-oil-and-soil guy. Kennedy said more — not less — investment in this But, Kennedy says, when it comes to diversifying surging area of technology makes sense for North Dakota, the state’s economy away from wide swings in oil and especially in a down economy. wheat prices, the future lies elsewhere with industries Tom Ford, head of the local Base Realignment Impact in which UND already has a strong foothold. Committee, says that UND’s aviation legacy already has “UND had a bit of a hand in helping to spark the had a major economic impact on the region and state. ulast oil boom, and we’re as likely to be the ones to When the Grand Forks Air Force Base lost its KC-135 help spark the next as any because of our research tanker mission in 2005, there was fear that Grand Forks on extracting that energy at a lower cost with less eventually would lose the entire base, which in its prime environmental impact,” Kennedy told a gathering of had a $600 million annual impact on the economy, Ford UND alumni and friends in Bismarck this winter. “But said. if you’re really going to think broadly about what a Within one year of the lost tanker mission, a new university does for a state, particularly a state that has focus arose at the base: drones. About the same time, become overly dependent on oil and soil, we need UND was named as a U.S. Department of Defense Center universities like the University of North Dakota to of Excellence for UAV Education, now called the Center for diversify the economy. UAS Research, Education and Training. “Our goal is to be the chief opportunity engine “UAS technology was starting to take off, and the Air for the state of North Dakota. We are the ones that can Force was the main user of that emerging technology,” nurture economic diversity.” Ford said. “North Dakota was looked at as a possible test Kennedy pointed squarely to opportunities that site (for that technology), and part of that was because we exist in North Dakota because of the pioneering efforts had a renowned aviation school at UND.” in unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) at UND. “Why is the UAS industry here in North Dakota?” Kennedy quizzed the gathering. “Sometimes people forget that … it’s here because we are the No. 1

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Big business When Matt Dunlevy, ’10, was looking to start a new business a few years back, the UND alumnus saw a major opportunity in the UAS industry because of the support he found around UND and in North Dakota. Today he’s president and CEO of Grand Forks-based SkySkopes, a UAS service company that specializes in aerial inspections. “One of the reasons we’re able to thrive is being able to rely on the education our UAS pilots are getting from Matt Dunlevy, ’10, (center), and Cory Vinger, ’16, (right) talk with U.S. Air Force Col. Paul Young UND,” Dunlevy said. (left) from Lackland (Texas) Air Force Base, at the 10th Annual UAS Summit & Expo held in August in And as Dunlevy proves, diversifying Grand Forks. an economy with unmanned technology doesn’t mean oil and soil aren’t still part of the equation. Business has been so General Atomics in the new Grand Sky “Do we want to hold the data here and good for his UND spin-off that he recently UAS Business and Aviation Park. Located then ship it off to California so other opened an office in Minot, North Dakota, adjacent to the Grand Forks Air Force Base, companies can make all the money near the oil-rich Bakken Formation of the park is the first of its kind in the United figuring out what’s in it? Why don’t we do western North Dakota. States. it here?” “UAS can be used in the oil industry “UND will be an asset to them,” said With so much raw data being for asset inspections — pipelines, rigs, Nick Flom, ’01, director of the Northern collected in the state through UAS, he said pump jacks, all that,” Dunlevy said. “Using Plains UAS Test Site at UND. “Everybody there would be a massive demand for data UAS instead of traditional inspection feeds off of each other. It’s like a cluster.” scientists in North Dakota. methods saves the oil industry on the “It’s the driving force behind all of this mandated inspection costs that they have So much data advancement nowadays,” Desell said. “Of to pay, no matter what.” President Kennedy said the UAS all the industries that can help drive our Dunlevy’s company also is involved industry is built around collecting data. economy, I think this is potentially one of in precision agriculture, which is another And with each terabyte collected, there is the biggest.” AR breakthrough market for UAS growth in a need to store, secure and process it into — Brian Johnson, UND Today writer North Dakota. actionable information that clients can SkySkopes is busy working with the use. However, many UAS companies doing utility industry, inspecting power lines business in North Dakota send that data to in a collaboration with Israel-based Elbit places like Boston, Austin, Texas, and Palo Systems and Xcel Energy. Alto, California, for analyzing. The project was a good fit for Elbit That’s a trend that needs to be Systems, which had been looking at the reversed, Kennedy said. commercial possibilities for its Hermes 450 “We want them to be keeping it right UAS platform. That opportunity evolved here in North Dakota,” Kennedy said. out of Research ND, a state program According to UND computer scientist connecting businesses with university Travis Desell, that’s where the gold is — researchers. and the jobs. UND and UND-affiliated UAS “There is real potential to build entities are collaborating with industry a thriving industry around getting giants such as Northrop Grumman and information out of that data,” Desell said.

UNDalumni.org | 27 UND grad student Andrew Barnas holds a CAMPUS Post-it note, on which he illustrated his research news of a drone flying over the Canadian habitat of NEWS FROM AROUND CAMPUS snow geese and polar bears. Barnas put the 3-by-3-inch drawing on social media and it went viral, with others piggybacking on his idea of sharing research in its simplest form.

Photo: Jackie Lorentz Power of the ‘Post-it’ UND BIOLOGY GRAD STUDENT’S TWITTER HASHTAG TREND GOES VIRAL

hen UND Biology graduate student Andrew kind of complicated writing is common in his field. Barnas gets bored or frustrated, he reaches for a “You’re just going to lose readers by making your pen and paper. writing really complicated,” Barnas said. “You should “I doodle. I’m not sure if that qualifies me as an be able to take your idea and condense it down to its artist,” the British Columbia native said, a small sticky simplest form. And what’s simpler than a Post-it? Just put note drawing resting on the notebook before him. it on a Post-it note and work from there.” w He may not be confident in his sketching abilities, So Barnas drew his own research on a three-by-three- but Barnas has recently learned a thing or two about inch square of paper — a drone flying over the Canadian the viral opportunities of social media. With one habitat of snow geese and bears. He included the tweet of a research-based drawing and the hashtag straightforward question: “How does wildlife respond to #PostItNoteScience, he set off a trend within the global UAV surveys?” After snapping a photo and adding a couple science community. of tags and hashtags, he let the tweet fly. “It’s a little overwhelming,” Barnas laughed. Some of Barnas’ colleagues found it to be a fun idea, The idea of #PostItNoteScience hatched out of and began to doodle and tweet their own research. Then, exasperation. Barnas was reading a research paper #PostItNoteScience exploded. for class when he came across a passage that was weighed down in wordy scientific jargon. He said this

28 | Alumni Review Spring 2017 “First it was other people in wildlife, then the chemists and the physicists started putting their stuff out. It all happened so fast, and the rate at which it spread was just incredible,” Barnas said. Within a few days, the hashtag had gone global, with scientists tweeting from as far as South Africa, Australia, and much of Europe. A week after his initial tweet, at least 250 scientists had doodled and shared their research. Ibis — the International Journal of Avian Science — and the Royal Science Institute in London jumped in by retweeting their favorites. Even Barnas’ graduate advisor, UND Assistant Professor of Biology Susan Felege, took a crack at her own research art. “It forced scientists like me to think about what we do and how could we make it something anyone could understand,” Felege said. “In a day and age when science is so important to The experience shaped the #PostItNoteScience like an extreme version decisions we need to make — and with development of an undergraduate class of the three-minute thesis — designed for science seeing a lot of reduced funding in Science Communication that Gilmore 10-second consumption — you’d really — scientists sometimes struggle with taught last spring. He said more and more better have your key message in there.” communicating what we find to broader universities across the country are offering Although Barnas knows his Twitter audiences, and even why it is important. science communication training in the fame won’t last forever, he’s glad Anything we can do to reach broader non- form of classes, workshops, or certificate that #PostItNoteScience is starting a science audiences is going to be key.” programs. conversation — and making an impact. Effectively telling the story of “A lot of our grants that fund the “This hashtag is not important by itself. science is a professional interest of research by UND students and faculty are It’s a part of a bigger picture of scientists Matthew Gilmore, associate professor of paid with taxpayer dollars, so I think it’s our wanting to communicate their research atmospheric sciences at UND. In 2015, obligation to at least try to communicate and their stories,” Barnas said. “If you can UND’s Office of Instructional Development the importance of our research,” he said. just reach one or two people and help helped fund Gilmore’s participation in a Gilmore is collaborating with them learn something interesting, then one-week boot camp hosted by the Alan Associate Professor of English Chris Nelson that’s mission accomplished.” AR Alda Center for Communicating Science. to bring an event called Three Minute The workshop used improvisation and Thesis (3MT) to UND. The competition — Kaylee Cusak, UND Today writer storytelling exercises to force scientists tasks graduate students with presenting to simplify their message without losing their research in just three minutes using accuracy. only one static visual aid. They are judged “What they told us is it’s not about on how clearly and concisely they can dumbing it down, it’s about making it explain their research in 180 seconds while simpler and starting on the same level as capturing and maintaining the attention of your audience,” Gilmore said. “You’re trying the audience. to put yourself in their shoes and realize “It really forces you to get to the how you would feel if this wasn’t your area essence. As researchers, we love to get lost of expertise and you were seeing it for the in the details,” Gilmore said. “If we treated first time.”

UNDalumni.org | 29 UND Master of Public Administration student Nick Jensen recently went to New York City CAMPUS news for an international policy contest for which he NEWS FROM AROUND CAMPUS was paired with three Ivy League students. His team took first place and he was named MVP.

Rising to the Top UND MPA STUDENT AND UND ALUMNI ASSOCIATION & FOUNDATION DIRECTOR OF DEVELOPMENT BRINGS HOME PUBLIC POLICY PRIZE.

Photo: Jackie Lorentz

ND students can hold their own ­­— and win — picture led to his success and was one of the reasons he was against students from around the nation and the chosen to represent UND. world. At the competition, teams of 16 students developed “Once we started, I knew I could compete at this policies to impact food security around the world. Those level,” said Nick Jensen. “I knew I had something to choices were put into a simulator that mimicked 20 years’ bring to the table.” worth of real-world scenarios, including floods, disasters, u The Master of Public Administration student’s droughts, and more. They were further divided into groups team took first place at the Network of Schools of of four, and Jensen was elected to lead his group, which Public Policy, Affairs and Administration (NASPAA) focused on Southeast Asia. Student Simulation Competition at Columbia “We looked at three issues,” Jensen said. “Are nations University in New York City. His team also took runner- growing enough food? Is it affordable? Is it nutritious?” up in the world competition where they competed “I was lucky that my professors and classes gave against seven other universities across the globe. His me insights and I understood ag policy,” said Jensen. “I subgroup of four, which he led, took MVP. know what it’s like to grow food, to have policies that are “As my wife joked, we had 12 hours to solve world sustainable for family farmers.” hunger,” said Jensen, who grew up in Cavalier and Jensen, who works as a Director of Development Grand Forks, North Dakota. for the UND School of Law while pursuing his MPA, used The students were chosen from universities information from a political science class to develop a across the globe to compete in a one-day immersive computer model to track indicators and analyze impacts of computer simulation that challenged them to different decisions. That allowed his team to model different achieve food security, improve nutrition, and promote policy decisions and their consequences. sustainable agriculture by 2030. “Knowing how to produce a computer model gave us a “As a farm kid from North Dakota, I was a bit of big leg up on the competition,” Jensen said. an outlier in New York City,” Jensen said about his This is the third time UND has taken part in the NASPAA experience, adding that students on his team came competition. Harsell said the NASPAA makes information from Harvard, Carnegie Mellon University, Princeton from the contest available to universities, and said UND will and Yale. “By lunch, I knew I was on par with anyone. I look at integrating the information into the classroom. thought, ‘I can play with these guys, and I can win at “Our students are well-equipped to compete at the this level.’ That was because of my education at UND.” global level,” said Harsell. “They have a good understanding “Nick’s North Dakota roots helped him to shine of public policy, statistics, executive implementation, and and to compete against Ivy League schools,” said policy analysis.” Dana Harsell, associate professor of political science Jensen agreed. and public administration and director of the MPA “I was proud to represent UND,” he said. “I’ve been program. fortunate to have the professors and classes that gave me “He knows agricultural policy, food security, he the ability to do research and analytics. I credit North Dakota understands public policy, legislative and executive values and the UND MPA program.” AR processes,” Harsell said. And, he added, Jensen’s steady, consistent approach and ability to look at the big — Jan Orvik UND Today writer 30 | Alumni Review Spring 2017 Ethics in an Unethical World ABC CORRESPONDENT AND “WHAT WOULD YOU DO?” HOST JOHN QUIÑONES FEATURED AT DELTA GAMMA/EVERSON FAMILY LECTURE IN VALUES & ETHICS

ohn Quiñones has been all over the world — literally from ripe with gang violence and crime. Amid poverty and social the North Pole to the South Pole — but the ABC News uncertainty, he gained a strong sense of values through his parents. correspondent made his first trip to North Dakota in “My mother — she was the most compassionate person I’ve ever March. known in my life,” Quiñones said. “Our door was always open to abused He took in the culture of Greater Grand Forks with a dinner women and runaway kids and wounded animals. When we would ask at Whitey’s and a mealtime discussion of the 1997 flood with his her why, she would say, ‘Mijo, my son, qué harías tu?’ which in Spanish jhosts. means, ‘What would you do if you were in their shoes?’” But his true Grand Forks welcome happened when he took Quiñones didn’t learn English until he started school at age 6, and the stage at UND’s Chester Fritz Auditorium and met a flood of faced racism all the way through graduation. applauding fans. “My own teachers would say, ‘John, that’s a wonderful thing that “I have just one word for you: uffda!” Quiñones said with his you have this dream of someday being a TV reporter, but we think you signature smile, bringing another roar from the crowd. should try woodshop or metal shop or auto mechanics.’” Quiñones said. Hardly a seat was bare for the Delta Gamma Foundation/ “I wanted to go to college, and my own teachers saw me and they did Everson Family Lecture in Values & Ethics, with hundreds there to what people do on my show, ‘What Would You Do?’, and they judged hear from the man who has brought the conversation of ethics me by the color of my skin and the accent in my voice.” into American living rooms since 2008, when Quiñones hosted Quiñones didn’t let anyone slow him down and ultimately the first episode of ABC’s “What Would You Do?” enrolled in college and attended graduate school at Columbia The hidden camera program creates an uncomfortable University in New York, one of the best journalism schools in the public situation of wrongdoing — abuse, racial attacks, etc. — country. He used his education and other learning opportunities to and documents how passersby react. land a television reporting job in Chicago following graduation. Do they step in? Or do they walk on by? From there, his career took off. Quiñones explained that this kind of journalism is just one Operations and supply chain management major Caitlyn Vang way to illuminate corruption and human rights violations that said she found inspiration in Quiñones’ story. happen everywhere in America. “I feel like my family can relate to it. My parents grew up in poverty “I think when we do our job right as reporters, those are the and they emigrated here,” Vang said. “My dad came from nothing kinds of stories we should be telling,” Quiñones said. and he made something of himself. My parents are people I find very “I thought it was just amazing. I had watched the show inspirational, and they pushed me and my brothers and sisters to go to when I was younger and I was a bit star struck at first,” said college.” sophomore music education major Maria Muske from Fairfax, Students say they learned something about themselves from Minnesota. “I got a little emotional during parts of it, because Quiñones through the course of the evening. “It’s okay if we’re scared it was amazing to see how far he had come from his small to do the right thing, but it makes it even more amazing when we do,” background.” Muske said. And with a standing ovation to top off the night, Grand Forks Humble start taught Quiñones a little something — the value of hospitality. AR Quiñones shared his story of growing up in a family of Spanish-speaking migrants in San Antonio, Texas, a community — Kaylee Cusack, UND Today writer UNDalumni.org | 31 THIS IS YOUR Legacy FAST TRACK TO SUCCESS

Fast Track to Success UND’s High Performance Center signals growth for track and field programs ntil this year, the University of North Dakota had championship, as well as other teams in the area. not hosted an indoor track and field meet since “We rested about half our team because half the people need 1985. Thanks to the new High Performance Center on to compete, half need to rest, but that's the nature of a tune-up campus, that 32-year hiatus ended in February. meet,” he said. “It's the last chance going into the conference meet UMore UND home meets are sure to come, just like the records and there are different needs for different people.” that have fallen under head coach Kevin Galbraith’s six-year tenure. The High Performance Center was completely donor-funded And, just like those fallen records and the team’s recent success, the and officially opened last winter. It provides a state-of-the-art home addition of the HPC marks a new chapter for Fighting Hawks Track for UND’s track and field programs to train, as well as for other & Field. teams, like football, to practice no matter the weather. “It's a complete change in everything we do,” Coach Galbraith Galbraith’s programs have been training in the HPC for just said. “[The HPC] allows us to do the things that we need to do and over a year and already the impact is being felt across the program. when we need to do it. And to host meets, you almost can't put a A week before the UND Indoor Tune-up, the Fighting Hawks came value on it, it's so great.” away from the South Dakota State Indoor Classic with 30 new The High Performance Center hosted the UND Indoor Tune- personal- or season-best marks across the roster. up on February 18, one week before the Fighting Hawks headed to “That's a staggeringly huge number,” Galbraith said. “The the Big Sky Conference Indoor Championship. Galbraith called the training facility is having an impact and will continue to do so.” tune-up a success for helping UND get ready for the conference Most important, the track & field teams have been able to turn

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that progress into results. At the Big Sky Indoor Championship, junior “We had a lot of alumni and local people not only as spectators, thrower Katelyn Weber broke the school record in the shot put on her but several people volunteered as officials to help us put on the way to being named Big Sky champion. Kyley Foster broke her own meet,” Galbraith said. “That’s just a great thing. We’ve gotten a lot of school record in the pole vault to finish third. Molly Griep and Nolan help and a lot of positive responses.” Hoveland also finished on the podium in the weight throw and the When those bleachers are installed, hosting meets will high jump, respectively. undoubtedly become a staple of the High Performance Center. With so much growth already for the program in the last year, And, if the experience for fans is anything like what it’s been for the what does the High Performance Center signal for the future? athletes and staff in the track and field program, those who come out “It means that we have a chance to continue to get better,” to cheer on the Fighting Hawks are sure to enjoy it. Galbraith said. “We've made some progress, but we can continue to “I can tell you, even after a year, every time I walk in there, it never do more just because of the tools that we need and training we can gets old,” Galbraith said. “That’s one of the best facilities in the nation do when the weather is somewhat uncooperative.” and that’s not a stretch. It’s pretty amazing, every day.” AR Galbraith noted that the response from the community has been a big positive, which should be a big help moving forward as — Gabriella Fundaro UND looks to fund new bleachers for permanent seating inside the HPC.

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Circle Victoria Braund, M.D. & Michael Mercury, Ph.D. The Legacy Circle includes donors who have Richard D. Clay indicated they plan to give to the UND Foundation Karen & Randy Kreil through their wills. Members of this circle have Rick & Lori Lee pledged to have their legacies live forever at the William Leier & Teri Brackenbury Leier University of North Dakota. Shelley Williamson

UNDalumni.org | 35 THIS IS YOUR Legacy CREATE THE FUTURE OF UND

Meet a Student Photo: Sam Melquist Carlie Scheer Hometown: Fisher, Minnesota Area(s) of Study: Nursing with a minor in Psychology Anticipated Graduation Date: May 2019

Why UND? Who believed in you? UND has been my first choice since I moved to the area in fourth My parents were always my biggest supporters. My mom said grade. We went to hockey games when I was younger, and I fell in that anything I chose to do is great. My dad pushed me. Whenever love with the energy. Later, I decided that I wanted to go into Nursing I had doubts about being able to do something, he would ask, and it became apparent that UND was the best choice. "Why isn't it possible for you to do that? You can do anything you want." They did whatever they could to help me reach my goals, and Dream career continue to every day. My dream career is to be a CRNA (certified registered nurse anesthetist). I am not really sure what setting I would like to ultimately This is my legacy. work in, but hopefully it is something with children. After Nursing school, I plan to work in an ICU for one or two years, and go back to school to become a CRNA. How UND is helping me realize my dream I go to UND by means of a scholarship that was provided to me The support system within UND is amazing! With UND behind by the UND Foundation. I am so overly grateful for my scholarship, me, I can do whatever I put my mind to. The alumni center is currently and it has encouraged me to want to be an alumni donor when I helping me get in touch with a UND alum who went to school to get older. UND does wonderful things, and I want to help other kids be a CRNA. My hope is that I can get some good advice as to how to attend this amazing school without the worry of cost. accomplish my career goals as quickly as possible. There are so many UND is a wonderful school, and day in and day out it proves that people here to help me that I didn't even know about. it is the right place for me.

36 | Alumni Review Spring 2017 Enduring Impact WITH WELL OVER $1 MILLION IN SUPPORT FOR STUDENTS AND CHARACTER-BUILDING ACTIVITIES ACROSS CAMPUS, THE MYRA FOUNDATION, WITH NORTH DAKOTA FARMLAND AS ITS MAIN ASSET, HAS MADE AN INDELIBLE MARK ON UND STUDENTS.

ore than 600 students from Grand Forks County In 2016, the Myra Foundation made 52 grant awards schools have been impacted by the Myra totaling $412,151. This support includes scholarship and Foundation since the first scholarships were arts support to the University of North Dakota, but also granted in 1971. provides important funding to nonprofits throughout the “It’s important that local students realize they City of Grand Forks and surrounding Grand Forks county. don’t have to go far to get a great education,” said John “We take our charge of carrying out the mission mBotsford, current president of the Myra Foundation, “and of the Myra Foundation very seriously, but it’s also we are pleased to assist.” rewarding and fun,” Botsford said. “We try to help But the Myra Foundation’s connection to the organizations that need a helping hand when funding University of North Dakota runs deeper than the nearly is tight – whether it’s the only way they can sustain their 50 years of loyalty and support. In 1941, when the operations, or they need a final boost to complete a foundation was first established, UND President John project. It’s been a good way to make friends!” AR West was a member of the advisory council. In the years — Muriel Kingery since, each of the five foundation presidents has been a UND graduate – Carrol Day, ’31, ’32, Arthur Stokes, About the Myra Foundation ’35, Edward Gillig, ’47, Alan Warcup, ’58, ’60, and John John Myra came to North Dakota in 1883 to seek his Botsford, ’76. fortune. He lived for a time in Arvilla before moving to In addition to the scholarship program, the Myra Emerado and established a successful farm equipment Foundation has provided many grants to support the arts and lumber business and began acquiring farmland and at UND, including the Steel Drum and Pride of the North lending to it to farmers. Following the Great Depression, bands, the UND Writers Conference, and the Chester Fritz Myra was one of the largest landowners in the Red River Auditorium. Valley. “The Myra Foundation has been critical in helping us Myra outlived his family, so he determined in his will be nationally competitive,” said Wesley Smith, Assistant that his estate be used to create the Myra Foundation to Professor of Art and Design. support charitable, character building and educational Myra Foundation support provided for the creation purposes. It was the first private charitable foundation of the Myra Fine Arts Kiln Yard and Foundry where UND of its kind in North Dakota. The original estate was art students are exposed to different techniques through valued around $400,000, but to date the foundation has the wood kiln, soda kiln, ash injection kiln, and outdoor granted out more than $8 million. In fact, the trustees kiln facility. award more than $400,000 each year now. “As part of UND, we don’t qualify for many of the “I’ve grown up alongside this foundation,” said traditional arts grants, and as a non-academic unit, we John Botsford. “My father, Vernon Botsford, was hired don’t qualify for any academic or university type grants,” as the first farm manager in 1946 to break the sod and said Betty Allan, director of the Chester Fritz Auditorium. convert the prairie into productive farmland. Today that Grant funds from the Myra Foundation made it possible land is rented out to six families, some are second and to update and renovate the auditorium’s green room, third generations of the original renters’ families. The a space used by every performer who comes to the relationships have been long and fruitful.” building. “It was an embarrassing space, but has turned into a room we are proud to share with everyone,” Allan said. UNDalumni.org | 37 ALUMNI news UPDATES FROM AROUND THE WORLD

Remember1950s when, in 1953, Dr. A.M. Rovelstad, head of the department of Classical Languages, celebrated his 50th year of teaching?

1953 John Linfoot, ’53, ’55, has been named a 2016 Top Doctor in Lafayette, Calif. Dr. Linfoot is an endocrinologist and nuclear medicine specialist at the Diabetes and Endocrine Institute in Lafayette.

1959 James L Johnson, ’59, ’63, has been awarded the 2016 North Hennepin Community College Presidential Medallion. Johnson and 11 others were honored for being original faculty members when the college opened in 1966. Johnson was an instructor, counselor and department chair at the Brooklyn Park, Minn., school. He retired in 1994.

Remember1960s when, in 1965, one of America’s most distinguished sculptors, Dr. Avard Fairbanks, arrived on campus as an artist in residence? Fairbanks, best known for his works depicting Abraham Lincoln, created the two Sioux warrior busts on display in the main lobby of the Betty Engelstad Sioux Center.

1966 Judy (Alphson) Nelson, ’66, has written Photo: Elwyn B. Robinson Department of Special Collections, Chester Fritz Library a book, “Intentional Leadership: Using Strategy in Everything You Do and Say.” Nelson shares her wisdom gained over 30 years as a CEO and in other leadership DO YOU REMEMBER… roles. Dr. Gene Kemper, ’56, ’59, who taught in UND’s Mathematics Department and later served as VP for 1969 Academic Affairs? Dr. Kemper started his teaching career at UND in 1966. In 1993, he went to work Michael Worner, ’69, ’76, has been for the North Dakota University System as Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs for three years before appointed to the AARP North Dakota retiring. Dr. Kemper was one of the early advocates for the use of computers at UND. Executive Council. Worner is a professor emeritus at Mayville (N.D.) State University, where he taught for 17 years before retiring in 2003.

38 | Alumni Review Spring 2017 1971 Rod St. Aubyn, ’75, is a policy 1979 David Lysne, ’71, is a member manager with Community Randall Bakke, ’79, ’82, Remember1970s when, of the board of directors for HealthCare Association of the has been selected as a Fellow in 1975, a Bismarck Creative Care for Reaching Dakotas. Aubyn lives in West by the Litigation Counsel of Independence, a Moorhead, Fargo. America. Bakke is an attorney businessman led a Minn., nonprofit focused with Bakke Grinolds Wiederholt petition drive to refer on supporting people with 1976 in Bismarck, N.D. UND’s entire legislative disabilities. Lysne is retired. Harvey Gullicks, ’76, ’13, is a budget appropriation? senior project manager in the Sally Smith, ’79, has been North Dakota Attorney 1972 Grand Forks office of Advanced inducted into the UND General Al Olsen Al Royse, ’72, ’73, ’76, has Engineering and Environmental Accounting Hall of Fame. Smith been inducted into the UND Services, Inc. is the president and CEO of ruled the issue could Accounting Hall of Fame. Royse Buffalo Wild Wings. not be put to a vote spent the majority of his career Mark Larson, ’76, ’79, ’85, because it would at the global accounting, tax of Larson Law Firm in Minot, be unconstitutional and consulting firm Deloitte & N.D., has successfully achieved 1980s to defund a Touche, where he retired as a recertification from the National Remember when, in senior partner in 2010. He has Board of Trial Advocacy as a civil 1984, Ed Clarke was constitutionally- remained actively engaged trial advocate. mandated university. with UND, and currently serves UND’s oldest student at as the national chairman of the Kent Reierson, ’76, ’80, is a the age of 81? 1970 board of the American Heart Fellow of the American College The art of Nancy Friese, ’70, Association. of Trial Lawyers. Reierson is a 1980 is the focus of the North Dakota partner in the Williston office of Doug Vang, ’80, ’83, is the Museum of Art’s Rural Arts Michael Jones, ’73, ’78, Crowley Fleck. CEO and president of The Initiative. An exhibit of Friese’s has retired after serving as Village Family Service Center. work is traveling around the vice president of research, 1977 The Village is based in Fargo state in an effort to increase arts development and marketing Forrest Flaagan, ’77, has and has 20 offices in North exposure and learning for North for the Lignite Energy Council been inducted into the South Dakota and Minnesota. Dakota students. Friese is a of North Dakota. Jones spent Dakota Sports Hall of Fame. member of the prestigious Arts more than 35 years in the Flaagan was the head cross 1981 Academy in New York and has energy industry and received country coach and distance Terry Stallman, ’81, is the shown her work in 170 group the 2016 Energy Champion coach in track from 1988-2010 interim president of the West shows and 30 solo exhibitions Award from the UND Energy & at Rapid City Stevens High Central Initiative, a community nationally and internationally. Environmental Research Center. School. Stevens won 19 state foundation serving nine cross country titles under counties in west-central Marcia Larson, ’70, is the Gary Euren, ’74, ’83, retired Flaagan’s leadership. He also led Minnesota. Stallman retired International Secretary for the after serving 11 years as an Spearfish, S.D., to two state girls from Otter Tail Power Company Sons of Norway. Larson lives in assistant state’s attorney in cross country titles. in 2016 after serving 22 years Jacksonville, Fla. the Cass County (N.D.) State’s as the company’s economic Attorney Office. Susan (Bartel) Gronhovd, development consultant. Dr. Hubert Seiler, ’70, has ’77, ’84, retired after 29 retired after spending 43 years Robert Peterson, ’74, retired years at Monroe Elementary 1982 with Heart of America Medical at the end of 2016 after serving Mathematics, Science, and Alan Anderson, ’82, has Center in Rugby, N.D. In 2014, five terms as North Dakota’s Children’s Engineering School in retired after serving five Seiler was named the National State Auditor. Peterson was Brooklyn Park, Minn. She spent years as commissioner of the Rural Health Association’s first elected to the office in a total of 37 years in elementary North Dakota Department of Practitioner of the Year as well 1996, taking over for his father, positions in Germany, North Commerce. Anderson was on as the UND Center for Rural Robert W. Peterson, ’60, Dakota, and Minnesota. the management team at oil Health’s Outstanding Rural who’d held the job for 24 years and gas company Tesoro before Health Provider. before his son took over. 1978 being named commissioner in Rodney Kirsch, ’78, has 2011. 1975 retired as senior vice president Stuart Larson, ’75, has retired for Development and Alumni after serving 38 years as the Relations at Penn State. Kirsch Traill County (N.D.) State’s helped raise $4.4 billion for the Attorney. university during his 20 years with Penn State. ALUMNI news UPDATES FROM AROUND THE WORLD

Jeanne (Heilman) Crain, ’82, 1985 1986 is CEO of Bremer Financial Corp. Angela (Horntvedt) Carol (Erickson) Larson, ’86, Crain joined the leadership Baumann, ’85, is a business is an attorney in the Bottineau, Remember1990s when, in 1994, team of St. Paul-based Bremer banking officer, vice president N.D., office of Pringle & in 2012 and was promoted to with Starion Bank in Fargo. Herigstad Law Firm. the Nickel Trophy was CEO in November 2016. stolen for the first time Theodore Carlson, ’85, is a Brent Mattson, ’86, is vice in 13 years? The NDSU 1983 manager in the tax department president at First Western thieves turned it over John Clark, ’83, is a pilot with of Gunnip & Company LLP in Insurance in Minot, N.D. to the Governor’s Office American Airlines. Clark is also a Wilmington, Del. about a month later, lieutenant colonel in the US Air Dr. Mechele Peterson, Force Reserves. Keith Gronhovd, ’85, retired ’86, ’91, has been named saying they wanted to after 29 years with Minneapolis deputy chief medical officer revive the tradition of the Timothy Lyle, ’83, is a Public Works, working for the Indian Health Service rival schools pinching the compliance officer with primarily in street design and Great Plains Area. The Great trophy from one another. Cumberland Advisors, an construction supervision. Plains Area, headquartered in investment advisory firm in Brookings, S.D., serves 130,000 1990 Sarasota, Fla. patients in Iowa, Nebraska, and DiAnn (Romo) Bolonchuk, ’90, the Dakotas. has been inducted into the Grand Forks Central High School Athletic 1987 Hall of Fame. Bolonchuk began Cindy Juntunen, ’87, has playing on the Central tennis been named dean of the team as a 7th grader. She was a UND College of Education two-time state doubles champion and Human Development. and won the state singles title as Juntunen has been serving a senior. in an interim capacity since February 2016. Jeffrey Gendreau, ’90, has been inducted into the UND Cheryl Rising, ’88, a Accounting Hall of Fame. family nurse practitioner in Gendreau is a partner in Baker Tilly Bismarck, N.D., has earned Virchow Krause, LLP, a Grand Forks the American Association accounting firm. of Nurse Practitioners 2017 State Award for Excellence. Amy (Suda) Hornbacher, Rising, who has been a nurse ’90, is director of revenue cycle for over 40 years, was one of optimization at CHI St. Alexius three nurse practitioners who Health in Bismarck, N.D. She has developed and promoted the been with the company since North Dakota Nurse Practitioner 1990. Association, which has grown to over 600 members. Rising also Craig Schulte, ’90, has written Fifty Year Law School Reunion works with Dakota Eye Institute and produced an original music Seventeen members of the University of North Dakota School of and serves assisted-living album, “The Lucky One,” released Law class of 1966, their spouses and friends returned to the Grand Forks residents in the Bismarck area. on cdbaby.com. Schulte also campus to celebrate their 50th anniversary during Homecoming 2016. works as a music instructor and This special event was sponsored by the UND School of Law and provid- performer in Fargo. ed a weekend full of activities. The reunion was the 14th for the class of 1966. The next reunion is 1991 scheduled for March 2018 in Mesa, Arizona. Ilene (Evanson) Baker, ’91, Pictured seated (from left to right): Richard Forest, ’63, ’66; Wayne is assistant vice president and Solberg, ’66; Ed Odland, ’63, ’66; Mark Fraase, ’66; Fred Gerszewski, ’63, human resource manager at First ’66; John Dahl, ’64, ’66; and Chuck Orvik, ’66. Standing (l-r): Sid Overton, Western Bank & Trust in Minot, ’64, ’66; John Sherman, ’64, ’66; Paul Brewer, ’61, ’66; Wesley Argue, ’63, N.D. ’66; Richard Wall, ’64, ’66; Gerald Galloway, ’62, ’66; Lee Wall, ’66; and Nor- man Backes, ‘66. Also attending, but not pictured: Tim Keating, ’64, ’66, and Michael Ward, ’64, ’66.

40 | Alumni Review Spring 2017 Michael Holmes, ’91, is 1997 Robin Schmidt, ’99, ’04, is Jamie Wirth, ’00, has been vice president of research, Grant Gunderson, ’97, is the Presiding Judge in the named to Prairie Business development and marketing a member of the board of Northwest (N.D.) Judicial magazine’s 40 Under 40 list of for the Lignite Energy Council directors of the RiverView District. successful business people. of North Dakota. He also serves Healthcare Association. Wirth is an assistant professor as the technical advisor to Gunderson is a project engineer Troy Seibel, ’99, is chief of mathematics at Valley City the Lignite Energy Council with Minnkota Power of Grand deputy attorney general for (N.D.) State University and Commission. Forks and lives in Crookston, the state of North Dakota. director of the Great Plains Minn. Previously, Seibel was State STEM Education Center. Leslie Bakken Oliver, ’91, is Labor Commissioner. serving as general counsel to Cheryl (Nickel) Lantz, ’97, ’09, 2001 North Dakota Governor Doug is the director of CountryHouse, Nicholas Flom, ’01, is the Burgum. She is a shareholder a Dickinson, N.D., provider of director of the Northern Plains attorney with Vogel Law Firm. care and services to those with Remember2000s when, in Unmanned Aircraft Systems Alzheimer’s and other kinds of 2001, the UND John Test Site. Grand Forks is one of 1992 dementia. six sites selected by the FAA to Gina Wieler, ’92, ’96, is the D. Odegard School of test UAS integration into the manager of safety and training 1998 Aerospace Sciences national airspace. at Altru Health System in Grand Heidi (Bergloff) Berogan, began offering a Master Forks. ’98, is director of accounting of Science program Jay Knudson, ’01, ’04, is an with American Crystal Sugar in aviation? It was the attorney with Zimney Foster 1993 Company in Moorhead, Minn. first of its kind in the P.C. in Grand Forks. He works in Beverly Fox, ’93, is a hotel the firm’s Financial Institutions accountant with TMI Hospitality Thomas Haag, ’98, is the country to offer an and Business and Commercial in Fargo. national director of aviation interactive distance Law practice groups. for The Walsh Group, one of learning option. Brian McKenty, ’93, is the the nation’s largest aviation Kristoffer Kroetsch, ’01, is Athletic Director at Ecole Edward contractors. 2000 the Minnesota Section PGA Schreyer School in Beausejour, Heather (Trenda) Larson, golf “Teacher of the Year” for Manitoba, where he has been Leander “Russ” McDonald, ’00, ’01, has obtained 2016. Kroetsch is the director teaching Physical and Health ’98, ’00, ’03, has been certification in Thanatology of instruction at the Fargo Education since 2003. appointed to the AARP North through the Association Country Club. Dakota Executive Council. for Death Education and 1994 McDonald is the president of Counseling. Larson is a Tobey (Halvorson) Schall, Robin Loegering, ’94, ’98, United Tribes Technical College bereavement specialist with ’01, ’10, is a nurse practitioner is the manager of the Family in Bismarck, N.D. Hospice of the Red River Valley. with Altru Clinic in Devils Lake, Birthing Center and the Women N.D. & Children Unit at Altru Health Michael Nowatzki, ’98, is Crystal (Toppari) Patterson, System in Grand Forks. communications director for ’00, is a member of the board Todd Stewart, ’01, has been North Dakota Governor Doug of directors of the Association named to Prairie Business 1995 Burgum. Nowatzki previously of Corporate Counsel-Kentucky magazine’s 40 Under 40 list of Janis (Burger) Neumann, ’95, worked as a newspaper reporter Chapter. Patterson serves as successful business people. is a family nurse practitioner with for Forum Communications for General Counsel to Gulfstream Stewart is a safety manager for Sanford Health Walk-In Clinic in 18 years. Commercial Services and the North Dakota operations Minot, N.D. Wyatt, Tarrant & Combs, LLP. of construction company 1999 Mortenson. 1996 Shara (Thompson) Fischer, Brett Vibeto, ’00, is a general Troy LeFevre, ’96, ’02, is ’99, is operations and project surgeon with RiverView Health 2002 a judge in North Dakota’s manager for GoodBulb of Fargo. in Crookston, Minn. Dean Comber, ’02, is Chief Southeast District Court. He lives Finance and Innovation Officer in Jamestown. Stephanie (Sizer) Harbott, for the American Association ’99, is a member of the board of Nurse Anesthetists, the of directors of the RiverView professional organization Healthcare Association. Harbott representing more than is a partner in the Crookston, 50,000 certified registered Minn., law firm Fitgerald, nurse anesthetists and student Reynolds, Harbott, Knutson & registered nurse anesthetists. Larson. UNDalumni.org | 41 ALUMNI news UPDATES FROM AROUND THE WORLD

Brian Shawn, ’02, is a member education, and employment Lance Podoll, ’04, teaches Kayce (Symington) Halley, of the on-air talent team for services to nearly 19,000 Government, U.S. History, ’06, has been named to Prairie Midco Sports Network. He individuals and their families Psychology and Economics at Business magazine’s 40 Under focuses on coverage of the each year. Oakes (N.D.) High School. 40 list of successful business NDSU men’s and women’s people. Halley is a partner in the basketball teams. Amanda (Petry) Lee, ’03, Kristin (Farbo) Syverson, accounting firm Eide Bailly in has partnered with the Devils ’04, has been named to Prairie Fargo. Jami (Copp) Verkuehlen, ’02, Lake, N.D., Walmart to provide Business magazine’s 40 Under is an agent in the North Dakota eye exams as an independent 40 list of successful business Lynn Slaathaug Moen, ’06, general office of New York Life Doctor of Optometry. people. Syverson is chief ’09, has been named a partner in Fargo. financial officer for Interstate in the Brudvik Law Office, a 2004 Engineering in Jamestown, N.D. North Dakota law firm with 2003 Leah (Halverson) Brakke, offices in Mayville, West Fargo, Kari Agotness, ’03, ’06, is ’04, has been named to Prairie 2005 Hillsboro and Finley. Slaathaug the state’s attorney for Ramsey Business magazine’s 40 Under David Blikre, ’05, is a senior Moen has devoted her practice County (N.D.). She served as 40 list of successful business manager in the Minot, N.D., to representing individuals clerk of courts for the county people. Brakke is the director of offices of accounting firm Brady in family law issues. She also since 2008. new business development for Martz & Associates. represents clients in the areas of Black Gold Farms in Grand Forks. municipal law, school law and Darcy (Diederich) Flinn, ’03, 2006 criminal defense. is vice president of Finance Barrett Jesness, ’04, is an MDS Benton Crooke, ’06, is a dental and CEO of RESOURCE, a supervisor in the East Grand hygienist with Cornerstone Jeffrey Ubben, ’06, is deputy Minneapolis-based nonprofit Forks American Crystal Sugar Dental in Fargo. insurance commissioner for the that provides chemical and factory. He has been with ACS state of North Dakota. mental health services, career since 2011. Love UND? Carry the card that supports the UND Alumni Association. Earn 1 reward point per $1 spent on eligible net purchases1 and start redeeming at just 1,500 points! Plus, with every eligible net purchase, money goes back to the UND Alumni Association & Foundation! There are two different UND Visa cards: the UND Visa Signature® Card and the UND Select Rewards Visa® Card. You will first be considered for the Signature Card. If you do not qualify for the Signature Card, you will be considered for the Select Rewards Card. These cards have different terms set forth at usbank.com/UNDVisaTerms. The Select Rewards Card may not offer the same Visa Signature Benefits.

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Andrew Cook, ’08, is a Tasha Gahner, ’09, has joined shareholder attorney with the the North Dakota Collaborative law firm Ohnstad Twichell in Divorce Group, a team of West Fargo. Cook specializes in attorneys, divorce coaches, child litigation and employment law. specialists and financial experts who work on collaborative Benjamen Johnson, ’08, divorce. Gahner is a family law has been appointed by North attorney with Melinda Weerts Dakota Governor Doug Burgum Law in Fargo. to a judgeship in the Northwest Judicial District. Dr. Rory Manke, ’09, has been named to the Bank Forward Holly (Silewski) Osborn, ’08, board of directors. Manke and is an occupational therapist his wife, Dr. Lauren (Hansen) with Pediatric Therapy Partners Manke, ’08, own Manke Family in Fargo. Dentistry in Grand Forks.

Jade Rosenfeldt, ’08, has Kasey McNary, ’09, has been been named to Prairie Business named a shareholder in the magazine’s 40 Under 40 list of Serkland Law Firm, which has Sorority Reunion successful business people. offices in Fargo and Bismarck. Pi Beta Phis from the early to mid-’60s who live or winter in Tucson Rosenfeldt is a shareholder His practice is centered and Phoenix met for lunch in Casa Grande, Arizona, in early March. attorney with Vogel Law Firm in primarily on civil litigation, Back Row (L-R): Barbara (Schimke) Kennedy, ’64; Carol (Wenstrom) Moorhead, Minn. focusing on commercial, West, ’63; Ruthanne (Nedrud) Polidori, ’64; Sue (McPherson) Cain, ..’64; business and collection cases, and Louise (Swonder) Romine, ’66. Front Row (L-R): Avis (Goheen) Tvedt, ’64; Kathy (Stroup) Huber, ’64; as well as real estate matters, and Carlen (Fee) Goehring, ’64. including foreclosures.

UNDalumni.org | 43 2011 Nikki Welk, ’12, is a physician Jesse Maier, ’15, is an associate Stephanie Jacobs Uselman, Sig Feierabend, ’11, is a assistant with the Fargo Center attorney with Severson, ’16, is a physician assistant specialty-trained orthopedic for Dermatology. She is certified Wogsland and Liebl in Fargo. with the Emergency Medicine surgeon with Hartland by the National Commission His primary areas of practice Department at Essentia Orthopedic Specialists in on Certification of Physician are estate planning, probate, Health-Fargo. Alexandria, Minn. Assistants. She specializes business transactions and real in medical, procedural and estate. Sara Schafer, ’16, is a nurse Kari Haarsager, ’11, is a cosmetic dermatology. practitioner with the Family speech language pathologist Rachel (Hoffert) Schmitz, ’15, Medicine Department at the with Pediatric Therapy Partners 2013 is a certified public accountant Essentia Health-West Acres in Bismarck, N.D. Christel Croxen, ’13, has with the Solem Law Office in Clinic in Fargo. joined the North Dakota Beulah, N.D. Nicholas Henes, ’11, ’15, is an Collaborative Divorce Group, Jivan Thakare, ’16, is a associate attorney with Howard a team of attorneys, divorce Lindsey Siemens, ’15, is a research engineer with the & Associates, P.C. in Minot, N.D. coaches, child specialists and physician assistant in family UND Energy and Environmental financial experts who work on medicine at CHI St. Alexius ’ Research Center. Lindsey Lipp, ’11, is a collaborative divorce. Croxen Medical Plaza in Minot, N.D. biomanufacturing operator is an associate attorney at Kayla Thomas, ’16, is a family with Aldevron, a biotechnology Gjesdahl Law in Fargo. Samantha Stegman, ’15, nurse practitioner at CHI St. company in Fargo. is a physical therapist with Alexius ’ Medical Plaza in Minot, Corissa Kruse, ’13, ’16, is a Bodyworks Physical Therapy in N.D. Amber (Bernhardt) Podoll, physical therapist with First Care Fargo. ’11, teaches 2nd grade at Oakes Health Center in Park River, N.D. Marko Webster, ’16, has (N.D.) Elementary School. Jamie Whitehead, ’15, has joined the Urgent Care Team at Dylan McDaniel, ’13, is a been crowned Miss Minnesota the Essentia Health St. Joseph’s- Emily Welle, ’11, is a senior associate in the Grand United States 2017. Whitehead Baxter Clinic in Baxter, Minn. psychiatrist with the Behavioral Forks office of accounting firm is a registered nurse with Park AR Health Department at the Brady Martz & Associates. Nicollet Heart & Vascular Center Essentia Health St. Mary’s- in St. Cloud. The information for Class News Detroit Lakes Clinic in Detroit Jeffrey Strom, ’13, ’16, is an is compiled from newspapers, Lakes, Minn. associate attorney with Ohnstad 2016 online postings, reader Twichell Law in Fargo. Chelsea Brown, ’16, is submissions, and the UND AA&F Ryan Sundberg, ’11, earned an associate attorney with database. If you spot an error, his professional engineering Jonathan Ternes, ’13, is a ShermoenJaksa Law in please email alumnireview@ license in North Dakota. certified flight instructor with International Falls, Minn. UNDalumni.net. Sundberg works in the surface Bismarck (N.D.) Aero Center. transportation group with KLJ Lukas Croaker, ’16, is an Engineering in Grand Forks. 2014 associate attorney with Ohnstad Melissa Roller, ’14, is a Twichell Law in Fargo. 2012 senior associate in the Minot, Biye Tambang, ’12, ’16, is a N.D., office of Brady Martz & Jonathan Doll, ’16, is the city nurse practitioner at the Sanford Associates. forester in Hazen, N.D. Moorhead (Minn.) Clinic. Jamison Wood, ’14, is a Tiffany Grossman, ’16, is an Cassandra (McKinney) production planner with attorney with Zimney Foster Torstenson, ’12, is a policy electronics manufacturer P.C. in Grand Forks. She works in advisor to North Dakota Appareo in Fargo. the firm’s Estate Planning and Governor Doug Burgum. Probate Law and Real Estate Torstenson had been leading 2015 Law practice groups. the state Department of Joshua Hanson, ’15, is a Transportation’s Environmental biomanufacturing operator Collin Hanson, ’16, is the Section since 2013. with Aldevron, a biotechnology executive director of The 701, company in Fargo. Grand Forks' first co-working space.

44 | Alumni Review Spring 2017 Shapeholders: Business Success in the Age of Activism

was intrigued to read UND President Mark Kennedy's strategy to address or mitigate the potential disruption. recent book from the first time I heard the title An ongoing theme of the book is that business leaders need to - "Shapeholders: Business Success in the Age of understand that there is more to defining success in business than just Activism." Kennedy's son coined the term "shapeholder" turning a profit. According to Kennedy, true business success comes and as with this new term, the book is also about a new topic, from an understanding that "social good" should be embraced by all which makes it extremely timely. Although the book clearly leaders. If one supports this notion, it is not a big leap to understanding iis written for the business community, there is much to be the importance of working with shapeholders to advance the business. gleaned for higher education. The immediate resonance of the book comes from the Kennedy defines shapeholders as follows: "long-term understanding of how social media now plays a role in everyday life sustainable success requires a full-spectrum view of those and the speed at which this form of communication can impact a forming the environment of business — shareholders, true business. Throughout the book, Kennedy consistently offers solutions stakeholders (employees, suppliers, customers, and local to potential disruptions that shapeholders can wield through social communities), and social activists, media, political, and media. As one can see, all of the concepts that are discussed in the regulatory shapeholders who have little stake in a company's book can be easily translated to the higher education arena. success but great ability to shape the opportunities and risks I highly recommend this book to both the business and higher it faces." education communities as a way to inoculate your organization to very Kennedy goes into some depth helping the reader real disruptive threats that exist in everyday life. AR understand the relevant shapeholder groups by discussing each in early chapters. With a good background on how — Thomas DiLorenzo, Vice President for Academic Affairs/Provost shapeholders can promote or disrupt a business, Kennedy takes us through seven chapters on how to work with shapeholders to increase the probability of success for your business. The key to his methodology is to understand one's risks so that the business leader can proactively create a ADDITIONS

1 Paul, ’01, and Alyssa Konickson, ’06, of East Grand Forks, are the proud parents of Levi Kenneth, born August 12, 2016. Levi joins big brother Caleb.

2 Emily Margaret Buske was born October 21, 2016, to Mark Buske, ’13, and Allison (Breker) Buske, ’09, ’12. 1

3 Charlotte McCormick Shackouls was born November 1, 2016, to Ellen and Todd Shackouls, ’98. The Shackouls, including sister Ashleigh live in Houston, Texas.

CELEBRATIONS

4 Josh Reiner, ’11, and Katie Pufahl, ’13, were married on September 7, 2016, in Apple Valley, Minnesota. The couple got engaged in front of Ralph Engelstad Arena, where they first met in 2010 as UND students. The couple lives in Minot, North Dakota.

5 Kelsey Brockberg, ’09, was married on September 10, 2016, to Jake Kalberer. Pictured from left to right are the members of her bridal party: Melissa Campbell, ’08; Lindsey Brockberg; Kelsey Brockberg Kalberer, ’09, Kerianne Loran, ’12, Krista Sletmoen Syverson, ’13; and McKayla Titus Schmitt, ’11, ’15. Jake and Kelsey live in Grand Forks.

6 Kirtipal Barse, ’09, ’14, and Jessica Erlandson, ’16, celebrated their marriage in a traditional ceremony on November 6, 2016, in Amravati, Maharastra, India. The couple 2 3 now lives in Edina, Minnesota.

7 Capt. Jacob Veness, ’12, and Dr. Ashley Tessier, ’12, were married on June 18, 2016. They live in Fort Rucker, Alabama.

8 Michelle Omdahl, ’10, married Kristopher Eul on November 4, 2016, in Montara, California. The couple lives is Menlo Park, California.

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8 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. Photo: Sam Melquist

1940s Beverly (Marson) Elliott, ..'52, Omaha, Neb. 1960s Agnes (Liedl) Fagnant, '52, Katy, Texas Marianne (Halvorson) Muse, '41, San Diego Edna (Schieve) Boardman, ..'60, Bismarck David Robertson, ..'52, Edgeley, N.D. Roberta (Caruth) Rud, '41, Saint Cloud, Minn. John Bushaw, ..'60, Cypress, Texas Henry Scaia, '52, New Hope, Minn. J. Gordon Caldis, '42, '48, Fresno, Calif. Donald Combs, '60, Idaho Falls, Idaho Dr. Robert Smith, ..'52, Trinity Center, Calif. Jean (Harris) Webster, '42, Tallahassee, Fla. Norman Lang, ..'60, Mesa, Ariz. Bob Welo, MD, '52, '53, Parker, Colo. LoVina (Beatty) Gow, '43, Barrington, Ill. Gary McDaniel, '60, Fargo Donald Anderson, '53, Owatonna, Minn. Lois (Schave) Huemoeller, '44, San Jose, Calif. John Stone, '60, '63, Palm Desert, Calif. Everett Fredrick, '53, Andover, Minn. George Ribaud, '44, Asheville, N.C. Duane Younggren, '60, '61, Hallock, Minn. William Hall, '53, Walnut Creek, Calif. Margaret (Anderson) Christianson, '46, Clark Borstad, '61, Detroit Lakes, Minn. George Hayashi, '53, Green Lake, Wis. Hillsboro, N.D. Richard Burgess, '61, Gresham, Ore. Mary “Pat” (Mercil) Earp, '54, Fountain Hills, Ariz. Vivian (Ulvedal) Bye, ..'47, Seattle Jean (Bloker) Knudtson, '61, Charlestown, Ind. Lois (Anderson) Newgard, '54, Marian (Hewitt) Gislason, '47, Saint Paul, Minn. Dr. Albert Kuntz, '61, '66, Santa Barbara, Calif. Oconomowoc, Wis. Donald Goodwin, ..'47, Maplewood, Minn. Milton Theige, ..'61, Williston, N.D. Anne (Short) Johnson, '55, Bismarck Stanley Haas, '47, Bismarck Orrin Engen, '62, Los Angeles Daniel Orluck, ..'55, Minot, N.D. Orville Johnson, '47, Fergus Falls, Minn. Peter Lewis, '62, Bakersfield, Calif. Irving Ringdahl, MD, '55, Longmont, Colo. Shirley (Ness) Staples, '47, Grand Forks Larry Myers, ..'62, Bismarck Charmaine (Williams) Auran, '56, Gertrude (Harnett) Woychick, ..'47, Waseca, Minn. Charles Tietz, '62, Hillsboro, Ore. Gleneden Beach, Ore. Carol (Kopperud) Clark, '48, Grand Forks Joseph Brody, '63, Waterloo, Iowa Dr. Robert Bodson, '56, '63, Harrison, Ark. Jeanette (Pietron) Haskell, '48, Dayton, Ohio Jerald Hoesel, '63, Grand Junction, Colo. Richard Olson, '56, Bismarck Lucas Held, ..'48, Stockton, Calif. Curtis Juhala, MD, '63, '65, Bismarck Denyse (Osdoba) Swenson, '56, Tomball, Texas Owen Lansverk, ..'48, Minot, N.D. Larry Capouch, ..'64, Hatton, N.D. Gayle Bare, '57, Albertville, Minn. Bennie (Brown) Rissky, '48, '53, Modesto, Calif. Carol (Anderson) Dougherty, '64, Greeley, Colo. Dr. Robert Hansen, '57, Silver City, N.M. Wayne Sproule, '48, '50, Phoenix, Ariz. David Peterson, '64, Coon Rapids, Minn. Mary Hillman, '57, Arlington, Va. Ralph Staffon, '48, Brainerd, Minn. Darrel Sarkinen, '64, Vancouver, Wash. Donald Johnson, '57, Fargo Lillian (Wishek) Dempsey, '49, Wishek, N.D. William Utendorfer, '64, Edina, Minn. Eli Kaplan, '57, Minneapolis Richard Norman, '49, '50, Carmichael, Calif. Monsignor Wendelyn Vetter, ..'64, Grand Forks Donald Kihle, '57, Tulsa, Okla. Myrle Welsh, ..'49, Austin, Minn. Melvin Walz, '64, Portland, Ore. John Crabtree, ..'58, Ellendale, N.D. James Hays, '65, Annapolis, Md. Agnes (Lenoue) Hestdalen, '58, Helena, Mont. 1950s Catherine (Carvell) Hilden, '65, Kent, Wash. Roger Loerch, ..'58, Harvey, N.D. Mary Ann (Peterson) Hood, ..'50, Lexington, Ky. Ronald Hoffart, '65, '66, Fargo Barbara Nilles, ..'58, Eden Prairie, Minn. Merle Thorud, ..'50, Hillsboro, Ore. Dennis Nelson, '65, Crary, N.D. Andrew Anton, '59, Corbett, Ore. John Whitcomb, '50, '53, Grand Forks Terry Hanson, ..'66, Grand Forks Cordell Christenson, '59, Gunnison, Colo. Ellen “Jo” (Simonson) Glass, ..'51, Tucson, Ariz. Richard Johnsen, '66, Bismarck William Crow, '59, Grand Forks Jerome Mack, '51, '57, Grand Forks Carolyn (Paukert) Keller, '66, Wilmington, N.C. Gary Foy, '59, Yuma, Ariz. Hillis McKay, '51, '63, Saint Charles, Minn. Allen Rudel, '66, West Fargo, N.D. Dr. Lyle Mauland, '59, Grand Forks Guy Petersen, '51, Knoxville, Tenn. Connie (Hill) Adamson, '67, Williamsburg, Va. John Rutten, '59, '90, Devils Lake, N.D. Marjorie (Tufte) Purmort, ..'51, Van Wert, Ohio Thomas Foster, '67, Omaha, Neb. Bette (Brocopp) Shafae, '59, Half Moon Bay, Calif. Melvin Vigen, '51, Irving, Texas Dr. Erwin Geigle, '67, '70, Minnetonka, Minn. Quentin Zimmerman, ..'59, Jamestown, N.D. Robert Watson, MD, '51, Detroit Lakes, Minn. Harold Rene, '67, Jamestown, N.D. Eugene Carr, '52, Fosston, Minn. Gladys Robinson, '67, Raynham, Mass.

48 | Alumni Review Spring 2017 John Anderson, '68, Manhattan, Kan. Arlis (Jacobson) Ley, ..'76, Aurora, Colo. 2000s Marlene (Curran) Hooker, ..'68, Calgary, Alberta Thomas Lundberg, '76, Paola, Kan. Bradley Casavan, '02, Chandler, Ariz. Rolf Olness, MD, '68, Sonoma, Calif. Anthony Misslin, '76, Eden Prairie, Minn. DeVon Grube, '04, Virginia Beach, Va. Dr. Kenneth Smith, '68, Wheaton, Ill. Charles Durrenberger, '77, Grand Forks Jenny (Olson) Ekvall, '05, '07, Enderlin, N.D. Sister Brigetta Buckley, '69, Crookston, Minn. Dr. Thomas Lowry, '77, Bucyrus, Kan. Eric Miller, '06, Chicago Paulette (Kolling) Cowan, '69, Mount Vernon, Mo. Karen (Gengler) Craven, ..'78, Cheyenne, Wyo. Dr. Gregory Grooters, '08, Fargo H. Morgan Lacy, ..'69, Fessenden, N.D. Scott Swygman, '79, Grand Forks John Larson, '69, Sioux Falls, S.D. Bruce Vidden, ..'79, Detroit Lakes, Minn. 2010s Candice (Skarsgard) Pearson, ..'69, Hannah Manthey, '11, Fargo Albuquerque, N.M. 1980s Ronald Bleth, '80, Grand Forks Faculty/Staff Donald Olson, ..'80, Grand Forks 1970s Daniel Bina, Grand Forks Barry Ault, '70, Thunderbay, ON Canada Lisa Eriksmoen, '81,'85, Minot, N.D. Derrald Dewald, Moorhead, Minn. Ludwig Fettig, '70, East Grand Forks, Minn. Richard Gleason, '81, Dubuque, Iowa Glenn Fontaine, Grand Forks Mark Friestad, '70, Minnewaukan, N.D. Darryl Thomson, '81, Santa Rosa, Calif. Jane Grega, Grand Forks Sheila Hansen, ..'70, Mary Esther, Fla. Joyce (Rudie) Welsh, ..'81, Grafton, N.D. Linda (Richotte) Haldeman, Grand Forks Karl Hardiman, ..'70, Columbia City, Ind. Gordon “Jack” Sunsdahl, '82, Ann (Ahrenholtz) Miller, Grand Forks Ronald Hauf, '70, Makoti, N.D. Thief River Falls, Minn. Caroline (Giese) Sobolik, Grand Forks Bruce Kihlstrom, MD, '70, Hillsborough, N.C. Hans Ahlness, '83, Fargo Arden Lerfald, ..'70, Bradenton, Fla. James Borchert, '83, Fargo Friends Douglas Nolte, ..'70, Fertile, Minn. Mark Gourley, MD, '83, Bethesda, Md. Richard Arazi, MD, Bismarck Dennis Branvold, '71, Northglenn, Colo. Tommie Willard, '83, Bismarck Millie (Jensen) Backes, Minot, N.D. Richard Pederson, '71, Cooperstown, N.D. Dr. Karen Knutson, '84, '87, Moorhead, Minn. Edwin Benson, Beulah, N.D. Phyllis (Ellefson) Rinas, '71, Devils Lake, N.D. Lucy Hoover, '85, Boalsburg, Pa. The Honorable Myron Bright, Fargo Mary (Kirmis) Stahlecker, '71, '72, Lisbon, N.D. Dr. Rae (Johnson) Offutt, '85, Moorhead, Minn. Alan Collette, Grafton, N.D. Bradley Akerlind, ..'72, Souris, N.D. Brian Schlenker, ..'85, Moorhead, Minn. Don Dietrich, Grand Forks Lt. Col. Dannie George, '72, Jacksonville, Texas Dr. Mark McDonald, '86, '94, '13, Bismarck Earl Fraley, Henderson, Ky. Milton Hoyt, '72, Mohall, N.D. John Tankersley, '86, Grand Forks Rose Greenberg, Grand Forks Arthur Larsen, '72, Arden Hills, Minn. Rae Werre, '86, Allentown, Pa. Curtis Hofstad, Devils Lake, N.D. Gerald Miller, ..'72, Grand Forks Richard Halas, '87, Maple Grove, Minn. Peter Horner, Napoleon, N.D. Norval Nelson, '72, Burnsville, Minn. Dr. Karen (Gronaas) Mason, '87, '91, '96, Kathleen (Anderson) Jaeger, Bismarck Randall Reese, '72, Eden Prairie, Minn. Peoria, Ill. Frank Kelley, Fargo Todd Tangen, '72, Northwood, N.D. Miles Nelson, '87, Williston, N.D. Joyce (Barta) Lutovsky, Voss, N.D. Audrey (Eriksmoen) Bergquist, '73, Jeanne (Wall) Bassingthwaite, '88, Clara Meier, Bismarck Rancho Mirage, Calif. Apache Junction, Ariz. Mollie (Marshall) Olson, Grand Forks Gerald Ehli, '73, Watertown, S.D. Ida (Yates) Reed, Grand Forks Audrey Neff Hiney, '73, Moorhead, Minn. 1990s Randall Shirek, Minot, N.D. George Tupa, '73, Leavenworth, Kan. Marian Wolden, '91, Spooner, Wis. Cherie Templeton, Laramie, Wyo. Steven Wedger, '73, Stacy, Minn. David Thornton, '92, Grand Forks David Tvedt, Larimore, N.D. Richard Foss, '74, '77, Tiskilwa, Ill. Cindy LaFrenz Hryzan, '93, Boise, Idaho Robert Wells, MD, Jamestown, N.D. Madelyn (Dahl) Kitzan, '74, West Fargo, N.D. Christine Blackgoat, '95, Juneau, Alaska John Mundfrom, '74, Austin, Minn. Susan (Godkin) Connor, ..'95, Bennington, Vt. Jerrold Baenen, '75, Jamestown, N.D. Scott Rieger, '01, Brooklyn Center, Minn. Blaine Winters, '75, Cranberry Portage, Manitoba

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