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Vengeance: Memories Of MMC Honors Three At Alumni Days Mount Marty College wel- Medical Clinic. serve on the her Christian A Father’s Perfect Punt comed alumni back to campus She has been rec- Alumni Council. lifestyle. the weekend of July 17-18 for the ognized and He was named Sister Aidan BY TOBIN BARNES while the old man school’s annual Alumni Days admired by all to Mount Marty was born and and I were watch- gathering. Saturday’s events whom she has Alumni Director raised in York, My old man hated flies...for ing Jeopardy and included breakfast, campus served: children, and Director of Neb., and attend- one thing. sure enough, I tours, lunch, tea hosted by for- their parents and College Relations ed Mount Marty Uh huh, you say. Okay, but saw crime in mer faculty and staff, and an grandparents, as in 1981, and a College after high doesn’t everyone hate flies, even progress. So I evening social and banquet. The well as nursing year later worked school. After her the kinda pretty ones that are dropped the dime weekend culminated with Mass Pates students and sur- Kunselman solely as Director Aidan freshman year, she metallic blue and metallic green? to my old man entered Sacred who was sitting and brunch on Sunday. Honored gical patients. of College Like, what good are they other classes at the banquet were Pates is an only daughter and Relations. He also taught Heart Monastery, continuing her than processing dead stuff? on the couch, and studies during the summers and Yeah, but not like my old man Barnes skewed justice Mount Marty High School has given much of her time over speech, theatre and mass com- was instantly set Classes of 1950 and 1960, Sacred the years to her family during munications at the College, earning a degree in Social Science hated flies. At the motel, he in 1962. She also earned her hated them viscerally, like fly- in motion. Heart School of Nursing Classes the illnesses of her brother, par- directed plays and musicals, and He blew off that couch and of 1950 and 1960, and Mount ents and grandparents. She is managed the campus theatre Masters in Psychology at dom was after him personally. Duquesne University, in prepara- Like they could buzz into his through the door like someone Marty College Classes of 1960, known in her neighborhood in and radio station. Since moving had finally touched off the big 1970, 1985, and 1990. During the Yankton as a person who will to Minneapolis, Kunselman has tion for her work at the College. pocket and fly away with his Her ministry has included money if they wanted to. one. That poor kid — a guy now, I festivities, alumni Marilyn Pates, generously help others. She is a volunteered to be the Twin assume — is probably still in ther- Norm Kunselman, and Sister graduate of Mount Marty who is Cities Representative in the teaching at the elementary and And he thought that’s they college levels; serving many years did...metaphorically speaking. apy trying to get over seeing a Aidan Bourke were also hon- recognized for her sense of val- Alumni Council, representing the Back then, people drank their 250-plus-pound former pro foot- at Mount Marty as Director of ball fullback come roaring after ored. ues, kindness, compassion, hos- class of 1976, and coordinating Admissions, Registrar, and pop out of bottles. Wooden pop him like someone had just hiked Marilyn Pates received the pitality, and faith in God, bring- alumni events. cases that fit onto wire stands Alumni Director; coordinating vol- the ball. award for Distinguished ing Christ to others who are in For keeping the Mount Marty unteers at Madonna Rehab were left beside pop machines so Despite the shock of seeing a Professional Achievement for need. College community in his heart people could leave their empty Hospital in Lincoln, Neb.; serving pin-striped, bibbed-overhauled demonstrating leadership, com- Norm Kunselman received and his actions, Kunselman has on numerous boards and commit- bottles in them. And that was ball of fury eating up ground in petence, dedication, integrity, the award for Distinguished received the Distinguished our setup at the motel, too. tees; and serving as the Prioress his direction, the kid made a pret- and a commitment to continued Service to the Mount Marty Service to the Mount Marty of Sacred Heart Monastery from Most people left their empties ty good effort at escape, bottles education in her chosen profes- Community for exhibiting Community award. behind because they were worth 1981-1989. clanking around in the baskets of sion. notable leadership abilities in Sister Aidan Bourke received She currently volunteers in only two cents apiece for trade his bicycle. in. Yeah, two cents. Big deal. Had Pates graduate from Sacred service to the Mount Marty the award for Distinguished the Mount Marty Alumni Office, He was just about to hop on Heart Hospital School of Nursing Community. Service to Mount Marty College to be a miser to hoard pop bot- the bike seat when my old man where she enjoys working with tles for the prospect of someday in 1957. She has been employed Kunselman, of Minneapolis, for her loyalty to the mission of the staff and having contact with planted a perfect punt right in the as a nurse and instructor in the Minn., is a 1976 graduate of the institution, continued inter- cashing them in for maybe a seat of the kid’s pants. The kid alums, and she generously helps buck or two. instantly turned into a screaming operating room at Sacred Heart Mount Marty College. Shortly est and support, and reflection with various ministries in the Heck, that’d be thinking like mess, but, vengeance taken, my and a clinical nurse at Yankton after graduation, he began to of honor upon the school with monastery. my old man. That’s right. He old man let him ride away with loved pop bottles, but I’m telling the bottles. you right now he hated them, Thereafter, my old man suf- too, almost as much as flies. fered and hobbled a good week After all, he had to sit there and from the impact of the kid’s butt worry about losing those pop on his already inflamed ingrown What To Do When Washer Fluid Goes Astray bottles. toenail. Maybe kids loved pop bottles Enough said, I guess, except a BY TOM AND RAY MAGLIOZZI water and ammonia. There might even be a as much as he did. Ten bottles grown man would probably find little ethylene glycol (aka coolant) in there! were twenty cents for a kid back himself in jail if he pulled some- My aunt called me the other day and said RAY: There’s a small amount of soap in then, and twenty cents could buy thing like that today...bottle thief she had trouble trying to find the place or not. Windex. But my guess is that any suds would a couple gobs of penny candy or where you put more windshield-washer fluid. be suppressed by the high pressure inside even the big stuff like five cent So you can see my old man loved his pop bottles, but he also She told me the only cover she found was the cooling system. I mean, she might find Snickers or Milky Way bars. That one that said “Coolant.” You guessed it -- she made pop bottles worth stealing hated them for reasons other than her engine compartment overflowing with for some kids. worrying about losing them. It put the windshield-washer fluid in the soap suds tomorrow morning, but I doubt it. And so we had a problem had to do with those pesky flies. coolant reservoir. She then told me that she It’s not like she put Dawn Dishwashing with pop bottle theft at the I’ll tell you more about that used a bottle of Windex instead of the dilut- Liquid in there. motel. That’s right, we were suf- next time. (Sorry. I guess it’s going ed blue stuff you buy for car windshields. TOM: Flushing the cooling system cer- fering shrinkage in our projected to be a while before I get to my What should I do to help her, and what pos- tainly will remove all doubt about any future pop bottle inventories. Drove my perfect kid-job from which all this sible damage did she do? — Adam damage that might result. And she can feel old man nuts to lose this kind of subsequently grows. It’s a thera- TOM: Well, the first thing you can do to good knowing she has the cleanest cooling cash flow to delinquents. peutic process, after all.) help her is open her hood and show her system in the neighborhood. So another one of my jobs as where the windshield-washer reservoir is. Tobin Barnes, a high school CLICK & CLACK a seven-year-old at the motel was English teacher, gets his skewed Then take a big magic marker and label it for Got a question about cars? Write to to keep an eye out for pop bottle viewpoints of life from staring too her. Click and Clack in care of this newspaper, looters. much at Crow Peak, which looms RAY: The next thing I’d do is take the car or e-mail them by visiting the Car Talk Web Well, it so happened that one to a mechanic and have the coolant flushed any damage. above his home a few miles outside TOM: Me neither. If I had to guess, I’d say site at www.cartalk.com. day I looked out the window out and replaced. But I don’t think she did © 2010, King Features Syndicate, Inc. Spearfish. the dominant ingredients in Windex are

SCHOLASTICS YCC To Hold Season Auditions Joel Pearson Earns Doctorate At O.H.S.U. Schurman Awarded Scholarship At S.D.S.U. Joel R. Pearson graduated from the Oregon Health and Science Brett Schurman of Yankton was awarded the Van Buskirk Family On Monday, August 16 from College basketball games and University (Portland, OR) in June. Dr. Pearson has begun his Scholarship in Mechanical Engineering in Support of the Jackrabbit 5:30-7p.m. the United Church of holiday programs at the State Residency in Family Practice with the University of Utah School of Guarantee 2006 Challenge for the 2010-2011 academic year at South Christ in Yankton will be the Capitol in Pierre as well as oth- Medicine in Salt Lake City. Joel is a 1999 graduate of Chamberlain Dakota State University. location of the season audi- ers. High School (Chamberlain, SD) and 2005 graduate of New York Schurman is a sophomore majoring in mechanical engineering at tions for the Yankton Children's The choir is dedicated not University. He is the son of The Reverend James and Gloria Pearson SDSU, where he is active in American Society of Mechanical Choir. only to improving a child's of Yankton. Engineers, intramural basketball, intramural football and intramural The choir features singers musical ability but also to fos- softball. He is the son of Dan and Kathy Schurman and is a 2008 from grades 3 through 8, with tering personal and social skills graduate of the Yankton High School. unchanged voices, performing which help set a good basis for South Dakota Superintendents Hold Meetings Myron Van Buskirk is founder and owner of the Van Buskirk a wide variety of 2 and 3 part a successful life. Past choir At the recent annual conference (July 20, 2010) of the SDSSA, the Companies, a real estate development firm started in 1971, in Sioux music. Rehearsals are held members readily acknowledge group selected Dean Christensen of the Deuel School District as its Falls. He earned his bachelor's degree from SDSU in mechanical engi- each Monday night and on the that their lives have been Superintendent of the Year. Christensen has been the Superintendent neering in 1963. After college graduation, he joined McDonnel last Saturday morning of each enhanced by their Children's of Schools in Deuel since 2004. He was also Superintendent of Aircraft in St. Louis, Mo. From 1965 to 1971, he worked for John month. Choir experiences. Schools in Emery from 1987-2004. Deere Dubuque Works in Dubuque, Iowa. The Hitchcock native is a Performance venues are var- For further information call Selected for the Distinguished Service Award was Bill O’Dea of past president of the South Dakota Home Builders Association and ied and will include 3 local con- or email Executive Director Belle Fourche. O’Dea retired from the Belle Fourche School District in the Sioux Falls Home Builders Association. He and his wife Joan certs as well as appearances Teresa Szakats at (605) 857- June of 2009 after serving 24 years as the Elementary Principal (1985- have four grown children: Michael and Steven, Sioux Falls; Karen, which have in the past includ- 0706 or tszakats@southeast 1995) and Superintendent of Schools (1995-2009). Portland, Ore.; and Chad of Sioux Falls. ed SkyForce and Mount Marty joblink.org. Also during the conference, the following officers were selected: President Mark Greguson (Chester); President Elect Roger DeGroot (Brookings); Past President Mark Froke (Vermillion); Treasurer Lynn Schulte And Bosch Rank In Top 20 At Nationals Vlasman (Tripp-Delmont); Secretary Robert Arend (Garretson); and Yankton High School graduates Mallory Schulte and Emily Bosch Regional Representatives: Terry Eckstaine (Tri Valley); Susan Smit ranked top twenty in the nation in policy debate at the National (Wagner); Margo Heinert (Todd County); Loren Scheer (Douglas); Forensic League National Debate Tournament held in Kansas City, J&H Cleaning Services Keith McVay (Smee); Brian Heupel (Clark); and John Bjorkman MO June 13-18th, 2010. Free Weekend & Evening (Oldham-Ramona). Yankton senior Sophie Holtzmann also attended the national tour- Estimates (605) 665-2571 nament in Lincoln Douglas debate. Appointments Available Laurie Rempp Awarded Juris Doctor Degree Total Janitorial • 7 Days a Week NEW YORK — Laurie Rempp, of Yankton, was awarded a Juris Cunningham Graduates From Marietta College Doctor (J.D.) degree by New York Law School at its 118th annual com- MARIETTA, Ohio — Jillian Cunningham of Vermillion recently If It’s Dirty...We Will Clean It! mencement ceremonies at Lincoln Center’s Avery Fisher Hall on May graduated from Marietta College's Physician Assistant Studies Contract Cleaning Carpet Cleaning 14. Following graduation, Rempp will join Snitow Kanfer Holtzer & J&H Cleaning Program. In all, 25 students were part of the seventh graduating class Commercial/Residential Upholstery Cleaning Millus, LLP - Legal Assistant. that completed the 27-month program. Services Rempp is one of 560 members of the class of 2010 at New York Law Cunningham is a graduate of University of South Dakota. 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The School is noted 1980 in Lake Andes, SD. for its nine academic centers: Center on Business Law & Policy, Center They have six children: on Financial Services Law, Center for International Law, Center for New Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Dvorak Kimberley (Tony) Pate of Eagle We invite you to York City Law, Center for Professional Values and Practice, Center for River, AK; Sarah Dvorak of Real Estate Studies, Diane Abbey Law Center for Children and Families, Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Dvorak Denver, CO; Christopher come as you are, Institute for Information Law & Policy, and Justice Action Center. New of Yankton, SD, will celebrate (Abby) Dvorak of Lennox, SD; bring all that York Law School has more than 13,000 graduates and enrolls some their 30th wedding anniversary Brendan, Angela, and Evan 1,500 students in its full-and part-time J.D. program and its four on August 2, 2010. Dvorak, all of Yankton. 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