Lisa Peterson Alumni Profile
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SUMMER 2015 TETONTHUNDER WILLISTON STATE COLLEGE FOUNDATION: BRINGING COMMUNITIES & COLLEGE TOGETHER LISA PETERSON ALUMNI PROFILE ATHLETIC UPDATES HISTORIC BASEBALL 10 14 Opportunity. It’s out there. 18 Right now, the future is brighter than ever for your financial growth and you need advisors who see the right opportunities. Our wealth management team offers well-designed, carefully 24 crafted plans to fit your goals and comfort levels. Raymond James Financial Services complements American State Bank’s Trust Department services. 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American State Bank and Trust Company is independent of Raymond James. 27 TETONTHUNDER CAMPUS NEWS CONTRIBUTING 4 WELCOME | 2 WRITERS NATALIE POPKO CAMPUS NEWS | 3 TETON ATHLETICS ALUMNI SPOTLIGHT CONTRIBUTING LISA PETERSON | 4 PHOTOGRAPHY CAMPUS UPDATES CRYSTAL HOTCHKISS HAPPENINGS | 6 TETON ATHLETICS STEVENS RENO | 8 WSC MARKETING 10 TRAINND | 9 EDITOR FIELD TRIPS | 10 MATT NELSON SKILLSUSA | 11 DESIGNER | PICTURES 12 JENNY WOLF BEHIND THE SCENES KAYLA ANDERSON | 14 GARY BICKEL | 15 14 WSC TETONS HOCKEY | 16 OUR TETONS | 17 BASEBALL | 18 SOFTBALL | 19 BASKETBALL | 20 BOOSTERS | 22 18 STUDENT LIFE GRADUATION | 24 DAN PLUCKNETT| 26 EMMA KELLER | 27 WSC FOUNDATION DONATION | 28 24 UPDATE | 29 501 18th Street East, Williston, ND 58801 27 [email protected] | 701.572.9275 [NEWS] WHAT A DIFFERENCE FIVE YEARS CAN MAKE. CAMPUS Spring 2015 saw record enrollment of 1,000 students. Thirty- eight percent of these students were full-time, and sixty-two percent were part-time. During the 2013-2014 fiscal year TrainND, the workforce training division, enrolled 16,205 total (11,696 unduplicated) students and contracted with 381 businesses. Thanks to the Williams County Scholarship, which awards graduating high school seniors a two-year, tuition- free scholarship to WSC, enrollment is expected to increase dramatically. WSC has already had a 117% application increase for the Fall 2015 semester. Stevens Hall has been redesigned for easy and visible access to Student Services, Instruction, and the Student Success Center. With the completion of the Stevens Hall renovation, the Learning Commons and Student Success Center are now connected, which means sharing of space and resources is simplified for students as well as faculty and staff. TrainND added another 29,000 square feet in training space. What a difference five years can make. Williston State has prepared itself to be the fastest growing college in the state, in the highest cost region of the country. 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WEST SUITE 300 2 | TETON INSTITUTIONAL UPDATE ATHLETICS UPDATE Beginning June 29, Williston Teton Hockey will have a new location State College will have a new vice come November, when the Raymond president for academic affairs. Center will open its doors as the new Dr. John Miller holds a Doctor of “Home of the Tetons”. Education (Ed.D.) from University of Idaho, with emphases in supervision “We are very excited to be able to move of instruction and education Teton Hockey to Raymond Center,” leadership. He comes to WSC with notes Teton Head Hockey Coach John a wealth of knowledge and thirty Bowkus. “With this move, we will have years of experience in education. In a venue that we will be able to call all his previous position as instructional our own.” dean at the College of Southern Idaho, Miller was responsible for WSC Athletic Director Dan Artamenko is the administration of technical pleased about the move. “The Agri- and general education programs Sports Complex provides a great rink in agricultural science, trades and and atmosphere for hockey, but due to industry, education, information location and ice-time capacity, your fan technology, and business. base tends to be the same people,” Artamenko notes. “Being in a location that is easily visible, closer to major employers such as Mercy Hospital and WSC, we feel fans are more likely to check out our games.” “Additionally, moving into town allows us access to high-speed Internet so we Mykle Rud, a sophomore out of Garrison, ND, has signed can video stream our games online,” with Grace University in Omaha, Nebraska. Rud played adds Artamenko. After successful in sixteen games as a sophomore and scored thirty-two streaming with more than a thousand points on 57% shooting. views per basketball game last year, Teton Athletics appreciates the GLOW IN THE PARK importance of providing the viewing options for people who are unable to Teton Athletics collaborated with Williston’s Band Day attend games. committee to host a neon-themed fun run/walk on May 8, the night before Band Day. “Glow in the Park provides MOVING ON a great opportunity for the Teton athletes to get out in the community and help raise money for the programs,” WSC also has a new nursing Two sophomores from the Teton explains Megan Theis, Glow in the Park coordinator. coordinator. Gail Raasakka has been Men’s Basketball team signed their “The Band Day committee works very hard to honor the teaching at the New Town site for scholarships to play for four-year heritage of the original festival while incorporating fresh two years and has many years of universities on April 15. ideas into this eighty-four year-old event.” working in the medical community. Raasakka has been working closely Teyvon Myers, the NJCAA leading “This is a great addition to Band Day,” agrees Sabrina with outgoing nursing coordinator scorer, signed with West Virginia Ramey, event and communication coordinator for the Janet Johnson to ensure a smooth University. West Virginia advanced to Williston Convention and Visitor Bureau. Glow in the transition of leadership. the NCAA Sweet 16 before losing to Park is for people of all ages and fitness levels to get #1 ranked Kentucky this year. Myers will active supporting Teton Athletics. Participants ran WSC Foundation welcomes both bring much needed offensive punch or walked the 5K that started at the fairgrounds and Miller and Raasakka to their new with him, as he averaged over twenty- continued through Spring Lake Park. positions at WSC and looks forward five points per game on 45% shooting. to working with them as they help guide the college into an exciting new school year. RELAY FOR LIFE @ WSC TETON The Upper Missouri Relay for Life will THUNDER be held on WSC's campus this year. Please join us July 31. | SUMMER 2015 | 3 “I HAD A GREAT TEACHER IN MR. [SPOTLIGHT] WESTERGAARD. AFTER THOSE CLASSES I REALIZED I WANTED TO PURSUE ALUMNI SOMETHING IN THE MEDICAL FIELD.” LISA PETERSON, PA-C BY NATALIE POPKO Peterson completed the twenty-six month needs,” Peterson explains. “I work Born and raised in Williston, Lisa Peterson knew MPAS program, doing some of her clinical hard to help patients. There are a lot that Williston State College was where she work at the Craven-Hagan Clinic in Williston. of people you cannot help, but the wanted to take her general education classes. After her graduation in 2007, Peterson was ones that you can really outweigh all She didn’t know what career she wanted to hired full-time at Craven-Hagan in family the ones that you can’t. When people pursue right away, so she thought living at practice. That same year Peterson married want to come back to me, it gives me home and saving money would be better for her high school sweetheart Steve, who had satisfaction that they trust and want her future. also attended WSC and played baseball me to help them.” for the Tetons. Both had found jobs in Luckily for her, she discovered a family-like their professions, and they were able to If she had to do it over again, Peterson atmosphere at WSC, where the classes were be back with their families. “My husband wouldn’t do anything different. She small and the teachers were attentive. Neil was already working as an electrician in loved her time at WSC and her Westergaard, for example, taught her anatomy Williston, which is what he went to school suggestion to any students interested and physiology and made a big impact. “I for,” notes Peterson, “So I knew I wanted to in pursuing a medical career would be loved learning about the human body and be in Williston, and I was lucky enough to to consider Williston State College. “I how it works,” recalls Peterson. “I had a great land the job.” would pick WSC in a heartbeat,” she teacher in Mr. Westergaard. After those classes says. “It is a great school for a two- I realized I wanted to pursue something in the Peterson has been working for Craven- year degree and is a great stepping medical field.” Hagan for seven years, seeing patients at stone if you want to transfer to another the clinic much like a typical primary care college, especially for anyone thinking After completing two years at WSC, Peterson doctor.