A magazine for alumni and friends FALL/WINTER 2014

Roots and BRANCHES Community ties bear fruit for BSU and students

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4-7 More than ever, Bemidji State and its students are engaged in service and partnerships that enrich the learning experience and make a lasting impact on the region and its quality of life.

8-9 The Imagine Tomorrow fundraising campaign is UNIVERSITY REACHES OUT Departments going strong as it heads into the final 19 months,

but continued support will be needed in order to 13-15 BSU News achieve or exceed the ambitious $35 million goal. PRESIDENT 16 Faculty Achievements 22-23 Dr. Abby Meyer ‘01 has applied the perspective R. HANSON on managing life’s priorities that she gained while 18-19 Students to Watch at BSU to her life as a pediatric ear, nose and 20-21 Beaver Athletics PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE throat physician and the mother of two boys. I cannot say often enough that the primary goal of everything we do as a university is to 26-27 Honors Gala prepare our students for meaningful, rewarding lives in their chosen fields. Their success is 24-25 The spark of interest in marketing and commu- the measure of our own. This objective motivates and inspires all we do together as adminis- nication that Roger Reierson ‘74 experienced as DR. ABBY MEYER 28-29 Homecoming trators, faculty, staff, alumni and friends of Bemidji State. Its pursuit and the results that a student led him into a career at the helm of a MEMORIAL TRIBUTES continue to affirm our purpose can be found throughout this edition of the BSU magazine. major enterprise that he still runs today. 30-31 Campus Photos Nowhere is this more evident than in the tremendous and gratifying progress we have made 32 Alumni News together in the Imagine Tomorrow fund-raising campaign. In less than four years, the BSU 44-45 The passing of Joe Lueken and Peggy Johnson Foundation has received gifts and pledges totaling more than $31 million. Stop and let that this summer left an enormous void, but they will 33-42 Class Notes figure sink in for a moment. We’re closing in on our ambitious goal of $35 million, and I have be remembered for lives of generosity, caring every confidence that we will get there over the next 19 months. The generosity has been and service to their communities. 43-50 Annual Report staggering, and our students’ increased prospect for success has already been the outcome.

The difference we are making in the lives of our students can be clearly seen in our latest 51 Alumni Calendar examples of “Students to Watch” – young people who are defining themselves as leaders JOE LUEKEN MMMM PEGGY JOHNSON and laying the groundwork for significant accomplishment in their careers. The benefits of the guidance and motivation provided by our faculty is evident in the achievement of our alumni, including those profiled at length and the many others featured in the Class Notes section. We are so proud of our continued association with our thousands of outstanding alumni, including the remarkable individuals honored during the Homecoming Honors Gala COVER PHOTO: Katie Swanson works Sept. 10 in the on Oct. 17. Bemidji Community Food Shelf garden with fellow students from a BSU sociology course on social movements that BEMIDJI STATE UNIVERSITY magazine We also make a difference in the world through the work of our students, faculty and staff, combines service learning with in-class study. as illustrated in the cover story on community and civic engagement. Transformative is produced by the Office of Communications and experiences of service and hands-on learning are so important to students, and they also Marketing and BSU Alumni & Foundation. VOLUME 30, NO. 2 provide enormous benefits to the greater Bemidji region and beyond. It is published twice per year and distributed free to BSU alumni and friends. Direct comments to FALL/WINTER 2014 So success begets success. Your support of our students and the university as a whole [email protected] or 1-888-234-7794. EDITOR: Scott Faust enables our mission of education and advancement, and for that we are forever grateful. UNIVERSITY ADVANCEMENT EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR: Rob Bollinger Best wishes, A member of the Minnesota State Colleges and Universities CHIEF DEVELOPMENT OFFICER: Jonathan Yordy system, Bemidji State University is an affirmative action, equal opportunity educator and employer. 14-154 ART DIRECTOR, DESIGNER: Kathy Berglund

PHOTOGRAPHY DIRECTOR: John Swartz

Richard Hanson WRITERS: Andy Bartlett, Maryhelen Chadwick, Scott Faust, Brad Folkestad, Al Nohner and Cindy Serratore

2 | BEMIDJI STATE UNIVERSITY www.BemidjiState.edu | 3 MAKING AN IMPACT OFF CAMPUS organization that cultivates interest and Students show off new Outreach efforts grow in cross-country ski trail markers aptitude in computing among middle and high school girls. installed on Oct. 10 at BSU’s scope and importance Hobson Memorial Forest north Throughout the fall semester, students in of Bemidji. They remapped a sociology course have taken turns the trails using GPS. By Scott Faust tending a community garden and In partnership with a cross-country ski participating in other food-supply club, Bemidji State University students in initiatives. October installed new signs at BSU’s All these activities exemplify a growing Hobson Memorial Forest to mark seven priority for Bemidji State: engagement by workforce that employers require. This “I think all of us around the “I think all of us would agree that Bemidji kilometers of trails remapped in March by faculty, staff and students in and with the connection was highlighted Oct. 1 when table would agree that Bemidji fellow students. greater community to foster education, Chancellor Steven Rosenstone of the has been very good the past has been very good the past couple of years Minnesota State Colleges and Universi- couple of years in developing Also in October, a computer programmer at collaboration and service. ties system began a one-day Bemidji partnerships and in saying we in developing partnerships and in saying the university convened Minnesota’s first Along with pride in yearly events that visit by stressing the importance of can move miles when we work chapter of Girls Who Code, a nationwide bring people to campus, such as we can move miles when we work together.” community engagement over breakfast together,” Paris said. Community Appreciation Day, the high with local leaders. – Lori Paris, president of the school mathematics contest and the Serving the region is fundamental to the Bemidji Area Chamber of Commerce Madrigal Dinners, outreach and hands-on “None of us can get it done by our- role of a public university like BSU, said learning are increasingly prized. selves,” Rosenstone said. “We have to do Dr. Martin Tadlock, provost and vice and two other trail networks maintained this together. Nothing less than the president for academic affairs. by the Bemidji Cross-Country Ski Club, a “We are motivated by the opportunity for future of our state hinges on our project that began to take shape in 2013 students to gain a sense of connection The relationships are multifaceted and success.” through conversations between BSU and relevance to the real world,” growing, he said – as joyful as inviting faculty and the club. President Richard Hanson said. “Civic Lori Paris, president of the Bemidji children to skate with BSU hockey players engagement can work to create a sense Chamber, told him that has happened in and as ambitious as a planned off-cam- “The courses needed new signage,” said of responsibility for one’s place while also and around Bemidji. pus Center for Community Partnerships Dr. Patrick Donnay, a professor of political building a capacity for leadership.” that will coordinate the expanding science who also serves as secretary of interaction. the club. “We’re using the partnership Bemidji State is actively involved in between BSU and the ski club to make it multiple projects, ranging from a “The university is a lot more visible in the happen.” downtown fine arts center that will community than it used to be,” said showcase BSU artwork to a public-pri- Tadlock, who returned to BSU in 2012 Last winter, several geography students vate student housing development after previously serving as a dean from on snowshoes used GPS navigation to planned for the former Bemidji High 2001 to 2006. trace the exact route of the Hobson trails. School site. Another example is Intern Typically, campus-community collabora- Funding for the signs was provided by Bemidji, launched with the Bemidji Area tion develops over time, as educators see the ski club, BSU’s Outdoor Program Chamber of Commerce to connect ways to connect student learning with Center and the BSU Sustainability Office. students with employer needs. local needs. The new signs were designed and produced in Bemidji. Dr. Steven Rosenstone, chancellor of the Minnesota State Colleges and Universities system, In addition, BSU administrators are at the Such was the case with students’ work at left, and President Richard Hanson have breakfast on Oct. 1 with Bemidji community { continued on next page } table on efforts to grow the regional on new trail signage at Hobson Forest and business leaders at the American Indian Resource Center. economy by developing the highly skilled

BSU hockey player Megan Lushanko helps a little one around the ice in the Sanford Center during a post-game 4 | “Skate with the Beavers” event in January. BEMIDJI STATE UNIVERSITY www.BemidjiState.edu | 5 MAKING AN Dr. Carla Norris-Raynbird, professor of sociology, IMPACT joins students in harvesting carrots at the Bemidji OFF CAMPUS Community Food Shelf garden on Sept. 19. “I’d never heard about (Girls Who Code), learned in the classroom and accomplish Students employed by the office, as well and I saw this tiny little ad in the email their service learning in a concerted effort as members of an organization called and went, ‘Wow, that sounds like – as a group,” Norris-Raynbird said. Students for the Environment, have been something I’d be interested in,’” Theisen involved in such efforts as the Nice Ride Divided into several small groups, students recalled. “I’ve been in the computing bicycle-sharing program, collection of have worked in the garden at the Bemidji field as a professional since the age of 19, electronic waste for recycling and taking Community Food Shelf and learned about and being a female, and a young female unwanted household items from Goodwill such things as beekeeping and compost- at that, was kind of hard. I had to take for free distribution via the Bemidji ing through Rail River Folk School and an assertive stance in order to make Community Food Shelf. visiting the Harmony Natural Foods Co-op, my way.” both in Bemidji. “We talk about what we need to do to Her interest in the national effort to change a situation, to make it more In class, the students are analyzing their develop girls’ talents at computing sustainable, and what are the barriers,” group interaction, comparing notes with coincided with a BSU performance review Another recent BSU outreach effort that Bailey-Johnson said. “In the process, other groups and applying all of that to the that challenged her to think about her addresses a community need is a new they’re learning problem-solving skills, larger subject of social movements. goals. A native of Hibbing, she recognized sociology course called Social Movements project-management skills, leadership the need for such an initiative in rural and Change, developed by Dr. Carla “It’s one thing to read about social skills and communication skills.” Minnesota. Norris-Raynbird. The course combines movements,” said one of the students, Those learning experiences, combined service learning through hands-on senior Jodi Rubio of Park Rapids, “but With the blessing of her bosses, Theisen with a desire to improve the quality of life experience with in-class study of how actually going out into the community connected with the group’s national staff, throughout the Bemidji region, drive social movements begin and evolve. and learning about an issue in Bemidji explained the socioeconomic challenges Bemidji State’s increased commitment to has made me more interested in of the Bemidji region and followed steps Norris-Raynbird’s students, not all of civic and community engagement. food justice.” to organize a club, including a background them sociology majors, have been The importance of those efforts is check and test of her own programming working side-by-side this fall with Learning comes by doing people in the community on grass-roots underscored in the university’s draft expertise. The concept of problem-based learning initiatives to increase the availability of Strategic Plan for 2014-2017. One of its six Jennifer Theisen, a computer programmer at Bemidji For BSU programmer Jennifer Theisen, – tackling a community issue or need – has In July she learned her application to form food for those in need. major strategies is called “Connect to Our State (standing), guides members of the Girls Who Code who sparked creation of Northern a Girls Who Code chapter had been been central to the work of BSU’s Communities, which calls for “students, chapter through an exercise on Oct. 27 in Decker Hall. Minnesota’s Girls Who Code, the idea to accepted, and she began meeting with “Students experience the real-life Sustainability Office, under the leadership faculty and staff to engage and connect involve the university in such an effort area school superintendents, principals application of the theory and concepts of coordinator Erika Bailey-Johnson. with our constituents and the many was sparked by a tech industry email and teachers to help her recruit girl communities we serve through service group she follows – and by her own participants. About 35 girls are now learning, internships, mentorships, experience in a field that is still meeting weekly on the BSU campus, community advocacy, field experiences, continued from page 5 } from continued

{ male-dominated. including a contingent that travels by bus class projects and practicums.” from Red Lake and Ponemah. “We are motivated by the opportunity for students to Hanson said those community interactions Theisen said she believes the program are linked to connections that extend to gain a sense of connection and relevance to will not only benefit the girls but also help the state and national levels and beyond. develop talent to build the region’s “There is little doubt that the world is the real world. Civic engagement can work to create economy. increasingly global and interconnected,” a sense of responsibility for one’s place while “This is going to start the girls off earlier he said. “Therefore, Bemidji State also building a capacity for leadership.” to get the knowledge to be able to apply University needs to make sure its for the jobs that we have here – to start commitment to civic relevance is – Dr. Richard Hanson, president of Bemidji State University here and stay here,” she said. rock solid.”

Erika Bailey-Johnson, coordinator of the BSU Sustainability Office, left, joins with students in an electronic waste collection effort in May 2013 in downtown Bemidji.

6 | BEMIDJI STATE UNIVERSITY www.BemidjiState.edu | 7 CONTINUED GENEROSITY How you can get involved Everyone connects with Bemidji State in a unique Gifts, pledges already way: as a student, professor, staff member, intellectual, art lover, music aficionado, sports fan and on and on. Not surprisingly, every contribution By Scott Faust helping students – whether it is a financial gift, bequest or volunteer effort – reflects a donor’s perspective, financial Inspired by a glimpse of success over One surprise has been a greater-than- situation and time. the horizon, leaders of Bemidji State expected propensity for outright gifts of From a practical standpoint, here is background to University’s Imagine Tomorrow campaign cash or assets versus planned or estate gifts. inform your decision to be a part of the Imagine are determined not to let up now. “It’s a great story because it’s money that Tomorrow campaign: With $31 million given or pledged as of Oct. the university can use in a quicker way and CASH: Cash gifts are an easy way to give. Gifts 14, the five-year goal of $35 million is a more direct way,” Sorensen said. of any size make an immediate impact on the Imagine Tomorrow priority area of your choice. achievable by the target date of June 30, Another impressive result has been the 2016, said Dave Sorensen ’72, chair of the SECURITIES: Gifts of stocks, bonds, treasuries and level of participation by the university’s Mary Campbell and Lou Baron of Paul Bunyan Broadcasting in Bemidji are pictured with sophomore Cale Ubel of Campaign Steering Committee. mutual funds that have increased in value are a staff and faculty. Five-year pledges for this Williams, recipient of the Gwen (Ranzau) & Madeline Campbell Lakeside Scholarship, following the BSU Scholarship win-win opportunity for you under current tax laws. fiscal year totaled $423,000 compared Appreciation Breakfast on Sept. 27. “Support has been coming from people They provide an immediate benefit to the university who have an affinity for Bemidji State, from with $45,000 in the previous year. and a current income tax savings for you. our alums and from people who have heard Money received so far has already made a “This campaign has lifted us up,” Hanson “It’s been an outstanding effort,” Rosen- PROPERTY: Property and real estate includes about the success of our campaign and significant impact: said. “We will be more able to tolerate stone told students. “I don’t know of a homes, cabins, commercial buildings, farmland want to be a part of this wonderful Scholarships provided through the BSU down-dips; we will be more able to university in the country that has been able and other property, such as works of art and other university and what’s happening here,” Foundation have nearly doubled, from support our students. Access and to move this far with private giving.” items of value. Sorensen said. $700,000 in 2011 to $1.2 million this affordability have been greatly improved Inevitably, as the goal inches closer and the PLANNED GIFTS: These involve giving to the university in the future. Typical types of planned Plans call for continued communication academic year. for our students, and those are two end of the campaign draws within sight, gifts would be a bequest, life income gift, from President Richard Hanson to alumni Donors have established 35 new significant words. I couldn’t be prouder conversation has also turned to what charitable gift annuity, charitable remainder trust, and friends regarding both the campaign of our staff and our volunteers. It’s really endowments with a total value of more comes next – the possibility of a future life insurance or a gift of residence with a life and developments on campus. BSU than $4 million. working.” campaign once Imagine Tomorrow has interest. The Bemidji State University Legacy Society Foundation staff and campaign volunteers Students in 18 academic departments are Another outcome has been a significant reached a successful conclusion. is a unique organization whose members have will also maintain their outreach to provided for Bemidji State University through a receiving newly endowed scholarships, strengthening of the foundation staff, Both Hanson and Sorensen continue to prospective donors and followup with planned gift. Members receive special invitations ranging from nursing to education to including a decision this summer to move stress the need to continue to reinforce a and other benefits. individuals who have expressed interest in environmental studies. former chief development officer Marla culture of philanthropy within and around giving but haven’t done so yet. Patrias into a new role as prospect VOLUNTEER: One of the most important Mike Roberge ‘’90, president of the National Pledges will provide the latest technol- Bemidji State that will be crucial because gifts you can give to BSU is to tell others why the “We’re at a stage now that we’re looking at research manager. Her replacement, Campaign Committee for Imagine Tomorrow, and ogy in buildings such as Memorial Hall, state support has dramatically declined university is vital to you and the community. Attend Dave Sorensen ’72, chair of the Campaign Steering going back and talking to some people,” now being renovated into a state-of- Jonathan Yordy, has significant fund-raising over the past several years. campus events. Volunteer for committees and Committee meet with national committee members on Sorensen said. the-art home for the business and experience in higher education. events that interest you. You make a difference! Oct. 17 at the American Indian Resource Center. Inspiration will come from the benefits that accounting programs. “One thing you want at the end of a private support provide to BSU students, campaign is an infrastructure that is far Hanson told members of the National Potential benefits of giving BREAKDOWN OF GIVING stronger than what you began with,” said • Make an immediate or future Campaign Committee who met on campus impact on Bemidji State. Designations by category for $31 million received or pledged Rob Bollinger, BSU’s executive director of at Homecoming. to the Imagine Tomorrow campaign as of Oct. 14, 2014: • Help the department, college or area university advancement. “We will have of your choice. “The stories of their success are moving that at this university as we bring this • Potentially increase the impact of and powerful, and it’s because of people your gift with a matching gift. Scholarships – 51% campaign to a close.” like you that we get it done,” he said. • Make a large gift with a small cash investment. Academic Support – 13% Dr. Steven Rosenstone, chancellor of the • Save on income tax. Gifts awaiting designation – 12% Minnesota State Colleges and Universities • Reduce estate tax. system, continues to be an enthusiastic • Avoid capital gains tax. Lakeside Fund & all other gifts – 24% • Generate lifetime income. supporter of the Imagine Tomorrow campaign, something he expressed Oct. 1 CONTACT the BSU Foundation at (218) 755-2762, during a one-day visit to Bemidji. email to [email protected] or visit www.bsuimaginetomorrow.org.

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SCHOLARSHIPS By Andy Bartlett

The Imagine Tomorrow campaign has led to hile gifts and pledges to the Imagine “It definitely gives us more stories to tell creation of five new endowments supporting W students in BSU’s business-related programs, Tomorrow campaign are providing benefits when we have prospective students coming three of which are funded to the point that they across the campus, Bemidji State University’s to campus,” Henry said. were able to provide a total of $13,600 in awards Department of Business Administration has This support comes at an opportune time for to six students this year: seen a particularly dramatic impact. the departments of business and accounting THE WELLE FAMILY/FIRST NATIONAL BANK Contributions have so far helped create five as they prepare to move next fall from their SCHOLARSHIP provided two awards this year. new endowments for business majors and current locations in Decker Hall into a new THE RON BATCHELDER SCHOLARSHIP two more that support accounting majors. home in a renovated Memorial Hall. provided one award this year. This year alone more than $20,000 in The renovation, part of a construction project A CONTRIBUTION FROM MIKE AND TRACY scholarships were awarded to nine students totaling nearly $14 million financed by state ROBERGE has established an endowment that through these new funds, and next year the bonds, began in earnest this September and is Michelle and Dale Ladig at home in Bemidji. provided three awards this year and in 2015-16 level of support provided by these new will provide $40,000 in business scholarships. creating a completely new setting for business endowments will grow to more than and accounting classes, group projects and THE MCBRIDE ACADEMIC SCHOLARSHIP and $50,000. the George Welte Memorial Business Scholarship departmental offices. have been funded and will begin supporting “We never know if a $1,000 scholarship is SAYING Irvin E. Engebretson ’61, retired senior THANK awards soon. going to be the difference between keeping director of finance for CRAY Research, has a student in school or having them leave,” and giving back Two new endowments have been launched stepped forward to help ensure the new said Dr. Shawn Strong, dean of the College of specifically to support accounting majors: Memorial Hall lives up to its promise of Business, Technology and Communications. YOU providing state-of-the-art facilities. THE JOE KOCINSKI ACCOUNTING SCHOLARSHIP “From that standpoint these scholarships are supported two $3,000 awards to accounting By Scott Faust invaluable. They make a huge impact, one Engebretson, who lives in Chippewa Falls, majors with strong academic and leadership Wis., has made a planned gift through the achievements and financial need. student at a time.” BSU Legacy Society that will provide Michelle and Dale Ladig have seen Bemidji scholarship and will be directed to a The boost also will make the department THE KEVIN AND TRUDY RAUTIO ACCESS $250,000 for computers and other technol- State University through many perspectives Bemidji High student attending BSU. SCHOLARSHIP will be awarded each year to more competitive when recruiting future ogy needed for business and accounting – not only their own, but also those of BSU “We want to give back to our community an incoming undergraduate student who has students, said Dr. Rod Henry, professor and students. students they’ve met as longtime university financial need, with a preference for students and try to help a local student achieve chair of the Department of Business employees, their four daughters and students from northern Minnesota. While scholarships and new technology to success through coming to BSU,” Michelle Administration. at Bemidji High School. support those students are obvious, tangible said. “It’s a win for the university and benefits from Imagine Tomorrow, the They are very clear about the merits of the community.” campaign’s most-important contribution Bemidji State, and they want to share it with In addition, they continue to support a “We never know if a $1,000 scholarship may well be the relationships it is helping local students who might otherwise take scholarship, originally funded by General is going to be the difference between keeping a forge with its numerous alumni, Henry said. their talents elsewhere. Mills in the mid-1980s, that bears their “We want to give back to our community names and supports a returning student “Imagine Tomorrow is drawing us closer to our To that end, they have student in school or having them leave.” who continues to live in campus housing. alumni and the organizations they work for,” and try to help a local student achieve made a five-year pledge – DR. SHAWN STRONG, DEAN OF he said. “It’s drawn us tighter to that success through coming to BSU.” to the Imagine Tomorrow The scholarship was renamed for the THE COLLEGE OF BUSINESS, TECHNOLOGY community that we were already a part of.” campaign that will endow Ladigs in honor of Dale’s retirement last AND COMMUNICATIONS summer after a 34-year career, including 20 – MICHELLE LADIG a $1,000 annual { continued on next page }

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Michelle Ladig, second from left, and Dale Ladig are joined at the BSU Honors Gala on Oct. 17 by daughters Rachel Qualley (from left), Kathryn Ladig and Jessie Ladig. Not pictured is daughter NEWS Hillary Heuton.

years overseeing residential housing and Raising their girls and seeing them “Our kids have had a great scholastic programs as the director of residential through high school and into college has experience here, so part of this is being life. After previous work at Southwest deepened the Ladigs’ appreciation of able to say thanks to BSU for our Minnesota State University, he came to the important decisions students make rewarding careers and thanks to Bemidji Bemidji State in 1978 as area director for along the way. High School for everything they did for Birch, Linden and Tamarack halls. our kids,” he said. Sculptor Curtis Ingvoldstad discusses his work at a dedication ceremony on Oct. 13. Both are supporters of the arts, and

continued from page 5 } from continued Michelle has worked at BSU since 2000, they have been especially involved with As parents and as university employees, { for most of those years as a member the Paul Bunyan Playhouse, where they they’ve gained a deep appreciation of Minnesota chainsaw artist Curtis Ingvoldstad has used his talents to bring new life to an of the Information Technology staff, currently volunteer and Dale was a both the challenges and the opportuni- ancient white pine log, which now stands as a lakeside monument to the wildlife found in the including management of a university member of the board for a decade. ties that young people encounter on BSU air, on the land and in the waters surrounding Bemidji State University. computer store. Last year, she trans- their journeys to adulthood. Music is another passion, and they The log for the Shoreline Sculpture came from one of three white pine trees, estimated to be ferred into a faculty support role in the support the marching band and other Michelle recalled a student majoring in over 100 years old, which were taken down by the university during the summer of 2013 as College of Arts and Sciences. Previously, music programs at Bemidji High School, music whom she got to know and part of a project to install a modern artificial playing surface at BSU’s Chet Anderson Stadium. she worked in job development and where Michelle’s daughter, Rachel, is mentored while he worked at the training for the State of Minnesota The Nerstrand native started with a rough scale drawing showing an approximate position for a junior this year. university computer store. Her recom- in Bemidji. each of the animals organized around a tree — birds at the top, with land animals such as mendation helped him land an informa- “When students apply themselves to bears or raccoons in the middle, leading to an underwater section featuring fish such as Both divorced and each with two tion technology position at the Blake their music, they just seem to set those sunfish, pike or walleye. daughters from a previous marriage, School in Minneapolis. same standards for their education,” Ingvoldstad’s sculpture is just one of several projects the university has planned that will Michelle and Dale met through mutual Michelle said. “I had contagious enthusiasm about allow the wood from those stately trees to live on. Among them is a new entry arch into Chet friends in Bemidji. They have been information technology that he Anderson Stadium, built by students in Bemidji State’s Department of Technology Art & married for almost seven years. The Ladigs say they’ve come to realize responded to,” she said. “I was very that Bemidji students don’t always Design and installed this summer near where the trees originally stood. proud of that – the difference I could recognize the tremendous educational “Our kids have had a great scholastic make.” opportunities that BSU offers right in BSU receives $623,000 grant with interests and abilities in STEM fields, to support STEM students experience here, so part of this is being able their backyard. Their new scholarship is Added Dale, “Our job as staff is to help demonstrable financial need and from one way to encourage talented local them be successful. I always appreciated Bemidji State has received nearly $623,000 groups traditionally underrepresented in from the National Science Foundation to STEM-related programs. to say thanks to BSU for our careers students to take advantage of the seeing the students walk across the fund scholarships for BSU students majoring The scholarships also will spearhead the university’s strengths. stage at commencement – the ones you and thanks to Bemidji High School for in programs related to science, technology, creation of support programs specifically thought might not make it. It’s an Dale said the scholarship also is a way of engineering and mathematics. targeting students in STEM majors. The everything they did for our kids.” emotional experience.” saying thank you to both Bemidji High The grant creates a program that will provide university plans to create a STEM Scholars recurring $9,200 annual scholarships for a Learning Community that includes peer-to- – DALE LADIG and Bemidji State. minimum of 22 students over a five-year peer networking and more direct mentoring period. They will be targeted toward students opportunities with BSU faculty.

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Visiting scholar Wang Hongxia, a professor from Beijing, China, gets some information during Community Appreciation Day on Sept. 4. LEADERSHIP Most Affordable Online Schools” listed BSU Demolition of the Laurel House was done 39th in its ranking. in early September, and the reconstruction began shortly thereafter. Reconstruction has APPOINTMENTS Edudemic’s rankings score colleges and universities using a weighted formula been in planning stages for several years, and that includes a variety of factors including a 2013 gift from Kraus-Anderson Construction Colleen Greer named dean 2012. He served the preceding year as BSU’s can put her experiences to work helping retention rate, graduation rate, in-state and as part of the Imagine Tomorrow campaign of College of Arts and Sciences interim vice president for academic affairs. students find a home where they can relax, has allowed the project to move forward. Previously, he also was associate vice be surrounded by supportive friends and out-of-state tuition and breadth of offerings. In June, Dr. Colleen That gift included cash and funds designated president for extended learning and library learn new things by involving themselves in BSU’s Center for Extended Learning offers Greer was named dean for project management services related to services and interim associate vice president a welcoming campus community. seven undergraduate programs and five of the university’s construction of the home. for extended learning. BSU begins academy for graduate programs that can be completed College of Arts and Monerson went to Winona State University international faculty visitors entirely online. Students enrolled at BSU and U.S. Capitol Christmas tree Sciences after spending Griggs holds a bachelor’s degree in political intending to be a teacher. However, her Bemidji State has launched the NorthStar living out-of-state pay the same tuition rates packaged at BSU for trip east two years as interim science from the University of North Dakota own experiences as a resident assistant Visiting Scholar Academy, intended to improve as Minnesota residents. dean. In this position, and earned his juris doctorate from the and the relationships she built with the RAs One of the country’s most famous Christmas understanding and cooperation between Greer provides University of North Dakota School of Law. He and other staff in her buildings convinced trees was packaged at Bemidji State in international and U.S. scholars. The non-profit Bemidji Opera Theatre will leadership for 14 is a member of the state bar associations in her to choose a different path. An early preparation for its journey to the U.S. Capitol academy will welcome four visiting scholars to present “The Mikado” in February academic programs and approximately Minnesota, North Dakota and South Dakota. sense of connection to her university and building in Washington, D.C. her adventures through the Winona State campus this year. Bemidji Opera Theatre will present Gilbert & 110 faculty and staff. Jonathan Yordy joins Wang Hongxia and Li Wei, both professors Sullivan’s “The Mikado” on Feb. 26-28, On Oct. 29, a tree was cut from Minnesota’s residential experience have blossomed into In addition to her work as interim dean, BSU Alumni & Foundation from the Beijing Youth Politics College in in the main theater of the Bangsberg Fine Chippewa National Forest and trucked to BSU’s a career that is well into its second decade. Greer served as director of women’s studies Dr. Jonathan Yordy China, have been at BSU since late August Arts Complex. John Glas Fieldhouse, where it was prepared Monerson has a bachelor’s degree in K-6 and gender studies at BSU from 2010-12, brings extensive experiencing life and culture on campus and in before departing for the Capitol on Nov. 3. It took education with a minor in music and a Gilbert & Sullivan’s comic opera, first performed was coordinator of BSU’s sociology program, knowledge of and the community. They were joined in September a team of six to eight people approximately 25 master’s degree in educational leadership NEWS in 1885, is a satire set in a stereotypical and served as chair of BSU’s Liberal commitment to by Xiang Fei, who works for a Beijing-based hours to prepare the tree for shipment. from Winona State University and a English version of feudal Japan. Education Task Force from 2005-08. She higher education in non-governmental organization, and Tao Jun, The packaging stop at Bemidji State was one doctorate in higher education administration BSU’s production will be directed by Dr. chaired BSU’s social relations and services his new role as chief from Jianghan University in Wuhan. of many visits the tree will make in cities from St. Cloud State University. Cory J. Renbarger, assistant professor of music. department from 2002-08. She is a full development officer and towns as it journeys from the forest to While at BSU, the scholars will attend Music will be conducted by Scott Guidry, professor with experience in curriculum for the Bemidji State Washington, D.C. Once the tree is installed, the Carol Russell is new president seminars, workshops and classes focusing assistant professor of music. Costumes will development, strategic planning, faculty University Foundation lighting ceremony is broadcast live on C-SPAN. of BSU Foundation board on cross-cultural and academic exchange. be designed by professional designer Fred mentoring, student advising, accreditation and Alumni Association. Carol Russell ’74 The program will help the visiting scholars Rogers, and BSU’s Tom Skime will supervise and collective bargaining agreements. University Heights residential Yordy gained experience as vice president became president of better understand the U.S. education system, the technical production. Greer earned her bachelor’s degree in project moving forward for university advancement and executive the BSU Foundation the cultural environment and other aspects sociology at Kearney State College and has Auditions for the show were held in late In July, Bemidji’s Joint Planning Commission director of the Missouri Western State Board of Directors of American life. In addition, they will have master’s and doctorate degrees in sociology September, and casting was completed in early recommended approval for University Heights, University Foundation in St. Joseph, Mo.; at the organization’s access to selected classes of their choice from the University of Kansas. October. The cast and crew will include BSU an apartment and commercial project slated executive director for major gifts at Lewis on a non-credit basis. annual meeting in students, members of the BSU faculty and staff for construction on the northwest corner of Robert Griggs appointed to serve University in Romeoville, Ill.; coordinator October. Russell is CEO U.S. News again ranks BSU and residents from the Bemidji community. 15th Street and Bemidji Avenue, where Bemidji as interim dean at technical college of public relations and fundraising at the and a founding partner University of Missouri-St. Louis; among BSU in the Midwest’s top tier NTC students partner in High School once stood. The commission of Russell Herder, an Robert Griggs, vice other positions. In addition, he has lectured For the seventh consecutive year, Bemidji State Laurel House reconstruction recommended the necessary rezoning to integrated marketing communications firm president for innovation and taught at schools in Wisconsin and has been ranked among the Midwest region’s multi-family residential and approved a with offices in Minneapolis and Brainerd. Bemidji State University, Northwest Technical and extended learning New York and written works for scholarly best colleges and universities in U.S. News and conditional use permit for future development. Russell leads the firm’s strategic practice in College and a number of other partners are at Bemidji State and publication. Construction on Phase 1 of the project is representing corporate and governmental World Report’s 30th annual review of America’s collaborating on the construction of a new Northwest Technical planned to begin in April and be completed A summa cum laude graduate of the entities regionally and nationally. She has Best Colleges, published in September. home on the site of the university’s former College, was named by April 2016. That initial phase would University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, he applied that experience in her leadership BSU tied for 33rd among public institutions in Laurel House honors residence. The home, interim dean at NTC in include a four-story complex with first-level went on to earn a doctorate in English from on foundation board as vice president and the Midwest region and tied with four other being built primarily by students in NTC’s trade May. Griggs will help accommodations for six retail businesses and the State University of New York at Buffalo. a leader in the group’s recent strategic institutions for 99th among all colleges and and construction programs with support from the college prepare for 42 apartments on the upper three levels, planning efforts. universities in the region. professional project managers and planners, will a restructuring process that will enhance its Jodi Monerson is university’s which would be operated by the Department Russell was a 2006 Outstanding Alumni The rankings also list BSU 36th on its regional serve as a shared living and learning community value to the Bemidji region and more fully new director of residential life of Residential Life in a manner similar to BSU’s leverage its partnership with BSU. Award recipient. She previously served “Best Colleges for Veterans” list. These are for students in BSU’s honors program. When classes kicked on-campus residence halls. The university will on the board from 1998-2004 and rejoined the top-ranked schools in the Best Colleges The interim appointment has no fixed off at Bemidji State this have at least once facility manager on site once in 2009. rankings that participate in federal initiatives timetable, but BSU and NTC President fall, a new face was Phase 1 is completed and collect rent from She holds a bachelor’s degree in mass helping veterans and active service members Dr. Richard A. Hanson said Griggs will be overseeing residential student residents on behalf of the developer. communication from BSU. She also has apply, pay for and complete their degrees. responsible for maintaining high educational life for the first time a master’s degree in communications Plans call for further development in the quality while preparing NTC for changes in decades. Dr. Jodi University ranks high for management and is a graduate of the future. Two additional phases of the project, anticipated to take effect by summer 2015. Monerson was named online program affordability University of Minnesota Executive Program, which include a parking garage, additional Griggs came to BSU in 2000 as dean of BSU’s director of Carlson School of Management. Bemidji State has been named one of the multi-use buildings, a significant residential distance learning and summer programs. He residential life in June; most-affordable universities in the nation for expansion and more retail space, could be has been the university’s vice president for she succeeds Dale Ladig, who had been obtaining an online education by Edudemic, a completed by the spring of 2022. innovation and extended learning since June at BSU for 34 years. Monerson comes to site that connects educators, administrators BSU looking forward and seeking ways she and students to the latest academic technology resources. 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Dr. Mahmoud Al-Odeh, associate professor Dr. Troy Gilbertson, professor of criminal justice, of technology, art and design, presented was part of a cohort of MnSCU faculty, staff DEGREE OPTIONS a research paper entitled “Strategies for and administrators who graduated from the Teaching Online and Hybrid Courses” at the Luoma Leadership Development Academy 49th National Association for Workforce this summer. The academy is an 18-month beyond Improvement conference in Portland, Ore., leadership development program to promote May 21-22. Al-Odeh also completed necessary effective leadership on MnSCU campuses. EXPAND training to become a Certified Quality Matters Bemidji Dr. Carla Norris-Raynbird, assistant professor Master Reviewer to manage and coach peer Students in Bemidji State’s RN to Baccalaureate nursing program of sociology, will serve as review of online courses within the Minnesota attend an in-person course called Evidence, Practice and Profession at Colleges and Universities system (MnSCU). director of BSU’s women’s studies/gender studies the Cambridge campus of Anoka-Ramsey Community College in April. Dr. Jim Barta, interim dean of the College program. She will chair the By Andy Bartlett of Health Sciences and Human Ecology, Women’s Studies/Gender and Joan Kyriopoulos, teacher at the Edith Studies Council, serve on the Bowen Laboratory School university’s Academic Affairs Bemidji State University is steadily professionals who want to become licensed RN-to-BSN nursing degree in the Emma Eccles Jones Council and work with others developing alternatives for students who teachers. Participants take coursework In fall 2009, Bemidji State launched the first College of Education and to provide oversight for this want a four-year degree that isn’t wholly online and then meet in person three times NEWS of its satellite bachelors degree-completion Human Services at Utah critical area of study. online but live too far away to attend a year in the Twin Cities. State University, co-wrote programs for registered nurses at ARCC’s an article for the October Dr. William “Bill” Scheela, professor emeritus classes in Bemidji. The post-baccalaureate program now Cambridge campus. The program instantly of business administration, in September issue Teaching Children BSU now offers several so-called hybrid serves about 250 teacher licensure filled to capacity, sparking an expansion to Mathematics, a publication presented his academic paper on funding programs – mostly online but part candidates each year. The average FasTrack of the National Council of mechanisms for small- and medium-sized Anoka-Ramsey’s Coon Rapids campus, as Teachers in Mathematics. enterprises in Asia at an Association of face-to-face – that allow students to student is 35 years old and can’t manage well as Lake Superior College in Duluth and Southeast Asian Nations conference in Jakarta, The article was about the authors’ work in complete bachelor’s degrees or achieve on-campus study because of work and Century College in White Bear Lake. Indonesia. He presented his work with Dr. Janti the rural Guatemalan village of Santa Avelina professional certifications on campuses family. where students are integrating mathematics Gunawan, an international business partnership These programs offer registered nurses close to their homes. Plus, a new business and social studies in a cultural context. consultant from Indonesia. These students can pursue licensure in with two-year degrees a combination of administration program at Anoka-Ramsey Dr. Patrick Welle, professor of economics, is music, physical education and special on-campus and online courses, allowing Dr. Porter Coggins, assistant professor of Community College is now offered on professional education, wrote a column titled nearing completion on a project to research education at the K–12 levels; in communica- them to pursue their bachelor’s degrees “How Geometric Sequences Might Have Kept how water levels are impacting the economic ARCC’s Coon Rapids campus, entirely in tion arts & literature, mathematics, health while holding down full-time employment. the Zombies Away” that was published in the viability of resorts and other commercial water- person. BSU and social studies at the 5–12 grade levels; The programs allow for full- and part-time June 2014 edition of the Minnesota Council for based activities on the Rainy and Namakan The degree-completion programs typically or chemistry, earth & space science, life enrollment options, with students visiting Teachers of Mathematics’ Mathbits newsletter. Lakes and Rainy River on the northern edge of Minnesota’s Voyageurs National Park. come at a lower cost than other credit- science and physics at the 9–12 level. the host campuses every three weeks for Dr. Michael Urban, associate professor of transfer options, and students still have lab work to complement the programs’ professional education, in July attended Dr. Anton Treuer, executive director of the The program is also expanding its offerings the Association of American Colleges and American Indian Resource access to traditional classroom instruction through a partnership with St. Cloud State online coursework. Clinical experiences are Center, has been traveling Universities’ 2014 Project Kaleidoscope from Bemidji State professors without University that will allow students to obtain arranged to be as close as possible to extensively to present on a Summer Leadership Institute for STEM Faculty having to travel great distances. certification as library media specialists. students’ homes. in Crenstone, Colo. broad array of topics related to Ojibwe language and The university expects to continue adding B.S. in business at Anoka-Ramsey Because of increasing demand for Dr. Eric Forsyth, professor of human cultural preservation. In mid- locations and program options, said Lynn baccalaureate nurses, BSU is exploring performance, sport and health, co-authored a September, Treuer presented BSU this fall began offering the bachelor of Johnson, BSU director of extended learning. additional sites at other two-year campuses chapter in Contemporary Sport Management as part of a panel discussion science degree in business administration (5th Edition) entitled “Interscholastic Sports.” hosted by the Indigenous “The business program at Anoka-Ramsey is in the greater Twin Cities. to two-year business graduates in Contemporary Sport Management is written Scholarship Program at being looked at as a model for other “There continues to be a huge demand by Paul Pedersen and Lucie Thibault. Northeastern State University in Tahlequah, partnership with ARCC. programs,” Johnson said. “There are other among Minnesota’s nurses for programs like Okla., which is exploring a collaborative effort The BSU@AnokaRamsey program is Dr. Janice Haworth, associate professor of music, with BSU and the University of Hawaii-Hilo. departments that have an interest in these,” said Dr. Jeanine Gangeness, founding presented “The Civil Rights modeled after BSU’s accredited bachelor of delivering these programs to students in dean of the Bemidji School of Nursing. “This Movement and the Songs Dr. Colleen Livingston, professor of mathematics science degree program on the Bemidji They Sang” to open the fall and computer science, received Quality Matters the metro area.” is part of our continuing effort to support the campus. Students choose between season of the Headwaters certification in August for her MATH 1100 ability of nurses to come back to school and FasTrack teacher licensure emphasis areas in management or Center For Lifelong Learning course, Math Reasoning. complete their education.” presentation series in BSU’s Department of Professional Education entrepreneurship, and all courses are ______Park Rapids. set an early precedent for off-campus daytime. Full-time, in-residence BSU faculty BSU Extended Learning alternatives a decade ago when it created members teach upper-division courses. Phone: (218) 755-2068; (800) 852-7422 the FasTrack program for degreed Email: [email protected]

16 | BEMIDJI STATE UNIVERSITY www.BemidjiState.edu | 17 In second grade, Amber Dorr of Milaca Native Americans in health care settings, a dressed up as a psychologist for career newfound interest for her. Dorr is enrolled day, not fully understanding what the in the Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe but didn’t profession would entail. grow up immersed in the culture. “I didn’t know anyone in psychology but “I’ve learned a lot more at Bemidji State,” maybe got the idea from a movie or TV,” said Dorr, who appreciates the insights, said Dorr, who remained intrigued with the although her interests in psychology prospect of becoming a psychologist. “I encompass all cultures. always wanted to do something to help Drawn to a helping profession, Dorr is an people.” exemplary leader in helping others at Once she took a college psychology course Bemidji State. She is president of the in high school, she developed an apprecia- Council of Indian Students and the tion for the subject matter and knew from Psychology Club, has been secretary for her first psychology course at Bemidji Students for the Environment and works State that she had found her passion. as a peer advisor and ambassador through “I liked learning about the different the American Indian Resource Center. This disorders, symptoms and how people semester she is a teaching assistant in the would think,” she said. “I like the idea of psychology department. She has also been working with kids and young people, when involved in TRIO, a prep program for some of those things are easier to detect.” first-generation college students. Dorr and her twin sister, Alyssa, are “Amber is frequently involved in study first-generation college students, and she groups and always willing to assist ERIC BJORK. plans to be the first in her family to earn an students who are struggling to grasp a JORDAN MORGAN advanced degree. Her career goal is to do difficult concept,” said her advisor, Dr. counseling, possibly in a college health Marsha Driscoll. “Among her peers, she is When Erik Bjork graduates from Bemidji manager intern responsible for bidding, Jordan Morgan, a passionate conservation- movement and connectivity. “That’s where care center. She was recently accepted as definitely one of the most motivated.” State University in December, he’ll leave estimating and analyzing costs for shop ist and bicyclist, came to Bemidji State I want to do my research in the future.” a McNair Scholar, a nationwide program to Wherever her career takes her, Dorr said behind a tribute to his alma mater: a operations. University from St. Peter to pursue a degree He credits his strong start in college to BSU help prepare high-achieving undergradu- she hopes to eventually return to the north in environmental studies with a minor in handsome, white pine arch located on the Bjork grew up hearing BSU stories from his TRIO, a prep program for first-generation ates for graduate school. woods. sociology. west end of the Chet Anderson Stadium. father, Steve, who graduated in 1986. But and low-income students. Morgan fit the bill As a McNair Scholar, Dorr will do research “I’d like to own a cabin on a lake,” she said. The arch is one of two projects that have ultimately it was the university’s engineer- He got the opportunity to attend college on both counts. on racial micro-aggressions involving “I just love it here.” incorporated wood harvested from three ing technology program that most attracted when he won a $20,000 scholarship from a “I took full advantage of everything TRIO had 100-year-old white pine trees cut down in him – that and the chance to hunt and fish. hometown endowment for students who to offer, and that really made the differ- the summer of 2013 to accommodate He joined the BSU chapter of Ducks AMBER DORR triumph over hardship while doing well in ence,” he said. “I don’t know if I would have stadium renovations. Bjork and three other Unlimited when he arrived. school. been able to do the same things without it.” students spearheaded the project to Last year, he helped found the Beaver By the time he was 18, Morgan had been Morgan is president of Students for the repurpose the wood. Engineering and Design Club, which in its declared an emancipated minor, making him Environment and a member of the BSU “We came up with the designs, drew them first year built the arch and attended an financially independent from his parents Sustainability Office. He applauds the in CAD, had them structurally approved and industry conference in New Orleans. He has before he graduated from high school. A university’s signature themes of multicul- helped mill the logs and construct and build also received three BSU scholarships: friend’s family took him in as one of their tural understanding, environmental the arch,” said Bjork, who took the lead as Alumni, Paul Bunyan Communications and own and that first summer introduced him to stewardship and civic engagement. He has an accomplished woodworker. Kraus-Anderson. the Boundary Waters. also been accepted as a McNair Scholar, a He is wrapping up a degree in engineering “Erik is one of the finest students that I have “I remember thinking, ‘Wow, this is nationwide prep program for graduate technology with an emphasis in manufac- ever taught,” said his advisor Dr. Mahmoud something that I really care about,’” said school. His goal is to become a college turing management. He plans to someday Al-Odeh. “The quality and standard of his Morgan, who was impressed by the vast professor so he can do conservation own a custom cabinetry and furniture work is outstanding and clearly reflected in wilderness. “Then when I got the scholar- research and mentor others. business. the arch.” ship, the northern woods called me back. I “What’s unique about Jordan is that he finds knew I wanted to go to Bemidji. It has an “My dad had a little shop in our house … Bjork looks forward to his final BSU project, the good in any situation,” said his advisor amazing environmental studies program.” and I would build things there and tinker,” an independent study in which he expects Erika Bailey-Johnson, BSU Sustainability Bjork said. “Then in high school, I built a to spend up to 200 hours designing and Last summer, Morgan became a Doris Duke Office coordinator. “He’s such a positive cabinet and fell in love with it. I just love building a cedar-ribbed canoe, which will go Conservation Scholar, one of 24 outstanding person, and that has a ripple effect on hands-on building.” with him when he graduates. students selected from a field of 400 everyone.” applicants. He spent eight weeks studying By the time Bjork was 18, he had purchased He’s proud, though, to leave the arch behind. In the face of difficulties, Morgan sees only conservation at the University of Washington. his own tools and started a small side “A person should try to leave their mark,” silver linings. business crafting custom furniture. He Bjork said. “Ours will be a big arch.” “It was such a great experience,” said “I’ve had really great people in my life – at St. spent the past four summers with a cabinet Morgan, who was particularly impressed by Peter and Bemidji State,” he said. “I’ve been company, most recently as a project research related to climate change, wildlife fortunate.” BSU to watch 18 | BEMIDJI STATE UNIVERSITY STUDENTS Stories by Cindy Serratore www.BemidjiState.edu | 19 FOLLOW BSU SPORTS @ www.bsubeavers.com BSU SPORTS SCANLAN RETURNS FITZGERALD TRIPLETS SHARE with Beaver Hockey blueprint in hand EXPERIENCE WITH STUDENTS Among the seven new faces on the 2014-15 BSU men’s hockey team are three freshmen who hail from the same hometown and share a last name. The Fitzgerald triplets from Port Alberti, B.C., are Leo, Gerry and SPRING SPORT RECAPS Myles. Believed to be first set of The Bemidji State baseball team completed triplets to play collegiate hockey, the the 2014 season with a record of 21-22 overall trio visited a set of first-grade triplets and a 15-15 mark in NSIC play to finish ninth in – Lauren, Katie and Megan Burrow the league standings, narrowly missing out on – at Bemidji’s Northern Elementary School on Sept. 30. The Fitzgeralds the NSIC Tournament. Following the season, invited the girls to be their guests at a sophomore shortstop Tyler Nelson (Hayfield, Beavers game and spoke to students Minn.) was named All-Northern Sun Intercol- about growing up as triplets. legiate Conference Second Team, becoming the 16th member of the BSU baseball team to earn all-conference honors under ninth-year By Brad Folkestad head coach Tim Bellew ... WOMEN’S TRACK AND JIM SCANLAN ’85 Crawford earns inaugural Brian Leonhardt is first FIELD wrapped up the 2014 outdoor season at EDUCATION: Bachelor of science in physical education Butch Raymond Scholarship Beaver to score in the NFL As an All-American goaltender for the Bemidji “At that time, playing was what I wanted to do, the NSIC Championships, where Jolynne Den- and health, Bemidji State University; master of science in The NSIC named Bemidji State University senior When tight end Brian Leonhardt took the field for State University men’s hockey program in the but certainly with the way Coach Peters ran his man (So., Esko), Ciara Brewster (So., Crookston), Kelsi Crawford as one of 16 recipients of the the Oakland Raiders in a Sept. 7 game at the New late 1970s and early ’80s, Jim Scanlan wasn’t practices and what he gave us in the classroom, physical education, Western Michigan University. inaugural Butch Raymond Scholarship for 2014. The York Jets, he became the first former Beaver to and Brittany Koss (Fr., Grand Rapids) posted it was almost like he was setting us up for thinking about a career in coaching. PLAYING CAREER: Four-time letter winner and two-time $5,000 scholarship is sponsored by Sanford Health see action in the NFL since 1987. Leonhardt is the personal-bests results in their respective events Instead, he had his sights set on extending that. If you wanted to be a coach, you had the and given to one student-athlete from each of the first BSU player to make the NFL under current NAIA All-American in hockey at Bemidji State University; to headline a group of six Beavers who recorded his playing career beyond college. Little did blueprint in your hands.” NSIC’s 16 member institutions. Crawford, an outside head coach Jeff Tesch, and the first since Al Wolden member of NAIA championship team in 1979-80 and season-bests at the meet. Following the season, he know, his time playing for coaching legend Scanlan took the job, moved to Michigan’s Upper hitter for the BSU volleyball team, is a two-time played for the Chicago Bears in 1987. Leonhardt NCHA championship team in 1982; NCHA Player of the the team was selected for United States Track R.H. “Bob” Peters would open doors and lay Peninsula, and the rest is history. Academic All-NSIC selection. During her collegiate opened the preseason with the Raiders against his the groundwork for his life’s work as a coach, Year in 1982; member of BSU Athletic Hall of Fame as part career she has accumulated 451 kills and 40 blocks hometown Minnesota Vikings at TCF Bank Stadium, & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association “That was my first real experience with eventually leading him back to Bemidji State. of the 1978-79 and 1979-80 hockey teams. in 255 sets played. and on Sept. 28 became the first former Beaver to Division II All-Academic Team honors. Bemidji coaching, and it was one year there and then I got a full-time assistant job at Western Kalis and VanHaaften named 2013-14 score a regular-season NFL touchdown. He caught State, which carried a 3.09 cumulative team In June, Scanlan became the fifth head coach in COACHING CAREER: Graduate assistant coach and a three-yard pass from Derek Carr in a loss to the grade point average in 2013-14, was one of 105 BSU women’s hockey history when he was hired Michigan,” he said. “I am really fortunate that assistant coach, Northern Michigan University men’s Student-athletes of the year to replace Steve Sertich, who retired after eight worked out the way it did.” Miami Dolphins at Wembley Stadium in London. institutions from across the country to be hon- hockey, 1984-89; assistant coach, University of North Bemidji State University years with the program. After a four-year stint at Western Michigan, midfielderTiffany VanHaaf- BSU to compete in North Star College Cup ored with the all-academic award ... MEN’S GOLF Dakota men’s hockey, 1989-96; head coach, East Grand “It feels really, really good,” Scanlan said. “I still Scanlan landed a job as an assistant coach at the ten (Sr., Chaska, Minn.) and Bragging rights are up for grabs Jan. 23-24 as competed in nine events in 2013-14 and posted Forks High School boys’ hockey, 1996-2005, four-time pinch myself, to be honest with you. To come University of North Dakota, where he remained first baseman/pitcherLogan Bemidji State makes its inaugural appearance in two top-five finishes, which included a Husky to work at the Sanford Center every day, and until 1996. Section 8A Coach of the Year; head coach, East Grand Kalis (Sr., Little Falls, Minn.) the North Star College Cup. The four-team classic Classic team title. Led by a 77.7 stroke aver- to work with these talented young ladies, is Forks High School girls’ hockey, 2008-14, and Minnesota were named Female and featuring the state of Minnesota’s NCAA Division For the past 18 years, he has spent time as an age from Second Team All-NSIC golfer Andrew just phenomenal.” Class A Coach of the Year 2014. Male Student-Athletes I men’s hockey teams will be held at Xcel Energy educator, coach and activities director in the East Benson, the Beavers’ team average of 314.2 of the Year to conclude Center in conjunction with the 2015 St. Paul Winter Scanlan’s coaching career got its start in 1984 Grand Forks School District. He served as the PERSONAL: He and his wife, Cyndy (Woods) ’81, have a was seventh in the NSIC. Benson finished 10th when a former teammate pitched the idea to the Green Wave’s boy’s hockey coach from 1996 to 2013-14. The duo of All- Carnival. BSU will open its bid for the coveted North son and three grown daughters, one of whom is a Star College Cup trophy at 4 p.m. Jan. 23 versus at the NSIC Championship and was among the minor-league goaltender. 2005, during which he led EGF to a 148-109- Logan Kalis NSIC athletes was selected freshman at Bemidji State. from a pool of nominated University of Minnesota Duluth. Tickets for the four- top 20 individuals at three events, which in- “I had a free-agent tryout with the Buffalo 15 record, four section titles and four state tournament appearances, finishing as high as student-athletes from the game event are on sale now. cluded capturing medalist honors at the Husky Sabers following my senior year, got bounced university’s 15 intercol- down through the minor leagues and wound up second in 1999. 26 Beavers make NSIC academic list Classic Sept. 22-23 with a one-over-par 145 (73- Early in the season, it looks like Scanlan is legiate sport programs. In playing for the Warroad Lakers in the senior ‘A’ Most recently, Scanlan completed his sixth Bemidji State landed 26 student-athletes on the 72)... WOMEN’S GOLF placed ninth at the 2013-14 settling into his new job nicely. The team is off addition, Brittni Mowat (Fr., league,” he said. season as head coach of the EGF girl’s ice 2014 spring Academic All-NSIC team. To be eligible to the best start in school history, and Scanlan Glenboro, Man.) of the NSIC Championships. Sophomore Olivia Knutson hockey team, compiling an overall record of 110- for the Academic All-NSIC team, student-athletes “I had done that for two years when Mike is getting contributions from every player on women’s hockey team and (Hatton, N.D.) finished the 72-hole event at +61 51-6. His 2013-14 Green Wave team posted a 26- must maintain a gradepoint average of 3.20 or Gibbons, who was an assistant coach at Northern the roster. men’s basketball standout (349) to lead BSU and tie for 13th place individu- 3-1 record, earned a Section 8A championship, better, be a member of a varsity traveling team, Michigan, called to asked if I would be interested Brock Lutes ( Jr., Portland, and climbed to No. 1 in the state’s ranking before While he may have picked up pointers from and have reached sophomore athletic and academic ally ... Led by the senior duo of Nicole Dupay (OF, in being a graduate assistant,” he added. “NMU Ore.) were selected BSU’s falling in the 2014 Minnesota state championship other coaches along the way and developed standing at his or her institution with one full year Woodbury) and Megan Bergeson (IF/C, Spicer), needed a goaltender coach. Tiffany VanHaaften 2013-14 Female and Male game. After the season, Scanlan was named some of his own coaching habits, most of completed at that campus. The baseball team led the BSU SOFTBALL team posted an 11-31 record Newcomers of the Year, while Kelly Blair (So., Inter- Minnesota Class “A” Coach of the Year. Scanlan’s playbook stems from the blueprint BSU’s spring contingent with eight student-athletes in 2014. Bergeson and Dupay finished their col- national Falls), Rachel Craig ( Jr., Wadena), Emily Turner he received as a Bemidji State hockey player. recognized for academic accomplishment, while six Now back at BSU, where he met his wife, Cyndy, (So., Windom) and Reid Mimmack (So., Brainerd) legiate careers second and third on BSU all-time “To come to work at the Sanford Center members of the women’s track and field team, five and earned nearly 70 wins in net en route to a “Bemidji State has meant so much to my picked up Female and Male Scholar Athlete of the games-played list, and Dupay cemented herself from the women’s golf team, three student-athletes pair of national titles, the NCHA Player of the family and me,” he said. “To be able to Year honors. among the top 10 BSU players all-time in seven every day, and to work with these talented from the softball and women’s tennis teams, and Year award and NAIA All-American awards come back and work here as the head one member of the men’s golf team were selected offensive categories, including home runs (8), young ladies, is just phenomenal.” in 1981 and 1982, Scanlan is charged with women’s hockey coach is a once-in-a-lifetime to the 2014 all-academic squad. runs batted in (53) and hits (102). propelling the BSU women’s hockey team to opportunity. It’s really, really special.” – JIM SCANLAN new heights as it competes in the toughest women’s hockey league in the nation.

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If your tongue gets twisted saying how to multitask and take advantage of residency at the Twin Cities campus. After “Someone told me once to otolaryngology, you might see Dr. Abby opportunities is something I still do now.” finishing her pediatric ENT fellowship at (Stritesky) Meyer ’01 to diagnose and treat it At BSU, Meyer experienced both athletic Seattle Children’s Hospital/University of spend time doing the things you love. – but only if you’re a child. No matter how old and academic success. A top infielder and Washington, she returned to Minnesota to That was great advice.” you are, you might prefer to call her a pitcher in softball program history, she join the faculty at UM. She is nearing pediatric ENT (ear, nose and throat) physician. helped the 1999 softball team win an NSIC completion of a master’s degree in public – DR. ABBY MEYER A board-certified otolaryngologist with championship and was a Third Team health (MPH) in epidemiology. Children’s Hospitals and Clinics of Minne- Academic All-America selection in 2000. Meyer said her MPH has opened up a new doing research to contribute to her field – to sota—Minneapolis (University of Minnesota She is one of only 20 Beaver student-athletes side of medicine for her. She volunteers with make a difference. As her practice evolves, Physicians), Meyer enjoys the complex to earn that honor since 1977. the Minnesota Department of Health’s the Ogilvie native continues to learn and anatomy of the head and neck. She is She graduated summa cum laude with a 4.0 newborn hearing screening team. They apply her knowledge as a more senior fascinated by medical conditions that grade point average in a pre-medical program basically follow children who have been partner in her practice. present uniquely in children, and she Openshaw describes as “very challenging.” He diagnosed with hearing loss. She also joyfully embraces her favorite treasures the opportunity to help patients called her “a student’s student whose tenacity “I think I get more out of it than they get “job” – being mom to sons Lincoln, 2, and and their families navigate through and discipline achieved excellence in all Abby out of me,” Meyer said. Harrison, 4. With husband and fellow Bemidji challenging situations. wanted to accomplish as an undergraduate Her professional work closely aligns with the State graduate Chris Meyer ’01, who is a “Taking care of kids makes me happy,” student at Bemidji State University.” mission of Lion’s Club International, of which seventh-grade history teacher and varsity PHOTO CREDIT: CHILDREN’S HOSPITALS AND CLINICS OF MINNESOTA OF CLINICS AND HOSPITALS CHILDREN’S CREDIT: PHOTO Meyer said, “And working with families is “I never saw Abby without a textbook, even she is a member. Meyer treats children through football coach in Monticello, she continues to just such a joy.” when she worked-out at BSU’s Gillett the Lions Children’s Hearing and use the multitasking skills she honed at BSU Meyer originally thought her love of sports Rec-Fitness Center,” Openshaw said. ENT Clinic at University of Minnesota at the family’s home in Brooklyn Park. would transition into a career as an “The same kind of discipline she displayed Masonic Children’s Hospital. She also raises Meyer believes prioritizing her time, having orthopedic surgeon. She even served as a as a student, she displayed as an athlete.” awareness and funds by participating in events help from family and not fretting about the student athletic trainer for BSU’s football After graduating from BSU, Meyer went to such as the Lions Multiple District 5M Hearing small stuff is really important. and women’s basketball teams to prepare to medical school at the University of Minnesota Foundation’s “D-Feet Hearing Loss” walk. “Someone told me once to spend time doing study sports medicine. However, during her Medical School Twin Cities campus for four Named one of Minnesota Monthly’s the things you love,” she said. “That was third year of medical school she discovered years. She then completed a five-year ENT “Best Doctors” in 2014, she looks forward to great advice.” a better fit during her ENT rotation. Although her chosen specialty deviated slightly from her original goal, it was clear from the beginning that she had a plan. Dr. Abby Meyer ‘01 examines a young patient at Children’s Hospitals and Clinics of Minnesota. According to her BSU advisor Dr. Kerry L. Openshaw, Meyer knew what experiences she wanted to get out of the five years she planned to spend in college before she even started. Both Meyer and Openshaw credit Bemidji “I got to do all these things that I don’t think I would State with offering Meyer a unique opportunity to compete in college sports have been able to do at the other schools I looked at. (softball and volleyball), study abroad, Learning how to multitask and take advantage participate in theater and even take a choir class. She did all those things while earning of opportunities is something I still do now.” a bachelor of science in biology with minors in chemistry, exercise science and Spanish. – DR. ABBY MEYER Meyer received a full-tuition scholarship, Dr. Abby Meyer ‘01 with her husband, which helped finalize her decision to attend. Chris Meyer ‘01, and their sons Lincoln “I got to do all these things that I don’t think (left) and Harrison in Bemidji’s Diamond I would have been able to do at the other Point Park before the BSU Homecoming schools I looked at,” she said, “Learning football game on Oct. 18.

22 | BEMIDJI STATE UNIVERSITY www.BemidjiState.edu | 23 EYE ON THE FUTURE has guided Reierson to SUCCESS

By Maryhelen Chadwick

Roger Reierson ’74 came to Bemidji State existing clients. They keep clients by staying Chief operating officer Andy Reierson, Roger’s University with one idea in mind for his future in front of trends and new technology. They son, praises his father’s vision and ability to and left with the skills and desire to follow his regularly bring in experts on the cutting edge build relationships, always with the first passion in a different field. of their fields to speak to staff and clients. priority being to help people. Growing up in a family of bankers, Reierson “If we don’t stay ahead of the curve, our “He’s a genuine person, and he wants to do figured he would follow a similar career path. clients will look elsewhere.” Reierson said. what he can to help businesses and He interned at a bank and earned a bachelor Reierson said he first realized staying ahead of communities he’s involved with prosper and of science in business administration with a technology would be paramount to business grow,” the younger Reierson said. marketing emphasis and a minor in finance, success when he was a BSU student. He but photography, radio and speech classes remembers learning to program a room-sized “Part of success is being in the right place at the – and the professors who taught them computer with punch cards, and even then – opened up up the possibilities in marketing the systems changed often. Despite the right time. You also have to recognize an opportunity and communications. speed of change, he knows it’s important to Using his degree to get his first job after keep things in perspective. and be willing to take risks and put the effort in.” college as business manager of a small Thief “The biggest thing is not to get too excited,” River Falls communications firm, Quillan and Reierson said, “We keep a calm, even mindset – ROGER REIERSON Associates, Reierson quickly gravitated about the future. We just keep doing the work toward creative and strategic work with and doing it well.” The elder Reierson fosters that development clients. and growth through civic engagement on Flint Group’s sister company, AdFarm, is a local, state and national levels. He contributes Two years later, he and his wife, Arlene, marketing, branding and digital agency his business expertise as a thought leader and moved to Fargo so she could complete her focusing on the communication needs of officer for many groups, including: the Greater elementary education degree. He joined agriculture businesses with offices in several North Dakota State Chamber Association, the Harold E. Flint and Associates, thinking they locations in the United States and Canada. North Plains Chapter of the Public Relations would move on when she finished school. For “To work in the ag field, we need to be where Society of America and the National the next several years, Reierson worked on the farming is taking place,” Reierson said, Agri-Marketing Association (NAMA). accounts with the owner. They got along well, “Different environments require different and he fell in love with the business. One of his proudest professional moments practices.” came in 2011 when NAMA chose him as Reierson and two partners bought the firm In 2009, he accompanied Praxis Strategy National Agri-Marketer of the Year. Leader- when he was 34. Those partners are no longer Group CEO Delore Zimmerman on an ship, charisma and vision were qualities cited involved with the business. Nearly 40 years economic development mission. Praxis and in NAMA’s announcement of its most later, he’s still there – as CEO and chairman of a AdFarm formed Praxis Africa to identify and prestigious award. Reierson established group composed of several marketing develop opportunities in agribusiness and NAMA’s Northern Prairie Chapter in 1986 and communications businesses, including Flint microbusiness in the region. has served as chapter president several times. Group and AdFarm. They work with young farmers to find best Even though he began by pursuing a career “Part of success is being in the right place at practices to produce food with high vitamin he was not going to be happy in, Reierson the right time,” Reierson said, “You also have value. Ideally, the farms will produce crops remembers his days at BSU fondly and is a to recognize an opportunity and be willing to that will not just feed but commercially grateful for what he learned. take risks and put the effort in.” benefit the village. “Without those accounting classes and those Under his leadership, the business has grown Roger Reierson ‘74 is pictured in the Fargo Reierson’s organization also works with business management classes, I don’t think from a small, downtown Fargo firm of 13 to an office of the marketing and communications groups, clients and a sister school in I could be where I am today,” he said, “And international business that employs more group that he leads as CEO and chairman, Minnetonka to help schools in Ghana. So without the instructors that showed me what than 200. Roger Reierson ‘74 participates in an Oct. 17 Alumni far the schools have received 30 computers mass communications could be, I wouldn’t be including The Flint Group and AdFarm. Leaders in the Classroom panel on careers in mass Expansion came from aggressively seeking and solar lights so students can do in this position and I wouldn’t be in this communication during Homecoming at Bemidji State. accounts while keeping partnerships with homework after dark. profession today.”

24 | BEMIDJI STATE UNIVERSITY www.BemidjiState.edu | 25 1. Bemidji State Alumni Choir. 2. Lauren Vogt, Dr. Lee Norman ’74 and Dr. Stephen Vogt ‘85. 3. Joe Dunn, Dan Bennett ‘10, ‘13 and Taylor Sautbine ’13. HONORS 4. John Baer, Tiffany Baer Paine and Dr. Richard Hanson. 5. Robert Krowech ’72 and Gia DesLauriers. 6. Jon McTaggart ’83, Dave Sorensen ’72, 5 Julie Zabloski and Jeff Kemink. GALA 2 More than 350 people gathered Oct. 24 for BSU’s 2014 Homecoming Honors Gala in the Sanford Center ballroom. The event included recognition of Outstanding Alumni and Alumni Service award recipients, 1 3 4 6 presentation of memorial videos honoring the late Joe Lueken Created in 1972, the Outstanding Alumni Award is the Alumni Association’s highest honor and and Peggy Johnson ’67, acknowl- OUTSTANDING ALUMNI takes into consideration an alum’s professional accomplishments and community service. Including ALUMNI SERVICE edgment of new President’s and the 2014 honorees, there are 182 Bemidji State alumni who have received this award. Award Created in 2011, the Alumni Service Award Award recognizes significant service contributions an Legacy Society donors, and an alumnus has made to community, state or nation. announcement that the Imagine Kirk Gregg ’81 Lori (Jones) Carmichael ’86 Robert Krowech ’72 Dr. Christopher Waller ’81 Kirk Gregg has served as Lori Carmichael grew up Robert Krowech founded Eden Dr. Christopher Waller, senior Tomorrow campaign had Corning Incorporated’s chief on a farm near St. Francis. Prairie-based Heat Recovery vice president and director Randy Bowen ’73 administrative officer since She knew she wanted System Technology (HRST), of research at the Federal Randy Bowen has been a tire- reached the $31 million mark. 2002. He oversees human to attend a small school, Inc. in 1998 and remains CEO. Reserve Bank of St. Louis, less volunteer and advocate for resources, information and BSU was a great After growing up on a dairy earned a bachelor’s degree Bemidji State since graduating technology, procurement fit for her. She gradu- farm near Roseau, he began from Bemidji State followed with a degree in education. and transportation, aviation, ated with an accounting at BSU in 1964 but was not by a master’s (1984) and a Bowen works as placement community affairs, govern- degree before joining motivated. He received a post- Ph.D. (1985) in economics from coordinator at the College of St. ment affairs, business ser- the Internal Revenue card from an uncle who was Washington State University. Scholastica in Hermantown. vices and corporate security. Service as a revenue working at a steel mill in Gary, Waller began his career as part As a volunteer, he served Gregg graduated cum laude from Bemidji State agent. She became a group manager in 2000 Ind. Krowech moved there and worked as a materi- of the economics faculty at Indiana University. At the eight years on the BSU Alumni with a bachelor’s degree in psychology and and was involved in the hiring and training als tester. He was drafted into the Vietnam War and University of Kentucky, he served as a professor and Association Board of Directors, minors in economics and business administra- of new revenue agents. Her responsibilities attended training in Georgia. He re-enrolled at BSU C.M. Gatton Chair of Monetary Economics. He went including six years as an officer, with the last two tion. He attended the University of Minnesota for included resolving a variety of issues facing much more motivated and got degrees in math and on to become a professor and Gilbert F. Schaefer as president. As president, he represented the a master’s degree in industrial relations (a/b/d) taxpayers, representatives and the IRS physics in 1972. Continuing his studies, he earned a Chair of Economics at the University of Notre Dame, Alumni Association at numerous events through- and is a Sloan Fellow from M.I.T.’s Sloan School of organization. master’s degree in mechanical engineering in 1974 where he served as a research fellow with the Na- out the state and region, including Commence- Management. In 2008, the IRS chose Carmichael to be a from the University of Minnesota. novic Institute for European Studies and the Kellogg ment ceremonies. After completing two terms of Gregg joined Corning in 1993 as director of technical advisor to the small-business, Krowech started HRST to provide superior boiler Institute for International Studies. Other academic service on the Alumni Board, Bowen was asked to executive compensation. He was then named self-employed Midwest-area exam director. engineering and on-site power plant technical ser- assignments included visiting professorships at the help lead the formation of the Alumni B-Club and vice president of executive resources and em- As the technical advisor, she oversaw and vice. According to a 2013 profile in Twin Cities University of Bonn, Germany; University of Canter- was a founding member of the National Alumni ployee benefits and later senior vice president, supported staffing, operational reviews and Business magazine, he applied a unique approach bury, New Zealand; Kiev-Mohyla National University, Football Committee. He is the B-Club president administration. Previously he held various roles a myriad of other tasks for a 10-state area. to motivating and compensating employees as his Ukraine; and the University of Mannheim, Germany. and helps host the football reunion held each year Waller’s work has been published in a variety of of increasing responsibility at General Dynamics In 2009, Carmichael was accepted to the business grew. According to the company’s web- during Homecoming. scholarly journals such as the American Economic Corporation. Senior Management Readiness Program, and site, “Rather than offer lucrative salaries to attract A popular emcee of the B-Club Athletic Hall of Review and the Quarterly Journal of Economics. Prior to Corning, Gregg was corporate direc- in 2012 she was selected as a senior manager. people, our company relies on profit sharing, and Fame induction brunch and various Beaver Pride tor, key management programs, for General She now manages eight groups of revenue to have profits, we need to work hard and smart, Dr. Robert Ley, one of Waller’s professor’s at BSU luncheons, Bowen readily offers to dedicate his Dynamics Corporation. He was responsible for agents located primarily in Wisconsin and and have loyal clients.” underscores the impressive nature of Waller’s time and expertise to assist his alma mater. accomplishments as well as the contributions he executive compensation and benefits, execu- northern Michigan. The magazine article also highlighted Krowech’s In addition to his longtime commitment to BSU, makes to the field and his community. “Most econ- tive development and recruiting. He previously Throughout her career, Carmichael has men- success as a competitive body builder and power Bowen has spent many years volunteering for omists would agree he has helped in important held positions at the operating-unit level in labor tored her employees and challenged them to lifter. He has won the over-50 Mr. Minnesota athletic groups in his hometown of Hermantown. ways to advance our understanding of monetary relations, salaried compensation, human resource develop their skills, confidence and profession- bodybuilding contest twice – often defeating much He coached many youth sports and this year will and financial economics, as well as effectiveness of information systems, organizational training and alism as they pursue careers throughout the younger participants. He has set state, national serve as a volunteer golf coach at Hermantown monetary policy,” Ley said. development, and information technology. IRS organization. and world records in powerlifting. 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A parade, a game, a plunge and a party Alumnae at in the parade. Outstanding Alumni Award recipient Dr. Chris- the pre-game tailgate in Diamond Point Park. Homecoming topher Waller and Bucky. Football team runs onto the field. Parade Grand Marshalls Dr. Art and Judy Lee. Carol Beaver Block Party in downtown Bemidji. Homecoming King and Russell ’74, BSU Foundation board president, and Jeff Kemink, Queen Randall Riehl and Brittany Hull. Post-game victory plunge outgoing president. International Student Organization marches in Lake Bemidji.

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Tradition, pride, enrichment and a chilly dousing during the Outdoor Program Center’s Waterfront Wednesday on Aug. 28. Nearly 1,000 students were invited to graduate on May 9. Bemidji Officials and students joined in a Sept. 4 groundbreaking ceremony MusiCamp was held July 20-26. Poet Aimee Nezhukumatathil was for the renovation of Memorial Hall. Dr. Richard Hanson, president; Bill among presenters at BSU’s Minnesota Northwoods Writers Conference Maki, vice president for administration and finance; and Dr. Martin Tadlock, June 20-26. Design and drawing students sketched outdoors on Sept. 6. provost, took the ALS Bucket Challenge on Aug. 26. International Freshman Convocation was held on Aug. 24. Time for a “selfie” students posed with Bucky during Community Appreciation Day on Sept. 4.

30 | BEMIDJI STATE UNIVERSITY www.BemidjiState.edu | 31 President Richard Hanson throws out the first pitch July 25 before a Minnesota Twins game on MNSCU Night at Target Field. Class Notes Towns are in Minnesota unless noted. Alumni names appear in bold. Send information to [email protected] Courtney Bischof, hired to teach at the elementary school in BSU TO COMPETE IN or call toll free: 1-877-BSU-ALUM. NORTH STAR TOURNEY; his fiancé, is an Fosston. She previously taught first grade accountant and in Grand Rapids ... Kimberly Grahek is MCGOVERN’S WILL BE ALUMNI CENTRAL office manager for employed as a special education teacher at The Bemidji State, Minnesota State, Minnesota Duluth Strong Insurance in Paul Bunyan Elementary School in Bemidji, Beau Peterson & and Minnesota men’s hockey teams will compete in the Ortonville, where the Courtney Bischof where she lives with her husband, John ...

four-game North Star College Cup tournament on Friday engaged couple is looking for a farmstead Drew Fisher has signed a contract to play Anna Goldtooth is the education and Saturday, Jan. 23-24, at the Xcel Energy Center in ‘14 to purchase ... Brad Albano is co-manager another year with the Tulsa (Okla.) Oilers, and outreach program manager for Planned downtown St. Paul. of Farmington Health and Fitness. A resident a minor pro team in the Central Hockey Parenthood in Minnesota, North Dakota and of Cannon Falls, he had League. A winger, Fisher has played in 144 The Beavers will face Minnesota Duluth at 4:07 p.m. on South Dakota. She meets with community served as an assistant consecutive games and scored 72 points Jan. 23, followed by Minnesota State versus Minnesota. leaders, speaks at conferences and delivers football and gymnastics for the Oilers over two seasons ... Dustin Game results will determine the next day’s schedule. training sessions to youth. Goldtooth lives in coach at Farmington Sluzewicz married Ashlee Ellefsen (’11) Bemidji ... Chris Richardson of Bemidji was Fans will be able to come and go between games. High School ... Bethany this summer. Both are employed by the 1965 grads preparing for 50th reunion hired to serve as an inspector monitoring Thompson is the junior Spring Lake Park school district, Ashlee Join BSU fans for a pre-game gathering both days at on busy weekend next summer for invasive species at boat accesses to varsity volleyball coach at as a second-grade teacher at Northpoint Patrick McGovern’s Pub & Restaurant on Seventh Street, The class of 1965 will be heading back to Bemidji July 31-Aug. Bemidji-area lakes ... Briana Rueter is the Brad Albano Benilde-St. Margaret’s High Elementary and new head girls’ gymnastics coach at Bemidji within walking distance of the arena. A single ticket for 2. Activities being planned include a dinner Saturday night School in St. Louis Park. Thompson, who Dustin as a physical High School and is teaching second grade $80 covers all four games. To order NSCC tickets, at BSU’s American Indian Resource Center. The event was plans on substitute teaching this year, lives education and health at Northern Elementary School in Bemidji, contact Tony Barber at 218-441-4018 or tbarber@ moved to allow participants to take advantage of the Dragon in Minneapolis ... Maleah Pedersen is a instructor at the high where she resides ... Nate Hayes is a new new fourth-grade teacher at an elementary school, where he thesanfordcenter.net. Boat Festival and other area activities that weekend. police officer in Baudette, where he lives school in Blue Earth ... Samantha Geisler has also serves on the

NEWS Six individuals, one team to be inducted Class of 1964-65 members should update their contact ... Lauren Hayes is the new kindergarten been hired as a police officer track coaching staff. into BSU Athletic Hall of Fame Feb. 21 information (especially email addresses). Go to bsualumni. teacher at Cuyuna Range Elementary School in Maple Grove. Geisler, who The couple lives in The B-Club Athletic Hall of Fame will honor new and in Crosby. Dustin Sluzewicz & org and click the “Update your contact information here” lives in Champlin, previously Ashlee Ellefsen Blaine.

former inductees at a brunch on Feb. 21. BSU’s 2015 button or call the alumni office at 877-278-2586. Make your worked as a corrections officer Maureen Shelton was named vice honorees include: Ron Bornetun 1976-80, Bruce Ecklund hotel reservations now or consider reserving a room on ‘13 in the Sherburne County ‘11 Maddie Draper of Bemidji will move 1980-83, Jim Scanlan 1978-82, and Kim (Babula) Zerr president of operations Sheriff’s Office ...Sarah Nelson from the Red Lake school system to Bemidji campus (Linden Hall). Visit bsualumni.org for more informa- and information 1983-87, who will be inducted into the Athletic Hall of is an administrative assistant Middle School this fall to teach special tion beginning Jan. 1. technology security Fame; the newest selection for the Alumni Coaching Samantha Gisler in the Deer River City Hall. She education. officer at Lakeview Achievement Award Gail (Hecimovich) Nucech 1967-69, Three join BSU Foundation Board also works part-time at a local restaurant, Bank. A resident of bank and craft store. She and her partner, Elizabeth Grace (Becker) of and the 2015 John S. Glas Honorary Letter winner, Joe Cynthia Cashman ’85, Paul Jensen ’95 and Stephen Vogt ’85 ‘10 Shakopee, she will be Lance Kossow, live in Deer River with a Aventura, Fla., has authored three books: Dunn. In addition, Bemidji State’s 1979-80 men’s are the newest members of the BSU Foundation board. They responsible for the young child. the “24 Hours Miami” travel guide as swimming and diving team will be enshrined into BSU’s bring diverse backgrounds and a unified desire to give back Maureen Shelton operation, accounting well as the children’s books “A Hollywood to their new roles. Team Hall of Fame. and IT functions at the bank in Lakeview Amy Guntzel is teaching preschool Trail” and “Patches.” Another travel book ... Annie Ullrich has been hired as the ‘12 Alumni Relative Scholarship Cashman of Brooklyn Park is chief development officer for classes at Heartland Christian Academy is due in 2015. She works as a marketing education coordinator of the Supplemental application deadline is Feb. 1 the University of Minnesota College of Food, Agriculture and in Bemidji, where she lives ... Capt. Mike manager for the IT staffing firm PROTECH Nutrition Assistance Program serving Alumni can sponsor relatives attending BSU as incoming Natural Resource Sciences. Jensen, who lives in Fergus Falls, Wedin has been promoted to the rank in Boca Raton, Fla., and as a freelance Mahnomen and Becker counties as well of captain and is the writer in Miami, Fla. … Josiah Hoagland is freshmen, returning and transfer students. The is assistant general counsel for AgCountry Farm Credit as part of Clearwater County. She will new commander of the lead pastor at New Journey Church in scholarship awards are $1,000 and $750 respectively. Services. Vogt of Libertyville, Ill., is chief investment officer be presenting educational programs and the Minnesota State Fosston while continuing his career in the This year $41,000 was awarded. For complete informa- for Mesirow Advanced Strategies, Inc. They each began classes to qualifying youth and adults in Patrol district that U.S. Army Reserve, which included drill three-year terms in November. tion and an application, go to: bsualumni.org/alumni/ such areas as cooking, healthy eating and serves southwest sergeant training this summer in Columbia, programs/scholarship. The application deadline is Feb. 1. Alumni Leaders in the Classroom nutrition. She will live in Bagley ... Air Force Minnesota. Wedin, S.C. He and his wife, Lisa, live in Fosston connects students and professionals Airman 1st Class Jessica Pearce graduated whose experience also from basic training in San Antonio, Texas. PCI updating information for alumni directory During Homecoming Week, the Alumni & Foundation hosted Mike Wedin includes stints as a An honors graduate, her studies included BSU is working with an outside vendor (PCI) to verify five Alumni Leader in the Classroom panels (education, sheriff’s deputy and police officer in North military discipline, Air Force core values, Dakota, started with the state patrol in 2004 alumni information for an alumni directory project. You accounting, business, mass communication and health ALUMNI physical fitness and basic warfare principles. as a road trooper. He and his wife, April, already may have received a postcard, email and/or professions). More than 250 students were able to learn She is from Warroad ... Beau Peterson is live in Marshall with their three children phone call asking to confirm your records or update about “real world” experiences in their fields from 24 alumni the Farm Bill wildlife biologist with the Big ... Grant Gmeinder of Baxter will be the them. We appreciate your cooperation with this project. at various stages in their careers. Stone Soil and Water Conservation District in head girls’ soccer coach this fall at Brainerd Check out our frequently asked questions page at Ortonville, where he works on conservation High School. Gmeinder previously taught bsualumni.org, email [email protected] or call programs and assists farmers in improving on the elementary level in the district, 218-755-3989 with questions. their land while enhancing wildlife habitat. where he will serve as a substitute teacher Josiah & Lisa Hoagland this school year ... Katie Mrazek has been { continued on next page }

32 | 32 | BEMIDJI STATE UNIVERSITY BEMIDJI STATE UNIVERSITY www.BemidjiState.edu | 33 Class Notes Towns are in Minnesota unless noted. Alumni names appear in bold. Send information to [email protected] public boat landings throughout Cass County is a senior graphic designer in the proposal Steve ... Shane Dagoberg has been hired bowls, coffee mugs, vases and other or call toll free: 1-877-BSU-ALUM. ... Lia Henningsgaard is the mathematics development center of the Compass Group as a communication program associate to pieces. His work can be viewed at www. and reading recovery teacher at Central of North America, while Nathan is a model assist the Minnesota Wheat Research and etsy.com/shop/cyrusthepotter. He and his Elementary School in Bemidji. She came to builder at Electrolux ... Carly Melin won a Promotion Council in their interaction with partner, Tanya Ryappy, have two young the district from the Bug-O-Nay-Ge-Shig 2014 Public Policy Award from Politics in wheat growers across the state and region. children ... Holly and school ... Ann Olson was Minnesota, a public affairs news service, He and his wife, Megan, live on a farm near Aaron Peterson started with one child ... Joel Van Nurden married named an outstanding and Capitol Report, an independent Alvarado with their two toddlers ... Ryan their own insurance Anna Dapper in a ceremony last spring. Van alumna at Itasca newspaper covering the Legislature and Gall and his wife, Katie, have a newborn agency, Up North Nurden is a lawyer at the Waldeck Law Firm Community College. A state politics. A state representative, Melin in their Eagan home. Ryan is a registered Insurance, in Cloquet. in Minneapolis. licensed alcohol and is an attorney in Hibbing, where she lives nurse at Golden Living Lake Ridge. Aaron brings 11 years The couple resides drug counselor, Olson with a young child and Holly nine years of in Minneapolis ... is the CEO, owner and and her husband, ‘05 Brandon Bjerkness is the new Holly Peterson insurance experience to Sasha (Demoret) Ann Olson 09 operator of Rapids Zeb Norenberg ... assistant principal at their new venture. They Almendinger has Counseling in Grand Rapids, where she Rachel (Korbel) the Bemidji Middle have two young children

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{ been hired as an English teacher a pre-teen daughter ... Sean Moran will development previously served as ... Mary Proulx won a Joel Van Nurden at Bemidji High work a dual position this year, serving as officer at Goodwill- the dean of students. T-shirt design contest ‘PEOPLE PERSON’ Rachel & Ryan Hickock School and lives in Bemidji. She previously the manager for the Northwest Minnesota Easter Seals He and his wife, Angela, for the annual ArtSoup ROEHRICH BELIES taught in the Red Lake school district ... Foundation’s entrepreneur development Minnesota in St. Paul. Ryan Hickock, her live in Bemidji with Festival held over the PRISON STEREOTYPE Shiloh and Trent Nelson (’09) welcomed a program as well as the program director for husband, works as the public access lead Brandon Bjerkes their young child ... Dr. Aaron Peterson summer in Elk River. new baby into their Urbana, Ill., home this the Northwest Small Business Development at Suburban Community Channels in White Josh Overgaard will be joining the Lake Proulx is a graphic designer for DecoPac, When the public talks about prison wardens, they summer. Trent is an academic advisor in the Center. Both organizations are located in Bear Lake. They have a young child and live Region Healthcare staff in Battle Lake which supplies cake decorations to bakeries describe a stereotypically tough, cold and hard College of Media at the University of Illinois Bemidji, where he has moved ... Charles in New Brighton. as part of the internal medicine staff. He ... Ekren Miller is in his fifth year as the individual. They certainly don’t think about Connie Urbana-Champaign ... Wendy Fink of Sauk Grolla of Bemidji received a Minnesota most recently was chief resident at Abbott head men’s golf coach Roehrich, a 1974 BSU grad who was the first female Rapids is an account manager at Gaslight Ornithologists’ Union Grant to produce a ‘06 Jarrid Houston was hired by Northwestern in the Twin Cities. He and his at Bemidji State. He also warden of an all-male prison in Minnesota and finished Creative, a full-service marketing firm in St. book on the state’s birds with their Ojibwe DSGW Architects as a wife, Shauna, have two children. teaches Spanish at Trek her 36-year correctional career managing the state’s largest lockup. Cloud. Fink previously worked four years in names and cultural associations. Grolla specifications writer and North schools in Bemidji, banking. teaches Ojibwe language in the Cass Lake- estimator for offices in ‘04 Jeffrey Lorenson has been named where he lives with his “They are surprised,” Roehrich said. “I’m a good people Bena school district. Virginia, Grand Rapids, the new athletic director at the high school wife, Kari, the director of person, and that served me well in corrections. Wardens in Minnesota are down to earth and think Shawn Rakowski has been hired Duluth and Lake Elmo. in Davis, Calif. He previously taught physical admissions at Northwest ‘09 about what is best for offenders.” as a senior software engineer at Saturn ‘08 Erin Peitso will be moving this fall He will also assist education and served as athletic director Ekren Miller Technical College ... Systems, a Duluth consulting firm providing from the fourth grade to the kindergarten with the construction at two other California high schools. His Bryan Anderson will teach math at the First She carries that people-to-people attitude in software development and quality classroom at Tower-Soudan Elementary Jarrid Houston administration process. wife, Christi, is the marketing and referral City School in the Bemidji school district. He retirement to her volunteer work. A member and former chair of the Affinity Plus Federal Credit Union assurance services. He telecommutes for his School, where she also serves as the He recently married Brandy Beeman, and managing director at a veteran’s hospital in and his wife, Heather (’04, Eidsmore), live board, Roehrich serves because she believes in the new position from Thief River Falls, where facility’s technology person and advises the couple lives in South Range, Wis. ... Roseville, Calif. The couple has two young in Bemidji. philosophy of the member-driven cooperative. She a student newspaper for grades four to Heidi Myogeto has been promoted to children and lives in Sacramento, Calif. he lives with his wife, Carrie (Vansickle), actively participates on the 108 Degrees board as it six. She and her husband, Terry, have two a retail banking Candi Walz married Brian Seil a financial accountant at Arctic Cat. The ‘02 turns lives around to support safer communities with couple has one young child ... Jamie teenagers and live in Soudan ... Travis manager position at ‘03 Hilary Horn is a claims last summer during a ceremony in Costa programs for youth, adults and families. Heurung was named program director for Whittington is the new math specialist Roundbank’s New representative with the Social Security Rica. Walz, who is the congressional But her people focus moves beyond state boundaries assigned to Horace May Elementary Prague facility. She Administration office in Bemidji. She and correspondence supervisor at Helping Hands, through Partners of the Americas, a nonprofit School in Bemidji, where he resides. He will continue in a her husband, Jeff, live in Guthrie with UnitedHealthcare, had her project, Let’s a non-profit promoting economic and social development in Holdingford previously taught in the Cass Lake-Bena customer service their three children ... Krista Ringstrom Talk Kids: Brainbuilder Kits, selected as throughout the Western Hemisphere. Minnesota dedicated to district ... Neal Smith recently joined URS role with the Schmitz is an instructional coach for special a finalist in the social entrepreneurship connected with Uruguay through the program. helping people with as a scientist providing technical studies, Heidi (Myogeto) Thomson institution while education at Rocori Schools in Cold Spring. category of the Minnesota Cup competition, Roehrich has visited the country three times and locally disabilities or older environmental site assessment, water also co-advising the bank’s newly formed She and her husband, Michael, live in which seeks ideas that could turn into hosted 15 correction professionals over eight years. than 60 remain quality studies, discharge monitoring and Jr Board. She and her new husband, Marc Sartell ... Erik Monson businesses in the state. Walz and Seil live During the first trip in 2006, the Minnesota team Jamie Heurung in their homes. compliance support in Anchorage, Alaska, Thomsen, live in New Prague ... Tricia has been named the in Shakopee ... Dale Knaffla Jr. recently encountered overcrowded, disorganized prisons run by She lives in Holdingford with her husband, where he lives ... Becky Johnson of Shevlin (Severson) Leanger has joined Ideas that new Nordhoff High completed a wildlife painting project for local police with no probation or rehabilitation options. Justin. They have two toddler-aged children is the assurance of mastery teacher at Kick, a Minneapolis School football coach the Silver Bay Library. A full-time artist, In subsequent years, Uruguay started the first national ... Jessica Strom teaches math at Win-E- Paul Bunyan Elementary School in Bemidji. branding and located in Ojai, Calif. Knaffla has other works also displayed in probation office in South America and centralized all prisons under one command. Mac High School in McIntosh. She and her She and her husband, Dwight, have three marketing firm, as Monson formerly served the region. He lives in Finland ... Lori Clafton husband, Toby, have two young children grown children. a strategic account as an assistant coach is the reading recovery and Title I teacher “This really is a people-to-people environment,” and live in McIntosh... Stephanie Shearen manager. She lives Erik Monson at California Lutheran at Central Elementary School in Bemidji. Roehrich said. “We are able to do good things and help of Hackensack spent the past summer ‘07 Nathan and Amanda (Rezac) Allen in Minnetonka University ... Cyrus Swan recently She previously taught in Grand Rapids ... people improve a system.” coordinating invasive species efforts at welcomed their first baby to their home in with her husband, completed his 100th glaze firing at his Josh Hirschey has been hired as a teacher

Huntersville, N.C., last February. Amanda Tricia Leanger pottery studio in Pine River, where he lives. { continued on next page } The firing includes his handmade dishes,

34 | BEMIDJI STATE UNIVERSITY www.BemidjiState.edu | 35 Class Notes Towns are in Minnesota unless noted. Alumni names appear in bold. Send information to [email protected] ... Liz Boyer is the new Services Department Sanford Clinic school district. A former or call toll free: 1-877-BSU-ALUM. executive director of Beltrami County. in Bagley, elementary and middle of the Macalester- The couple has where they school educator, Caldwell Groveland Community two children ... live ... John had also served as a Council, an organization Jeffery Ostrom Kotaska dean of students and created to facilitate will teach STEM teaches assistant principal on the and the head volleyball coach at Pine River- communication between (science, technology, chemistry, high school level. He lives Backus High School. He lives in Backus with Liz Boyer area residents and Jeff & Darla Ostrom engineering and Mike Lundin physics and Jim Caldwell in Scandia with his wife, his wife, Nicole. elected officials as well as foster citizen math) at Bemidji Middle School. He and biology at Pequot Lakes High School and Kari, and their three children. participation in community decisions. She his wife, Darla, live in was named its head baseball coach last ‘01 Nate Olson of Westby, Mont., is the lives in St. Paul with her Clearbrook ... Chris Hogan spring. He has been with the district three ‘93 Dan Skinner has joined the new superintendent for husband, Craig. They has joined U.S. Bank in years and lives in Pequot Lakes. His wife, Karvakko Engineering firm as the survey Garfield County Schools have two elementary- Duluth as a regional vice Jennifer (’95, Crary), is an ECFE teacher at department manager, where he oversees in Jordan, Mont. In his aged children ... Jerry president in commercial Backus-Pine River schools. The couple’s the daily operations of offices in both

continued from page 35 } previous position in Loud is the director of banking. He lives in Duluth four children range in ages from 5 to 15. Bemidji and Minot, N.D. His wife, Tami (’94), { Westby, he was named the Oshkiimaajitahdah with his wife, Michele ... is the director of the Boys and Girls Club in the Region 4 Assistant Program, which aims to Chris Hogan Brock Suska works for ‘95 Michael Carr was seeking a third Detroit Lakes. They live in Rochert with two Principal of the Year. Jerry Loud increase employment Landscape Structures term as Wadena County sheriff this fall. A school-aged children. Nate Olson He has one son just and family income for the citizens of the in Delano. He recently veteran of 20 years in law enforcement, PIETILA GAVE TEAM ITALY starting college ... Katie (White) Pieper Red Lake Nation. He is also the athletic helped install and film the he lives in Verndale with his teenaged ‘91 Christine Dworzynski recently joined BALANCE AT WORLD CUP operates SandPieper Design, which provides director and women’s basketball coach for Charles Lindbergh-themed child ... Capt. Cary Parks has retired after the health care staff at social media marketing, graphic design and Red Lake Nation College as well as board park in Little Falls. He and serving the Coon Rapids Police Department St. Luke’s Hibbing Family Dr. John Pietila of Richfield admits he isn’t a sports fan and hadn’t watched much soccer. Yet the 1999 BSU website development for clients in the Lake president of Red Lake Incorporated. He his wife, Marin, have two for more than 31 years. He started in Medical Clinic as a nurse graduate spent much of this past summer helping of the Woods County area. Her husband, lives in Puposky ... Deborah Hilde has been young children and live in the department as a patrol officer and practitioner. She and her Team Italy prepare for and compete at soccer’s Chris, is the director of case management named an Administrator of Excellence Brock Suska Delano. advanced in rank, becoming a captain in husband, David, have prestigious World Cup in Brazil. and social work at Lakewood Health Center. by the Minnesota Association of School charge of the detective division in 2005. He one young child and A chiropractor, he did bring a new approach to injury The couple lives in Baudette with their Administrators. Hilde retired after 38 most recently handled the department’s live in Hibbing ... Beth Corby Koehler serves the Minnesota prevention and treatment in the locker room. Pietila’s three young children ... Paul Kirby recently years in public education, most recently as ‘97 daily administrative operations. He lives Christine Dworzynski (Klosner) Hendricks National Guard as a full- system looks for neurological causes of brain-muscle received an superintendent of Eveleth-Gilbert schools. in Coon Rapids with his wife, Sheryl. They performed at the 27th annual summer time staff member and imbalance and corrects any conflicts before an injury American flag She is now an adjunct instructor for St. raised two children, both BSU graduates: recital series of church musicians from the occurs. That differed drastically from a typical was recently reassigned that flew in Mary’s University, advising students in the Brenda (‘09) is a legal assistant at a Golden Bemidji area. Hendricks lives in Bemidji and prevention approach of hitting the weight room hard, as the executive officer Afghanistan. administrative licensure program and for Valley law firm andKate (‘12) is a quality- just began her 19th year of teaching music which often created more problems. to the 2-147 assault The flag was the Minnesota Department of Education assurance engineer for a software company in Red Lake schools. His NeuroTarget system caught the attention of Italy’s helicopter battalion presented to facilitating professional development for in Edina ... Dan Boushee is the assistant soccer brain trust, who wanted him on their sidelines. currently deployed to Kirby, a sixth- teachers in northern Minnesota. She and her K-12 principal in Fosston public schools and Kevin Gish is the administrator Corby Koehler Kuwait with Task Force ‘89 “I gave a presentation on injury prevention in Paul & Michele Kirby grade teacher husband, Kendall, based at Magelssen Elementary. He lives for Essentia Health Shield. The deployment is his third overseas. Denmark, and the doctor of the Florentina squad from at Jacobson Elementary by Sgt. Chelsea raised four children in Fosston with his wife, Angie, and their in Fosston with Italy was intrigued,” Pietila said. An invitation followed He also recently wrote an intelligence Peterson, a former student who watched the from their Virginia four pre-teen children ... Raschell Collyer responsibilities for the to work with Florentina under close scrutiny from the issues paper on support to Army aviation 9/11 terrorism attack unfold in his classroom home ... Brian will teach special education this year at hospital, nursing home, team’s medical staff. The six-month trial period that appeared, in shorter versions, in three 13 years ago. Kirby is married to Michele Michaelson is the the middle school in Bemidji, where she ambulance and home produced remarkable results. publications. The article was selected as (’00, Dinius), who is the office manager at new principal at lives with her husband, Leigh. Her past health services, as well “The head doctor meticulously tracked statistics,” the 2013 Aviation Digest Article of the Year Jeff’s Outdoor Services. The couple has three Mahnomen High work experience came at the Regional as clinics in Fosston, Pietila said of his six-month tryout. “He found the by the Commanding General of the Army children and lives in Pine City. Brian & Jennifer Michaelson School. He brings Interdistrict Council. Kevin Gish Bagley and Oklee. He injury rate dropped from 26 per 1,000 training hours to Aviation Center of Excellence. He lives in 15 years of classroom experience to the and his wife, Mary, have two children and only four. He also found the average hamstring injury Golden Valley with his wife, Angie, and their The Rev. Eric Luedtke recently position, most recently at Cass Lake-Bena, Andy Oman received the still make their home in Bemidji ... Cindy recovery time dropped from 54 days to 14.” ‘99 two young children ... Gregg Parks is the ‘94 accepted the position where he also coached basketball. His wife, Chairman’s Circle Davis works in quality systems for Donor Those outcomes prompted an invitation to apply the new superintendent of Nevis schools after of associate pastor Jennifer (’98, Pehling), is in her 16th year of Award from State Networks of Arizona, the system during Italy’s World Cup run, which ended with serving for 17 years as an assistant principal at St. John’s Lutheran teaching at the elementary school in Park Farm Insurance for organ, tissue and eye a 1-2 record in the elimination round. and teacher at Bemidji Middle School. He Church in Brookfield, Rapids, where the couple lives with their his customer service transplant organization Pietila brings the NeuroTarget approach when seeing and his wife, Roxanne, have three college- Wis., where he will work four children. and marketing ability. for the state. She lives patients at his Burnsville clinic, where he treats all aged children and live in Walker. with the congregation’s Oman has been a third- in El Mirage, Ariz. … Des types of conditions. “A sports injury is no different than

children, youth, outreach Becky Rud has been hired to generation State Farm Toninato, the first female hurting your back shoveling snow,” he said. ‘98 Mike Lundin directed a reunion Eric Luedtke and care ministries. He teach seventh-grade math at Bemidji ‘96 Andy Oman agent in Crookston officer in the Coon Rapids choir for the Bagley All-School reunion this lives in Wauwatosa, Wis., with his wife, Middle School. Her most recent classroom since 2008. He and his wife, Lynnea, are Cindy Davis Police Department, summer. A former professional opera singer, Stephanie. They have three young children experience was in the Bagley school system. raising their three children in Crookston has retired after 22 years on the force, Lundin is a corrections officer in Clearwater She lives in Bemidji with her husband, Brent ... Jim Caldwell is the new principal at County. Anna, his wife, is a receptionist for (’00), who works in the Environmental Linwood Elementary in the Forest Lake { continued on next page }

36 | BEMIDJI STATE UNIVERSITY www.BemidjiState.edu | 37 Class Notes Towns are in Minnesota unless noted. Alumni names appear in bold. Send information to [email protected] Diane Lapp of Coon Rapids was Athletic Hall of Fame. Wirtanen retired a 50-meet winning streak and won two BSU, where he was an All-America selection or call toll free: 1-877-BSU-ALUM. ‘87 named chief financial officer for the 10 years ago as the athletic director and state titles. The girls’ unit won 65 percent of three times. An assistant principal at Elk U.S. market of Nilfisk-Advance. Based longtime coach of different sports at the its matches, at one point putting together River High, he also coached wrestling for 10 in Denmark, the company is one of college, and the school’s gymnasium was a 55-meet winning streak that spanned seasons, earning four conference and three the world’s leading renamed in his honor. He is a member of five years. He garnered multiple coach of section Coach of the Year awards. He and his manufacturers of the Bemidji State, NJCAA Wrestling Coaches the year awards on the section and state wife, Melissa, live in Elk River and have three including the past 16 as community professional cleaning and Minnesota Community College Athletic level. Mark’s wife, Cindy (Burggraff), is an children ranging from pre-teen to college aged. policing officer. She lives in Minneapolis equipment with sales Association halls of fame. He and his wife, elementary teacher in Alexandria and most but plans on relocating within a year to the in 44 countries and Joan, raised three adult children from their recently has served as a K-8 math coach ‘80 Stephen J. Pitzen has published state of Washington ... distributors in 70 home in Hibbing ... Erick Enger is the new and math intervention specialist. They have four books online at countries. Her office is Rick Kangas received superintendent of Lake City schools. He two grown children and live in Alexandria ... smashwords.com: “Losing Susan Hawkinson a Distinguished located in Plymouth. previously served as principal at Zumbrota- Janey Merschman is retiring from teaching Henry,” a story about

Educational Professional Mazeppa for 14 years. He lives in Zumbrota math and English in the a young man enlisting Susan Hawkinson presented a Award from North ‘86 with his wife, Teresa, and their teenaged Bagley school system. in the Navy during the

continued from page 37 } reading from her book “Tina Christina Dakota State University child. They plan on eventually relocating to At some time during her closing years of the { Sistina” at an AAUW program in Grand for his advocacy for the Lake City district. tenure in the district, she Vietnam War; “Acorn DORN CONCLUDES CAREER Rapids. The book, nominated for a Rick Kangas students’ access to advised the yearbook, Stephen Pitzen Island,” a realistic nature AS WOMEN’S AD AT NDSU Minnesota Book Award in young people’s higher education. Kangas is the dean of Kelly McCalla is serving as the junior high drama club, of survival as seen through the eyes of a literature, tells a story through a series of ‘85 student and administrative services at academic dean of the student council and squirrel; “Manifest Gluttony,” a fictionalized As she prepares to conclude a 37-year career as 16 sistinas, a classical poetic form. A retired women’s athletic director at North Dakota State Itasca Community College in Grand Rapids, arts, humanities and Janey Merschman Knowledge Bowl. She world where consumption equates with writing instructor at Itasca Community University, Lynn Dorn remembers well the lessons she and his experience in higher education social sciences division and her husband, Jim, live in Bagley and success; and “Flowers of Autumn,” the College, Hawkinson presents programs learned as a student and athlete at Bemidji State. spans 19 years at five colleges. He has at Riverland Community have three adult children ... Andra (Hinkle) tale of a developmentally disabled adult’s at schools, libraries, book clubs and other Recalling an era when women were first playing on one child with his wife, College, which has three Vaughn will serve this year as the dean of struggle for acceptance. Pitzen completed organizations when she is not writing new the collegiate level, she said, “We were so grateful to Jeanine (’12). They campuses in southeastern students and activities director at Bemidji the works following his retirement as a material. She lives in Grand Rapids ... Terri compete; we took every opportunity.” reside in Baxter ... Lt. Col. Minnesota. McCalla Middle School. From Bemidji, she previously Cass County social worker. His wife, Mary Anderson-Schlader was named the Middle Chad Sackett is an active Kelly McCalla arrived at Riverland taught in Blackduck. (’79, Benedict), retired last May as a special Dorn, who wore the green and white for volleyball, field hockey, basketball and golf before graduating in guard and reserve officer after working in administration at several education teacher in area schools ... Bruce 1972, announced in August that she will retire from assigned as the deputy state community and technical colleges, Loren Jansen has retired after serving Jarvi retired last spring after 34 years of ‘81 NDSU in March. post commander of the and was presented the Administrator of the 32 years on the police force in St. Peter, teaching in the Sauk Centre school district. Since 1977, she has passed those lessons to others in her Chad Sackett Camp Ripley Training Year Award in 2012 by the Minnesota State where he lives. Jansen was a sergeant and During his tenure he taught various levels leadership role at NDSU. The Bison have learned well. Center. He is also a 2014-15 policy fellow at Colleges and Universities system. His wife, supervised the department. He now works of English and also served a short stint During her tenure, NDSU women earned seven national the Humphrey School of Public Affairs. He Celeste (’87, Novak), is a former corrections in campus security at Minnesota State as an administrator. Jarvi has coached titles, 98 conference or league championships, and nine officer who is a stay-at-home mom in University in Mankato ... lives in the Little Falls area with his wife, The Rev. Mike the girls’ tennis and boys’ golf teams. His conference all-sports trophies. Since 1981, 138 athletes Jackee, and their three children. Deerwood with the couple’s two children. The Herschberger, pastor of Our Savior Lutheran retirement plans include some substitute won All-America status, while 35 were selected for 54 family will join him later in Austin ... Susan Church in Marshalltown, Iowa, celebrated teaching in the area. His wife, Julie (Tonder), CoSIDA Academic All-America awards and 18 earned Lisa Wigand was recently Freeman brings eight years of classroom the 25th anniversary of his ordination last is a teacher aide in the district and served NCAA postgraduate scholarships. ‘88 Terry Anderson-Schlader promoted by Bremer experience in the Walker-Hackensack-Akeley summer. Prior to his current position, he 12 years as a church An award-winning athletic administrator once listed School Teacher of the Year in Huron, S.D., Bank to community system to her new teaching position in math served congregations at churches in Iowa secretary. Residents of among the five most influential people in NCAA Division last spring. She teaches special education business manager at Bemidji Middle School. and Minnesota. He and his wife, Rhonda Sauk Centre, they have II athletics, Dorn has seen a lot of change since 1977. in Brainerd, Aitkin in the social learning classroom at Huron (’82, Jakel), live in Ellsworth, Iowa, and three adult children Now entering their second decade of competition on and surrounding Middle School. She lives in Huron with her ‘84 Charles P. Olson is a retired licensed have two adult children ... Pamela Hanson- ... Ellen Adams was the NCAA Division I level, NDSU women have better communities. She and husband, Dan Schlader, and their two sons police officer, criminal investigator and Peterson appeared as a guest soprano last named a Western Bank training facilities, more coaching, significant scholarship her husband, David Ten ... John Bolduc was named the acting chief private investigator. Olson also worked for spring at the Audiorio Nacional de Musica Educator of the Month support and increased national exposure. Lisa Wigand Eyck, live in Brainerd ... executive officer of the Port of San Diego, 10 years at Polaris Industries. He has two with the La Lira band in Madrid, Spain. She Ellen Adams last year. The award is Dorn still sees the values of 1972 as important today. Dick Larson has retired from teaching math an organization in California with more than children and lives in Roseau. is an adjunct professor at Daytona (Florida) presented to a teacher in the Cass Lake area “It’s great for athletes to have the opportunities they and science at Pine River-Backus School. 500 employees and an annual budget of State College and performs in Florida with who has positively influenced students. have today,” she said. “But the fundamental beliefs like He plans on keeping in $145 million. He had been serving the past Mark Storhaug has retired from two early music ensembles, the Halifax Adams teaches kindergarten at Bug-O- teamwork, trust, camaraderie and integrity are ‘82 intangible, lifetime gifts.” touch with the classroom four years as the chief teaching and coaching Consortium and Ars Antiqua. She lives in Nay-Ge-Shig School, where she started in as a substitute teacher, of the Harbor Police after 30 years in Port Orange, Fla., with her husband, Doug. 1980 with a classroom of first-, second- and They are lessons well learned, and well given. although working with Department and as Alexandria. A science They have one college- third-graders. She lives his three sons’ business police chief for Brainerd teacher, Storhaug gained aged child ... Ken Jordan in Cass Lake ... Steve ventures is also a and Mora prior to his national recognition for was inducted into the Elk Cairns, superintendent possibility. He lives in move to California. He coaching, swimming and River High School Sports of Bagley schools, was Dick Larson Pine River. and his wife, Dawn, live diving. His combined Hall of Fame. Jordan was named Administrator John Bolduc in San Diego and have Mark Storhaug boys and girls record a state tourney wrestler of the Year for District

adult children ... Bill Wirtanen has been was 434 wins against 195 losses. The boys’ in high school and a { continued on next page } inducted into the Mesabi Range College squad had a 74 percent win ratio, once had Ken Jordan national place winner at Steve Cairns

38 | BEMIDJI STATE UNIVERSITY www.BemidjiState.edu | 39 Class Notes Towns are in Minnesota unless noted. Alumni names appear in bold. Send information to [email protected] five children, ranging in age from 20 to 30 ... teacher in the Roseau school district, where $30,000 in tickets Becki, raised two children from their home professor of business law, or call toll free: 1-877-BSU-ALUM. Tim Cochran of Alexandria has retired from he also coached elementary football, varsity had already been in Inver Grove Heights. formerly served as the teaching language arts in the West Central boys’ hockey and varsity girls’ golf. He lives sold for the boat, Lied Professor of Legal Area school district, where he also coached in Roseau with his wife, Kathy. The couple which is popular ‘72 Richard Carl Bright published the Studies in the accounting Mock Trial, Knowledge Bowl and a variety has two adult children. for tracking redfish historical book “Pain and Purpose in the department at the of sports over his career. A guitarist, he has on the saltwater Pacific: True Reports of War.” Bright, who University of Nevada, 29, a Minnesota Association of School appeared locally both individually and in ‘77 Shari Meyer was named the flats of the Texas lived for seven years on the island of Saipan, Las Vegas. He and his Leland Hayes Administrators area that includes 14 school several ensembles. Cochran also recorded Elementary Band Director of the Year for coast. Both he and uses the work to put a human face on World Dr. Robert Aalberts wife, Barbara, have systems. He and his wife, Penni, raised a CD, “Muses,” in his own small recording District VI in Louisiana, which enabled her his wife are retired educators who live in War II and chronicles both the destructive relocated to University Park, Pa. three adult children from their home in studio. He has two children with his wife, to conduct the Elementary Honor Band last Bemidji. They have three adult children ... as well as redemptive sides of war. A retired Bagley. Sheree ... Mary (Mack) Johnson has retired winter. She has taught music for the past 16 Mike Silk has retired from teaching and commercial pilot, he also wrote “The Ark: ‘71 Jim Bell is owner of B’s Liquor in from teaching in the Lake of the Woods years in New Orleans, where she resides. coaching softball at Randolph High School. A Reality?” and “Quest for Discover.” Rockville. He is a former educator who ‘79 Rick Nelson teaches sports schools, where she taught first grade for 30 Her current position encompasses fourth- to A geography, history and civics educator, he He lives in Dunedin, Fla. … Dr. Robert retired after working in the human relations management and health years. Johnson and her husband, John, live in 12th-grade band at Ridgewood Preparatory was the only softball coach the school has Aalberts is a new faculty member at the departments of several manufacturing

continued from page 39 } education classes at Baudette but hope to eventually relocate to School ... Kathy (Bliss) Thompson has retired had, amassing 416 career wins since starting Penn State Smeal College of Business. firms. He lives in Cold Spring with his wife, { Century College in White the Park Rapids area where she was raised from teaching elementary school in Nevis for the program 35 years ago. He and his wife, Aalberts, who is the school’s clinical Kathy. They have two adult children ... Elaine Bear Lake. A veteran of ... Connie (Berberich) Bishop retired after 37 years, during which she was the district’s (Aune) Ruud retired after 43 years teaching 30 years in the MnSCU teaching nearly 35 years in Red Lake County first Teacher of the Year, a recipient of both a elementary education classes at Tri-County system, he also does Central elementary schools. Bishop and Minnesota Teacher of Excellence and Ashland schools in Karlstad. A governmental relations her husband, Charles, live in Plummer. The Golden Apple Achiever awards, and one of member of the BSU Rick Nelson work for Minnesota’s couple has an adult son, and Bishop has five four national winners of the annual Robert Professional Education state college faculty. His wife, Kaari, is stepchildren. G. Porter Scholars Award. She lives on a farm Hall of Fame, she was a the administrative assistant to the vice near Park Rapids with her husband, John. Christa McAuliffe Fellow president of continuing education and ‘78 Elwyn Ruud retired last spring after They have two adult children, including son and served as president customized training at Century. They live in teaching third grade in Randy (’07), who now teaches in Menahga of the Minnesota White Bear Lake ... Steve Adkins of Roseau Roseau for 35 years, 20 ... Kathy (McMartin) Morrow is head librarian Elaine Ruud Kindergarten Association has retired after teaching of which she also spent at the Mille Lacs Area Community Library in for many years. Her husband, Wayne, retired math to sixth-graders coordinating the Artist-in- Isle. A retired English teacher with two older several years ago as the city administrator for 35 years. During his Residence Program. She children, she has worked since 2012 at the and clerk of Karlstad, where they raised career, he also taught was inducted into the BSU library. Her husband, Jim Johnson, also is a three grown children. business courses for Professional Education retired teacher. They live in Onamia. Northland Community Elwyn Ruud Hall of Fame in 2000. ‘70 Terry Mejdrich of Swatara presented and Technical College. He Ruud and her husband, Ron, live in Karlstad ‘76 Terry Schoenborn has retired from a program on the collapse of the bee Steve Adkins lives in Roseau and has and have two grown children ... Pamela serving elementary students in Mahnomen population at Fifty Lakes Foundation in Fifty two grown children ... Paul Freude received Fladeland Rodriguez, president and CEO of for 37 years, the first five as a librarian and Lakes. During the program, he explained the Manager Lifetime Achievement Award the Chicago-based Treatment Alternatives the remaining as a teacher. She lives in why the loss of honey bees could have from the National for Safe Communities (TASC), has been Mahnomen with her husband, Darvin, who negative outcomes and how the public can Telephone Cooperative honored by the White House drug policy owns and runs the NAPA store in the city. CRESAP’S TRUMPET CAREER help reverse the trend. Mejdrich is a science Association-Rural office and spotlighted in a 2014 national The couple has three grown children. SOARS SINCE GRADUATION columnist for the Grand Rapids Herald drug control strategy. She and TASC founder Review and has been a teacher, lumberjack, Broadband Association. Andy Cresap hasn’t missed a beat, from the day he stepped onto the Bemidji State Now retired, Freude Melody Heaps were named as Advocates ‘75 Kaye Munt is retiring from teaching campus as an aspiring musician through graduation in 2010; from acceptance into the sawmill operator and writer, with five worked at Paul Bunyan in Action for leadership in advancing justice first and second grades for more than 38 prestigious University of North Texas graduate program to earning a chair with an published books. Communications in interventions for people with substance- years at Red Lake County Central Elementary award-winning group; or working his trumpet in a classical ensemble to playing in the Paul Freude Bemidji for 27 years, the abuse disorders. Rodriguez lives in Elk Grove in Plummer. She and her husband, Tim, raised horn section for two sellout shows headlined by Aretha Franklin. ‘69 Terry Fredin has retired as a last 20 as CEO and general manager. He Village, Ill., and has two grown sons ... Rick two children while living in Oklee. After arriving at UNT, Cresap became part of the 1 O’Clock Lab Band, which earned member of the Windom Park and Recreation continues to live in Bemidji with his wife, Van Roekel has retired from teaching after Downbeat Magazine Awards last year as the best large jazz ensemble and best college Commission, a position he served for 20 Pearl (’88). The couple raised two adult 36 years, including 32 in New Ulm schools. ‘73 Leland Hayes donated a shallow Latin music group. years. His background includes 25 years children and spends their winters in Cape Van Roekel primarily taught woodworking water flats boat he built to benefit the Port In September, he backed Franklin as she delighted Texas crowds at Austin City Limits in of teaching industrial technology and Coral, Fla. … Pete Maus recently completed and construction classes, which included Aransas (Texas) Museum in the community Austin and the Winspear Opera House in Dallas. “It was an amazing experience to work vocational construction, as well as founding his 30th year as a head high school baseball building nine houses. He also spent 20 where he and his wife, Rachelle, spend the with an artist of her caliber,” Cresap said. “Even at 73, she put on an unbelievable show.” a construction and cabinet building company. years as the head football coach, where he winter months. A cancer survivor, Hayes He and his wife, Karen (’68, Schneider), coach, 29 of those in Northfield. Maus He started looking for more stage appearances this fall by taking a hiatus from school teaches math in the district’s middle school built the team into a state contender. Other spent over 780 hours on the 16-foot boat, and exploring the job market in Las Vegas. He plans to perform with different shows and formerly owned and operated an appliance and also coaches seventh-grade football. coaching assignments included roles in which is composed of more than 900 parts, eventually catch on somewhere permanently. and hardware store in Windom and own the district’s basketball, track and baseball two layers of fiberglass and covered with 19 seven rental units in the area. Karen also Inducted into the BSU Athletic Hall of Fame “I have always focused on being a well-rounded player,” Cresap said when explaining programs. He and his wife, Kathy, raised two coats of paint and epoxy. The boat will be works in the human relations department in 2011, he continues to manage amateur how the beat will continue. “When I left UNT, I was playing mostly jazz, pop and and VFW teams in Northfield, where he adult children from their home in New Ulm ... raffled off to benefit a local museum, and commercial. My career goal is to perform mainly commercial and jazz music as a lead { continued on next page } lives with his wife, Lynda. The couple has Gary Ross retired as a longtime fourth-grade by the first week of September more than trumpet player.”

40 | BEMIDJI STATE UNIVERSITY www.BemidjiState.edu | 41 Class Notes IN MEMORIAM Towns are in Minnesota unless noted. Listed in order of class year Alumni names appear in bold. Send Joe Lueken (Honorary Alumni ’04) Floraine Nielsen (former music faculty) information to [email protected] later. He and his wife, Elna, have a blended or call toll free: 1-877-BSU-ALUM. Dr. Victor D. Weber (former coach, 2013-14 family including six grown children ... Athletic Director, faculty) REPORT Gene Anderson stays busy in retirement Audrey (Sauve) Johnston ’38, Detroit Lakes BSU FOUNDATION by entertaining audiences around the Lillian V. Grandell ’39, Hermantown LeRoy E. Maas ’40, Albert Lea o world. A chemist who retired from Dow Helen B. (Cronemiller) Nelson ’40, Bemidji Chemical after 32 years, he has used humor, Phyllis J. (McLeod) Numedahl ’40, Minneapolis of Habilitative Services. The couple lives in magic and learning in performances at Donald J. Schmeckpeper ’40, Bemidji GIFTSf Windom and has two children, both BSU training seminars, speaking engagements, Jean E. ( Johnson) Hobson ’43, Stillwater graduates. Kris (’92, Fredin) Vipond is the and special events in 21 countries on six Frances E. (Nielson) Bjorklund ’44, Duluth Marjorie J. (Taylor) Smith ’45, Rushford city clerk in Sibley, Iowa, and Bill (‘96) is a continents. When not traveling, he lives in Harold Melby ’46, Hopkins Midland, Mich. co-owner of Fredin Construction/Cabinetry Murray L. Warren ’48, Cambridge ... Carrol Peterson still works part time as a Wallace Haglund ’50 & ’72, International Falls security officer after a full-time career that ‘62 Tom Adamson has returned to a Esther L. (Stefan) Jacobson ’51, Naperville, Ill. spanned 20 years. He is also a busy author, home in Big Fork after teaching more than Arleen (Nace) Sycks ’51, Brainerd A GREAT MANY DOING Jeanette C. (Peterson) Lindgren ’52, continued from page 41 } whose work includes the published novels 50 years. He started at Bovey Junior High { Margaret (Campbell) Snyder ’52, St. Michael GREAT THINGS FOR BSU and eventually moved to Itasca Community “Summer Mirage,” “Sugarloaf Hill” and “The Dionne D. (Soderberg) Moen ’54, Bemidji Pumpkin Center Outfit,” as well as five College, Central Arizona College and Janet (Goulet) Wilson ’58, Richland Center, Wis. Visionary Steve Jobs once said, “The only way to be truly screenplays. When not traveling, he and his Phoenix College. His wife, Carol (Trevena), Amy O. Ihle ’60, Bemidji satisfied is to do what you believe is great work.” In the past wife, Maria Isadora, reside in Coon Rapids. retired in 1991 from a teaching career that Herbert L. Latvala ’60 & ’67, Nashwauk year, donors, alumni, board members, faculty, community also spanned several schools in Minnesota Myrna M. (Swenson) Lauderbaugh ’61, Centerville Thomas L. Wrolstad, ’61, Bemidji members and staff have contributed great individual efforts and John Skalko is a beekeeper who and Arizona. The couple has three adult ‘68 Ione M. Ptacek ’62, Babbitt Jeff Kemink gifts to benefit students and ensure BSU’s future. children. specializes in making candles and other Thelma McNelly ’63, Bemidji beeswax products. He is a retired teacher Kathryn L. Manlove ’63, Park Rapids The public launch of the Imagine Tomorrow Campaign at the 2013 Honors Gala resulted from the Proctor school district, where he ‘61 Mark Paulson was named as Curtis Frohrip ’66, Moose Lake in a humbling response. If we learned one thing, it’s that people are passionately became involved with bees as manager of a Melvin Jones Fellow by the Lions Donald A. Norum ’66, Bemidji committed to supporting BSU. We just needed to ask. Margaret “Peggy” A. (Marvin) Johnson ’67, Warroad the school forest. He lives in Esko. International Foundation for his financial Robert W. Sadek ’67 & ’68, Lakeville contribution to the charitable organization. Countless hours of research, planning, debate, execution and questions moved us from William G. Smith ’67, Grand Rapids the $12.6 million in assets the foundation held just five years ago to more than $31 ‘64 Willis Mattison, a retired regional Paulson is retired after serving Bemidji Frances M. Lahti ’68, Hoyt Lakes director for the Minnesota Pollution Control State University in a variety of capacities, Robert Poore ’68, Nevis million today. including directing BSU’s alumni efforts. His Judy A. (Butterfield) Carpenter ’69, Grand Rapids Agency (MPCA), remains Much of that progress is due to the leadership and vision of friends like Joe Lueken and active assisting citizen wife, Lanee (’88, Stevens), retired as an Margaret A. (Marvin) Johnson ’69, Warroad John R. Mitchell ’69, Chaska alumn Peggy Johnson, whom we lost this summer. We mourn their passing, celebrate groups interested in account clerk at BSU. The couple lives near Beatrice A. Steinhart ’69, Grand Rapids Solway and has one adult child, Bradley their legacies and strive to carry on their shining examples. protecting Minnesota’s Linda S. (Anick) Harapat ’70, Bigfork, Mont. natural resources (’00). Mark also has an adult son, Brian, Benjamin Weeks ’70, Faribault Their generosity and that of donors like them already is benefiting students. Since and environment. He living in North Carolina. Olga (Boardson) Engevik ’71, Thief Rivers Falls beginning the quiet phase of the campaign in July 2011, scholarship dollars awarded Richard A. Howe ’71, Maple Grove recently began helping Photographs for Class Notes were have grown from $772,664 to more than $1 million. That translates to 711 scholarships Bevin R. Leipert ’71, Moose Jaw, Sask. Willis Mattison the Friends of the provided by individual alumni and by the Judith M. (Baltes) Ross ’71, Blackduck used to fulfill 4,310 credit hours. Headwaters as a technical advisor on a following media: Bemidji Pioneer, Cass Theodore W. Thorson Jr. ’72, Bemidji Nevertheless, we’re not done, and we are not content to simply hope we attain proposed pipeline across the region. Prior Lake Times, East Grand Forks Exponent Leslie R. Qual ’73, Punta Gorda, Fla. to retirement in 2001, he directed the MPCA and St. Cloud Times. Josephine Teggatz ’73, New Ulm our goal. Charles R. Tuggle ’73, Charleston, Ill. offices in Rochester and Detroit Lakes. He The foundation and alumni boards have developed a strategic plan for both organiza- lives in Osage and has three grown children. Alice M. (Hanson) Hoaglin ’75, Babbitt Eugene W. Torgerson ’76, Leonard tions: connect, educate, communicate and engage are watchwords that will help shape

Douglas A. Aldrich ’78, Hamilton, Va. events, outreach, volunteer opportunities and other efforts. ‘63 Bill Bateman was recently hired as Rebecca J. (Moffett) Martinson ’79, Staples an investment representative by Laraway Corene E. Olson ’80, River Falls, Wis. As I reflect on my time on the foundation board and as its president, I have to smile. Financial in St. Cloud. Valerie A. (Charles) Vorderbruggen ’81, Bemidji While we may never be truly satisfied, we know many people are making great efforts Bateman is a veteran Suzanne E. “Kelly Stone” Holland ’83, Bemidji to move BSU toward the tomorrow we imagine. John A. Simonis ’83, Bemidji financial advisor, starting Rick A. Kettler ’84, Eden Prairie in 1967 and building Kathryn Olson ’84, Thief River Falls his career to form the Sandra L.F. (Floura) Freer ’86, Prior Lake Jeff Kemink firm Bateman, Dolan William H. Roy ’87, Grand Rapids Immediate Past President and Westlund a decade Anthony D. Aho ’91, Stanchfield Bill Bateman Lisa M. (Grade) Sowell ’95, Conroe, Texas Bemidji State University Foundation David A. Clark ’97, Canton, N.Y. Roger R. Peterson ’00, Thief River Falls Benjamin C. Beaudoin ’01, St. Paul Brian J. Herbranson ’07, McGregor Kasandra C. Solverson ’07, Chaska

42 | BEMIDJI STATE UNIVERSITY www.BemidjiState.edu | 43 She taught in Mora and then International In TributeBy Cindy Serratore Falls, where she started the girls track and field program and coached the team to a 1972 The passing in July of both Joe Lueken and Peggy (Marvin) Johnson left state co-championship. their friends and communities filled with sorrow and deep gratitude for Years later, when asked to serve on the their leadership, generosity and commitment. Both were dear and supportive board of the BSU Alumni Association, Johnson didn’t hesitate. friends of Bemidji State University, hard-working visionaries in their She served eight years, and together with communities and examples to all through the lives they lived. Sam endowed scholarships in biology, physical education and music. Her son, Jeff, noted that his mom wasn’t “on committees – she ran them, because if there was a project, she was going to get it done.” Johnson received the Jaycee Key Woman Award and once served as state vice presi- dent. She was a scout leader, golf coach and The couple moved to always took the lead on the annual high school Bemidji four years PEGGY reunion, summer theater and so much more. later to manage a down- After the floods of 2002, she helped establish town grocery store, which 1945-2014 the Warroad Area Community Fund. Lueken subsequently pur- “She loved Warroad!” said her daughter, Paula chased from his brother. Heppner. “She supported the people there From the beginning, busi- JOHNSON with her life. No person, no project was ever ness was a family affair. FOR THE LOVE GIVING too small or too big for Mom.” Joe, Jan and their four sons Along with her mother, Peggy planned the – Michael, Jeffrey, Joseph o Warroad library and years later built the Jr. and David – all played Joe joined the BSU Foundation in 1973 and For Peggy “Marvin”f Johnson, it was William S. Marvin Training Center. She visited a role. later served on its board of directors. never enough to greet you at the door. museums all over the country to make sure “Some of my earliest He was an original full-tuition scholarship “She would take you over the threshold and Warroad had the best. memories were of going to donor, a gift that came full circle later in life into her life,” said her elder brother, Frank But what endeared her to so many was the work with my dad on Sun- when he needed a procedure for Parkinson’s. Marvin, who calls her “the good Marvin.” way she welcomed people into her life. 1941-2014 day evenings to change As it turned out, his Mayo Clinic surgeon was His once freckle-faced little sister never out- When Asian refugees arrived in Warroad, she prices,” Jeff Lueken said. a BSU alum and recipient of one of the first grew her spunk. taught them English, bringing them into her “When we were done, we Lueken scholarships. JOE LUEKEN got pizza at Dave’s and If something needed doing in her family, her home, learning their culture and recipes. In 2003, Joe was added to the BSU Found- went home to watch ‘Mis- church, her hometown, her alma mater or In her sophomore year at Bemidji State, she ers’ Walk for his role in the development and A LIFE SUCCESS AND SERVICE sion Impossible’ and ‘FBI.’” her beloved vacation community in Kaua’i – met Irene Kano, a Japanese student from growth of the university. Johnson was there. o In his iconic green apron, Hawaii, and invited her home for the holidays. More recently, he initiated BSU’s Community Lueken worked side by “She had time to do something special for “That was just Peggy. She attracted people to Appreciation Day and last year’s inaugu- f Joe Lueken invested side with his employees in Bemidji and everyone and closed the door to no one,” said her,” said Irene, who in turn introduced Peggy “He wasn’t going to ask anyone to do something ral Green and White Event, which raised a lifetime into his Wahpeton, N.D. her sister, Susan Marvin. to Hawaii. $100,000 for student-athletes. grocery business and “He wasn’t going to ask anyone to do some- Johnson remained deeply committed to north- “She loved her life,” said her best friend, that he wouldn’t do himself. You’d see Joe in could have sold it for a In another landmark gift, he and Jan launched thing that he wouldn’t do himself,” said Barry ern Minnesota, especially to Warroad, where Teresa Larson. “You’d call her up for a camp- fortune. an anti-bullying campaign in the Bemidji Bower, Wahpeton store manager. “You’d see she grew up and where her family continues fire – or to do anything – and she’d say, ‘We’ll the back crushing cardboard boxes and you’d schools. Instead, he turned his Joe in the back crushing cardboard boxes to manage Marvin Windows, a company be right there.’” three stores over to and you’d think, ‘That’s the owner of the Once asked if he would do anything different, founded by her grandfather. think, ‘That’s the owner of the company.’” Johnson loved her family, the outdoors, walleye his employees, making company.’” Joe said, “No, except marry Jan sooner.’” She was also committed to Bemidji State fishing, hiking, swimming, shish kabobs and red – BARRY BOWER, them all owners. Lueken loved the grocery business. As Lueken’s top executive, Sicard said, “You University, where she was a cheerleader, met toenail polish. And she did the best cannon- WAHPETON, N.D., STORE MANAGER her husband, Sam, made lifelong friends and “The grocery business He was a master of merchandising and knew don’t replace Joe, but hopefully all of us have balls into the pool. Just ask her grandkids. is who Joe was,” taken in enough of Joe to keep things going graduated in 1967 with a degree in physical his inventory like the back of his hand. He’d Not even multiple myeloma could stop her and do it well.” education. said Tom Welle, president of First National often show up by 3 a.m. to stock shelves. from relishing every moment. Bank in Bemidji, one of his early lenders. Every day before opening, he’d walk the aisles With boyish delight, Lueken would say: “Give “She was always looking out for her family, “It was his life and his passion, and he did with the eye of a drill sergeant. until it feels good.” And he did. “She loved Warroad! everything he could to see it successful and especially after her diagnosis,” said Paul Koski, He earned everyone’s respect – from his “He was just a great man,” said Dean Crotty, leave it that way.” a BSU alum and friend. “She said, ‘I’m not going customers to his suppliers. president of North Country Business Products She supported the people there to miss one birthday party.’ And she didn’t. By the time Lueken was 7, he worked in his “Most people give lip service to humility,” said where Joe was a board member. “The respect father’s bakeries in Springfield and Mitchell, “She outdid us all. And left us with some very Brent Sicard, Lueken’s president and CEO. “Joe he earned is in how he handled himself. He with her life. No person, no S.D. He graduated from high school in 1959, special memories.” lived it. He was always sincere. He never did gave not ever asking to receive.” met his future wife, Jan, at a dance and things for show.” project was ever too small or married her in 1962. While Joe and Jan gave generously throughout the community, they remained particularly too big for Mom.” vested in the success of the university. – PAULA HEPPNER (DAUGHTER)

44 | BEMIDJI STATE UNIVERSITY www.BemidjiState.edu | 45 REPORT Lake Region Bone & Joint Surgeons Dickson Enterprises, Inc. o Lakeland Public Television Gregory Droba President’s SOCIETY Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe Steve & Susan Engel Margaret Listberger Estate The President’s Society recognizes the university’s most generous James & Tiffany Fankhanel/Bemidji Chrysler Center/Honda GIFTSf LeRoy E. Maas* of Bemidji contributors. Members include individuals, families and Marvin Lumber & Cedar Co Dr. Jeremy Fogelson & Megan Fogelson-Dahlby organizations. The President’s Society is based on lifetime/cumulative Jon & Debra McTaggart Fred & Virginia Forseman Growth of giving to the Bemidji State University Foundation. MeritCare Clinic Bemidji Dr. Jeanine & Ronald Gangeness Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe George & Joann Gardner Endowed Christine Janda* Miller McDonald, Inc. Dale Greenwalt & Kim Warren Visionary’s Society - ($2,500,000.00+) Cedsel J. Hagen* Funds Margaret H. Johnson* R. Alexander Milowski Joseph* & Janice Lueken/The Joseph and Janice Paul & Paige Hanson Katharine Neilson Cram Foundation Dr. Thomas & Mary Moberg Lueken Family Foundation Hartz Foundation $22,000,000 Kopp Family Foundation Harry Moore* Ronald & Alvina Morrison Gary & Diane Hazelton Trustee’s Society - ($1,000,000.00+) Kraus-Anderson Construction Company - John R. Heneman $20,000,000 North Division Nash Finch Company The George W. Neilson Foundation Charles Naylor* Barbara Higgins* Leech Lake Casinos: Northern Lights, Palace, Michael and Tracy Roberge Hill’s Plumbing & Heating $18,000,000 and White Oak William* & Dona Mae Naylor Nei Bottling, Inc. Terry & Cindy Holter Lueken’s Village Foods $16,000,000 Chancellor’s Society - ($500,000.00+) NLFX Professional Dr. Howard & Mary Hoody John W. Marvin 3M, Inc. Norbord Minnesota InHarvest Michael McKinley & Deborah Grabrian/ $14,000,000 $20,320,670 Keith & Maria Johanneson/Marketplace Northwest Minnesota Foundation John Johanneson* Food & Drug McKinley Companies Paul Bunyan Broadcasting Arnold* & Nancy* Johnson Edwin* & Myra* Johnson Mark & Sandra Niblick $12,000,000 Dr. Harold T. Peters* Virginia Hope Johnson* Sam & Peggy* Johnson North Country Business Products Phillips Plastics Corp. Wilbur Johnson Estate David and Brenda Odegaard North Country Health Services $10,000,000 $8,860,204 The Pioneer/Advertiser Lillie M. Kleven* Paul Bunyan Communications $8,225,156 Northern Inn/Gary Gangelhoff Drs. Jon & Patricia Quistgaard Gary Knutson* Wayne & Beverly Thorson $8,000,000 Otter Tail Power Company Red Lake Band of Chippewa Indians League of Women Voters - Bemidji Area

Otto Bremer Foundation Lee C. Scotland, DDS $5,905,775 Steven & Robyn Seide $6,000,000 Benefactor’s Society - (250,000.00+) Robert & Mary Lou Peters Jack & Marie St. Martin/The Jack & Marie Douglas & Renee Leif Dr. M. James & Nancy Bensen Pinnacle Publishing LLC St. Martin Family Foundation/KFC Drs. Gordon & Alice Lindgren $4,000,000 Doug & Sue Fredrickson/Big Oaks Foundation David & Kim Ramsey Tom & Cindy Serratore James* & Janet* Love M. Fern Birnstihl* Lowell & Lois Sorenson Lutheran Community Foundation Custom chargers (as pictured above) are Dr. Patrick Riley & Dr. Natalie Roholt $2,000,000 First National Bank Bemidji Marcella Sherman State Farm Companies Foundation William & Jodi Maki created especially for the President’s Society Elfrida B. Glas* TruStar Federal Credit Union The Idea Circle, Inc. Jeff “Bird” McBride Tournament 0 by visual arts professor and department chair Kirk P. Gregg/Gregg Family Charitable Fund Robert & Jeanette Welle Dr. Theodore & Margaret Thorson Gary & Ruth McBride Kathryn K. Hamm* 1999 2004 2009 2014 John “Butch” Holden. They are “awards of Bob Whelan/Whelan Properties/ Gary* & Joanne E. Torfin Betsy J. McDowell John & Delphine Jacobsen Supreme Lumber Steve & Lauren Vogt Neil B. and Patricia* McMurrin Robin Norgaard Kelleher distinction,” honoring donors with cumulative Stephen G. Wick Mervin “Sock” Wagner* Dr. Thomas & Marilyn Miller giving of $50,000 or more. Elwood & Jean Largis E. Joseph & Jane Welle The Minneapolis Foundation Eva Lind* Builder’s Society - (50,000.00+) Wells Fargo Bank N.A. Minnesota Energy Resources Mary A. Mushel* White Earth Reservation Tribal Council Minnesota Society of Certified Public Accountants Scholarship Trudy & Kevin Rautio Bernice M. Anderson Charitable Rmndr. Unitrust Robert & DeAnn Zavoral Diane Moe & Thomas Fitzgerald Sanford Health Dollars Dr. Thomas J. Beech Gary & Marlene Moe Rich & Joyce Seigert/Edgewater Group Ambassador’s Society - (25,000.00+) Sharon Moe (Hampton Inn & Suites, Green Mill) Dr. Richard & Josephine Beitzel Provided 3M Foundation Betty Murray David L. & Kathryn S. Sorensen Bemidji Woolens, Inc./Bill Batchelder Ace on the Lake Naylor Electrical Construction Company, Inc. $1,200,000 George & Sandra Thelen The Bernick Companies Dr. Elaine D. Bohanon* Alltech Associates, Inc. James & Janice Naylor Security Bank USA $1,100,000 Bradley & Staci Borkhuis American Legion Post 14 NCS Pearson Winnifred Anderson* Darby & Geraldine Nelson - (100,000.00+) BSU Dining Services/ARAMARK $1,000,000 Growth of Director’s Society Lynne C. Bunt Estate Bill* & Jesse* Baer Dr. Raymond* and Jane* Nelson Donald Anderson* & Vicki Brown Carl & Terry Baer Dr. Lee A. Norman Foundation Jim* & Lorraine F. Cecil $900,000 Trent & Beth Baalke Michael & Noel Clay Beaver Bookstore North Central Door Company Bank Forward Dr. Marjory C. Beck NorthEnd Trust Assets Herb & Lynn Doran $800,000 $772,664 Ron Batchelder Joe & Karen Dunn Bemidji Dental Clinic Northern Aggregate, Inc.

Bemidji Lions Club Northland Electric $1,076,785 $35,000,000 Jeffrey & Kathy Baumgartner/Circle B Properties Rebecca Eggers* $700,000 Big North Distributing, Inc. Dr. Gary & Nancy Erickson/ Marie Bishop* Northwestern Surveying & Engineering, Inc. Gary S. Erickson, DDS Blandin Foundation Marc & Kay Olson Fred Breen* $552,353 $30,000,000 Kris & Grant Oppegaard/The Oppegaard Family Foundation $600,000 Raymond Breen* Kenneth & Mary* Erickson Bois Forte Reservation Tribal Council Otter Tail Power Company Dr. Almond & Shalyn Clark/Al Clark’s General Mills Foundation Robert & Lisa Bollinger $25,000,000 Joel & Kary Otto $500,000 Formula 4 Success Dr. Lowell* & Ardis* Gillett Alan P. Brew David & Dianne Parnow Coca-Cola Bottling Company of Bemidji, Inc. Dr. Muriel B. Gilman David & Stormi Brown $20,000,000 Edward & Marla Patrias $400,000 Dr. Donald & Petra DeKrey Bernard* & Fern* Granum Patrick Brown/Clem’s Hardward Hank $323,593 Dr. John C. Pearce $30,158,338 Dr. Richard & Dianne Hanson Wendy Brown $15,000,000 Dondelinger GM Stephen Pearce, M.D. $300,000

$12,646,308 Joan Campbell Anderson & David Anderson Enbridge Energy Company, Inc. Margaret H. Harlow*

$9,847,659 Rod & Delores Pickett Thomas & Joanne Heaviland John & Ann Carlson/John Carlson Agency, Inc. $200,000 $10,000,000 Dr. Bruce & Mary Jo Falk The Presto Foundation $7,724,608 Paul & Tammi Hedtke/Hedtke Family Trust Steve Stuby Carter, Jr. Federated Insurance Dr. Annie B. Henry Bertha Christianson* Raphael’s Bakery Cafe $5,000,000 Anthony S. Gramer $100,000 Lynne K. Holt Kenneth* & Marion M. Christianson REM Northstar, Inc. Bemidji Regional Office Russell* & Gudrun* R. Harding James & Carol Richards 0 William & Bette* Howe Citizens State Bank Midwest 0 Dr. Evan & Elaine* Hazard Annie M. Czarnecki* Dr. Tom & Sandra Richard 1999 2004 2009 2014 Dr. Myrtie A. Hunt* 1999 2004 2009 2014 Jim* & Marilyn Heltzer Esther F. Instebo* Eugene Dalzotto* RiverWood Bank Dr. Ruth Howe & Merril Thiel The Jay & Rose Phillips Family Foundation Deerwood Bank RJ Ahmann Company Paul & Lynn Hunt Alan & Judy Killian DeLaHunt Broadcasting Carol Russell/Russell Herder Dale & Michelle Ladig DeLoitte Foundation Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community Alan Korpi & Martha Nelson/Valvoline Dick’s Northside, Inc. { continued on next page } * Deceased Instant Oil Change 4646 | | BEMIDJI BSU FOUNDATION STATE UNIVERSITY ANNUAL REPORT New member www.BemidjiState.edu | 47 REPORT James & Joyce Hanko Dr. Dorothy L. Moore* o Hanson Electric of Bemidji, Inc Leo D. Morgan, Jr. President’s SOCIETY Linda S. Hanson Robb H. Naylor Hardees of Bemidji Gerald* & Fern* Nichols GIFTS Mark A. Shanfeld, MD, Ph.D. Burger King Corporation f James & Pamela Harrison North Country Dental Hazel Shimmin Estate Louis H. Buron Jr. Dr. Richard* and Dorothy Haugo Northern Amusement Robert W. Fiskum & Yvonne E. Siats-Fiskum* Robert C. Bush* Oluf* & Margaret* Haugsrud Northern Liquor Offsale Total Revenue Received Slim’s Bar & Grill Jeffrey P. Busse Headwaters Shrine Club David & Jean Olderman Bob & Jane Smith/Image Photography & Framing Dr. Mark & Mishel Carlson Kenneth G. Henrikson Bruce L. Olson Dr. Kathryn Smith Dr. Raymond & Margaret Carlson $6,000,000 Beverly Henriques Olson-Schwartz Funeral Home Buster & Helen Spaulding/Spaulding Motors, Inc Jason & Angela Caron Hobart Laboratories, Inc. Douglas L. Onan Michael & Melinda Spry Caswell International Corporation Hoeschler Fund - St. Paul Foundation Royal & Diane Orser Statement of Position $5,500,000 St. Joseph’s Area Health Services Central Valley Food Services, Inc. Honeywell Foundation Family & Friends of Ruth Ouverson Super 8 Motel Charter Communications Pamela Hovland Dr. Donna K. Palivec June 30, 2014 continued from page 47 } Dr. Thomas & Bonnie Swanson CliftonLarsonAllen LLP $5,000,000 { Kenneth & Kari Howe Greg & Kathy Palm Assets Dr. Martin & LaRae Tadlock Control Stuff IBM John & Lori Paris Eugene & Sue Teigland/Bemidji Sports Centre/ Cool Threads Insure Forward Pat Knoer State Farm Insurance Current Assets $4,500,000 $5,742,134 Ground Round Bret & Veronica Cooper Myriam Ivers Patterson’s Men’s Wear Cash and Cash Equivalents $ 52,420 Dr. Dave & Peggy Tiffany Veita L. Corbin Iverson Corner Drug R. Scott & Kathy Pearson Investments 22,749,992 Terri Traudt Corner Bar of Bemidji, Inc $4,000,000 Louise H. Jackson Rep. John S. Persell Accounts Receivable 7,741 Dr. Ken Traxler Country Kitchen Restaurant Richard & Sheri Jahner Dr. Martha & Don Peters Contributions Receivable 2,391,258 Tri-State Manufacturers’ Association William & Teresa Crews JC Penney Co., Inc. David Lee Peterson Estate Prepaid Expenses 3,899 Dr. James & Diane Tuorila Dean & Wendy Crotty $3,500,000 Jerry Downs Agency Debra F. Peterson Total Current Assets 25,205,310 USA Color Printing Scott Curb & Mary Boranian Johnson Controls Rohl & Patricia Peterson

Austin & Paula Wallestad Michael & Michelle Curfman Diane & Thomas Johnson Pickett Agency, Inc. $3,000,000 Richard & Judith Werner Dr. Caroline M. Czarnecki Property and Equipment 299,969

$2,742,721 Jeremiah D. Johnson Productivity, Inc. Drs. Larry & Ranae Womack Lyle E. Dally* Dr. Terrance & Susan Johnson Dr. Joanne M. Provo $2,500,000 Barbara L. Wylie Dave’s Pizza Dr. Johannas M. Jordan Jack* & Mary Betty Quistgard Other Assets Zetah Construction, Inc. Robert* & Jackie Decker Thomas & Susan Kaplan Michael & Jackie Rasch Contributions Receivable 4,484,798 Dr. Steve & Veronica DeKrey Jeff Keckheisen/Keck Sports Roger Rasmussen $2,000,000 Remainder Interest in Real Estate 132,485 Founder’s Society - (10,000.00+) John & Kay Delinsky Keg N’ Cork Dr. John & Mary Sue Redebaugh

$1,698,782 Cash Surrender Value Life Insurance 35,776 $1,510,571 Dr. Robert & Barbara Aalberts Delta Kappa Gamma Rich & Meredith Kehoe Richard Rude Architectural Total Other Assets 4,653,059 Don & Susan Addy Patrick & Barbara DeMarchi $1,500,000 Keith’s Pizza Dr. Patricia A. Rosenbrock Bernard V. Adlys Roxanne Desjarlait Dr. Debra Kellerman & Anthony Wandersee Ross Lewis Sign Company Allen Oman State Farm Agency - business sold James & Jana Dewar Jeffrey D. Kemink Stuart & Susan Rosselet Total Assets 30,158,338 $1,000,000 Carol M. Alstrom Dick’s Plumbing & Heating of Bemidji, Inc. Ken K Thompson Jewelry RP Broadcasting, Inc American Ass’n of Univ Women John T. Driessen David & Charlotte Kingsbury Dr. Samuel & Sara Sant Liabilities and Net Assets $500,000 American Family Insurance Shawn & Shaina Dudley Knife River Materials/ William & Rochelle Scheela Dr. Kris & Linda Anderson Jon & Beth Duncan MSU Resources Foundation Kevin & Paige Schoepel Current Liabilities Robin & DeAnne Anderson Dwayne Young, Inc. Drs. Raymond & Beatrice Knodel John* & Evelyn* Schuiling Accounts Payable $ 41,794 0 Boris & Caroline Andrican Plaster & Drywall Contractor Dr. Clayton & Ivy Knoshaug Walter & Mardene Schuiling Payroll Liabilities 25,985 1999 2004 2009 2014 Annexstad Family Foundation Ed Sauer Memorial Fund Paul & Catherine Koski John & Charlotte Schullo Annuities Payable, Current Portion 23,234 Arrow Printing, Inc. Eldercare Health Benefits Mgmt Systems, Inc Krigbaum & Jones, Ltd. John & Mary Seamans Accrued Interest Payable 2,636 Erbert & Gerbert’s Subs and Clubs Drs. Norman & Linda Baer Derek Kringen Patricia & Mark Shough Escrow Deposit 100,000 Janet Esty* Lois M. Kruger Estate Ryan & Jean Baer Pete & Marilyn Simonson Total Current Liabilities 193,649 Baratto Brothers Construction/Jim Barratto Herbert M. Fougner* Dr. Franklin & Diane Labadie Skyline Exhibits Rate of Investment Return Dr. James & Julie Barta Dr. Joann Fredrickson Dr. David & Alice Larkin Dr. Maria & Terry Statton Bear Creek Energy Michelle A. and Morris Frenzel Lesa & Jeff Lawrence Irene K. Stewart Long-term Liabilities 20% William & Maria Beitzel Laura Gaines Dr. Arthur & Judith Lee Willie & Arla Stittsworth Annuities Payable, Long Term Portion 172,980 Edward & Jennifer Belisle Dr. Fulton & Nancy Gallagher Hazel Leland* Stittsworth’s Meats Note Payable, Long Term Portion 732,250 Michael & Deanna Garrett 15% Beltrami Electric Cooperative, Inc. LePier Oil Company Maurice & Lorna Sullivan Total Long Term Liabilities 905,230 Bemidji Ambulance Service, Inc Dr. Daniel Gartrell & Dr. Julie Jochum Dr. Robert & Dale Ley Dr. Bruce & Shari Sutor Bemidji Building Center Georgia-Pacific Corp. - Superwood Paul & Teri Lindseth Chet Swedmark* & Helen Kohl-Swedmark 10% Total Liabilities 1,098,879 Bemidji Medical Equipment Dr. James & Connie Ghostley Mark & Monica Liska Systec, Inc. The Bemidji Rotary Club Col. Clark & Judith Gilbertson Brad & Dawn Logan Doug & Lori Taylor 5% Bemidji Welders Supply, Inc. Dr. Eric Gilbertson Dr. Kenneth & Mary Lundberg Teammates for Kids Foundation Net Assets June Bender Keith & Jeannie Gilbertson Steven Lundeen & Jennifer Driscoll Telespectrum Worldwide Unrestricted Net Assets 0% Kermit & Sandy Bensen Ordella M. Gilbertson Brian J. Maciej Jeff & Susan Tesch Lakeside Fund & Quasi Endowment Fund $ 1,543,905 Terry & Gail Bergum Marjorie & James Gildersleeve Keith Marek Jerry & Jane Thompson Alumni House Acquisition -45,000 Paul & Kathy Godlewski -5% Best of Bemidji Quarterly Magazine Mark’s Frame House/Mark & Linda LaFond Thorson, Inc. Imagine Tomorrow Campaign 2,755,429 Dr. Richard & Carol Goeb Marvin Windows & Doors Best Western Bemidji Chris & Dick Tolman Academic Affairs/Admissions Schol Funds 1,424,035 Jon & Linda Blessing Dr. Frank & Marilyn Goodell Douglas & Mary Mason -10% Mary M. Veranth Plant Fund 299,969 Bob Lowth Ford, Inc. Bruce L. Gordon MasTec North America Inc. Robert & Patricia Walrath Total Unrestricted Net Assets 5,978,338 Daniel & Midge Boettger Gourmet House Allen & Susie Mathieu Ruth E. Warde Estate -15% Dr. Mel & Ruby Bolster Bryan & Paulette Grand John & Judith McClellan Dr. Victor D. Weber* Howard & Rebecca Borden Great Lakes Gas Transmission Ltd Partnership Dr. Judith L. McDonald Julie A. Wegner Temporarily Restricted Net Assets 5,151,588 -20% Randy & Marlene Bowen Dr. Colleen R. Greer James D. McElmury George* & Paula Welte Permanently Restricted Net Assets 17,929,533 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 Trey & Ann Bowman Beulah Gregoire* Robin & Diane Mechelke Wes’ Plumbing & Heating Dr. John* & Ann* Brady James & Barbara Grier Medsave Family Pharmacy Bryan & Judy Westerman Total Net Assets 29,059,459 Robert & Susan Griggs Bravo Beverage Ltd Debra Melby* Harvey & Loris Westrom Keith W. Gunderson* Dr. Kathleen J. Meyer Annual Return Linda Brew Widseth Smith Nolting & Associates Total Liabilities and Net Assets 30,158,338 Gurnee K. Bridgman Richard F. Haberer* Midcontinent Communications Dr. Rodney Will & Anne Meredith-Will Phillip A. Buhn Lisa L. Haberman Midwest Cable Communications Jerry & Kathy Winans 10-Year Average Richard & Sheridan Hafdal Minnesota Humanities Commission James & Lois Wood Dr. Harold* & Renate* Hagg James & Sharon Molde Bud & Gloria Woodard * Deceased Dr. Robert & Sally Montebello 4848 | | BEMIDJI BSU FOUNDATION STATE UNIVERSITY ANNUAL REPORT New member www.BemidjiState.edu | 49 REPORT The Legacy Society recognizes and Elaine Bohanon*+ John & Walli Mitchell o Randy & Marlene Bowen Dr. Dorothy L. Moore*+ honors those alumni and friends Lloyd & Katherine Bradfield Tom & Mary Moberg GIFTSf who have provided for Bemidji Fred Breen* Harry Moore*+ State University in their wills or Raymond Breen* Claude Morris*+ have exercised one of the several Alan P. Brew Richard and Susan Morris Gurnee K. Bridgman+ Betty Murray planned giving options available Virginia Bridgman* Mary Ann Mushel* through the BSU Foundation. Dr. William & Henrietta Britton Norman* & Judy Nelson Lynne C. Bunt *+ Dr. Raymond A. Nelson* Jeffrey P. Busse+ Wilford* & Albioni* Nelson Dr. Dale and Joanne Carlson Dr. John & Monica* O’Boyle SOCIETY Dr. Joseph & Jenifer Carson Dr. Charles K. O’Connor Legacy Cynthia & James Cashman Beulah M. Parisi Charles & Nancy Aldrich Dr. Sam* & Rose* Chen+ David & Dianne Parnow Donald G. Anderson*+ Richard Chopp* Lawrence W. Perkins Joan Campbell Anderson & Bertha Christianson* Robert & Mary Lou Peters David Anderson+ Dr. Almond & Shalyn Clark David Peterson*+ Boris & Caroline Andrican+ Dr. Caroline M. Czarnecki+ Rohl & Patricia Peterson Bill* & Jessie* Baer+ Lyle E. Dally*+ Dr. Joanne M. Provo+ Grant Bateman* Dr. Donald* & Petra DeKrey+ Drs. Jon & Patricia Quistgaard Dr. M. James & Nancy Bensen+ Rebecca Eggers* David & Kim Ramsey Evelyn Berg* Fritz & Robin Ehlers Dr. Tom & Sandra Richard Dan and Terri Bergan Irvin & Kay Engebretson Bill & Lois Robertson M. Fern Birnstihl*+ Eldridge* & Jean Erickson Pamela Fladeland-Rodriguez DECEMBER MARCH Marie Bishop*+ Donald & Mary Erickson Dr. Patricia A. Rosenbrock Jody & Gene Bisson Janet M. Erickson Carol A. Russell 6 Instrumental Jingle Jazz 7 Mesa, Ariz., Golf & Luncheon Dr. Bruce & Mary Jo Falk John & Charlotte Schullo 3 p.m., Bangsberg Fine Arts Complex Apache Wells Country Club Ann Moore Flowers*+ Mark & Margaret Schultz Golf: 8 a.m., Luncheon: 11:30 a.m. Dr. William & Margie Forseth Dr. Duane & Marilyn Sea 5-6 Madrigal Dinners Jerry & Shirley Froseth Ken* & Betti Sherman 7 p.m., Beaux Arts Ballroom, Hobson 8 Sun City West, Ariz., Luncheon Helen Gill* Hazel Shimmin* Memorial Union 11:30 a.m., Briarwood Country Club Statement of Activities Dr. Lowell* & Ardis* Gillett+ Lowell & Lois Sorenson Ronald & Nancy Gladen Duane & Celeste Sperl 7 Madrigal Dinners 9 Tucson, Ariz., Luncheon Year ending June 30, 2014 James D. Gribble+ Michael & Melinda Spry 5 p.m., Beaux Arts Ballroom, Hobson 11:30 a.m., BlueFin Seafood Bistro Beulah Gregoire Irwin & Patricia St. John Memorial Union Unrestricted Temporarily Permanently Total Dennis & Patricia Grimes Jack & Marie St. Martin APRIL Restricted Restricted Keith W. Gunderson*+ J. Ruth Stenerson* 10 Voltage Concert Support and Revenue Cedsel J. Hagen* Willie & Arla Stittsworth 7:30 p.m., Bangsberg Fine Arts Complex 8 Student Scholarship & Creative Kathryn K. Hamm* Maurice & Lorna Sullivan Contributions $1,447,812 $2,192,737 $3,640,549 Achievement Conference James & Joyce Hanko Chet Swedmark* & Helen Kohl-Swedmark 10 Emeriti & Legacy Society Holiday Social Endowment Gifts 1,600,850 1,600,850 Linda S. Hanson Melanie & Michael Teems 3-5 p.m., American Indian Resource 10 42nd Annual Pow Wow Investment Income 319,163 1,879,370 2,198,533 Luther & Diann Hanson Dr. Dave & Peggy Tiffany+ Center, BSU Campus 7 p.m., John Glas Fieldhouse Royalty Revenue 10,326 10,326 Russell* & Gudrun* Harding Dr. Ken Trexler Lease Revenue 27,852 61,087 88,939 Margaret H. Harlow*+ Joanne E. Torfin 12-13 11 42nd Annual Pow Wow Increase in Cash Surrender Value Oluf* & Margaret* Haugsrud+ John Traxler* Madrigal Dinners 1 p.m., John Glas Fieldhouse Life Insurance and Actuarial Adjust 191 191 Paul A. & Tammi L. Hedtke Bennett & Joan Trochlil 7 p.m., Beaux Arts Ballroom, Hobson Professional Education Hall of Fame Net Assets Released from Restriction Beverly Henriques Dr. James & Diane Tuorila Memorial Union 17 Dr. Annie B. Henry Floyd A. Tweten 6 p.m., American Indian Resource Center, Administrative Assessment 276,593 -276,593 0 Dr. Ruth Howe & Merril Thiel+ Nancy and Richard Vyskocil Varsity Singers BSU Campus Investment Income (Loss) -5,431 5,431 0 14 Dr. Myrtie A. Hunt*+ Mervin Wagner* 3 p.m., Bangsberg Fine Arts Complex Satisfaction of Purpose Restrictions 2,272,719 -2,272,719 0 Esther F. Instebo*+ Jeff & Christel Wallin 21 Varsity Singers Spring Concert Total Support and Revenue 4,354,656 1,578,451 1,606,281 7,539,388 John & Delphine Jacobsen Dr. Victor D. Weber* JANUARY 7:30 p.m., Bangsberg Fine Arts Complex Christine Janda* Robert & Jeanette Welle Expenses Edwin* & Myra* Johnson Tom & Paulette Welle 23-24 MAY Sam & Peggy* Johnson+ George* & Paula Welte North Star College Cup Program Services

Margaret H. Johnson*+ Wesley W. Winter* 2014-15 Xcel Energy Center, St. Paul Golden Beaver Luncheon Scholarships 1,076,785 1,076,785 8 Jeffrey & Marjorie Johnson Shirley M. Yliniemi* Pre-game gathering: McGovern’s Pub 11:30 a.m., American Indian Resource Special Events and Other Services 1,884,450 1,884,450 Vince Johnson*+ Robert and Sherry Young Center, BSU Campus Total Program Services 2,961,235 2,961,235 Wilbur Johnson*+ Charles & Susan Zielin FEBRUARY Supporting Services Dr. Johannas M. Jordan Six anonymous Commencement Management & General 189,380 189,380 Robin Norgaard Kelleher *Deceased 13 MN Music Educators Association (MMEA) 2 p.m., Sanford Center, Bemidji William & Patricia Kelly Fundraising Expenses 679,565 679,565 +Charter Member CALENDAR BSU Social Total Supporting Services 868,945 868,945 Richard & Sharon King+ 5-7 p.m., Mason’s Restaurant Barre Lillie M. Kleven*+ Bolded names are new legacy society Total Expenses 3,830,180 3,830,180 Eva Lind*+ members in 2014 Knife River Materials Hardwater Classic 14 Keith Malmquist* Ice Fishing Tournament ALUMNI EVENT INFORMATION Change in Net Assets 524,476 1,578,451 1,606,281 3,709,208 Neil & Patricia*. McMurrin Noon, Nymore Access, Lake Bemidji Nelmarie Melville 218-755-3989 or 1-877-278-2586 (toll free) Net Assets, Beginning of Year 5,453,862 3,573,137 16,323,252 25,350,251 Kathryn & Donald Mertz 20 Athletic Hall of Fame Net Assets, End of Year 5,978,338 5,151,588 17,929,533 29,059,459 Margaret A. Miles 5 p.m., All-Athlete Social, Sanford Center, [email protected] John & Susan Minter Bemidji www.bsualumni.org 21 Athletic Hall of Fame Program & Brunch 10 a.m., Sanford Center, Bemidji 5050 | | BEMIDJI BSU FOUNDATION STATE UNIVERSITY ANNUAL REPORT www.BemidjiState.edu | 51 1500 Birchmont Drive NE Bemidji, MN 56601-2699

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