the Fall 2007 StoryCatcher A publication of the Mari Sandoz Heritage Society

 The Mari Sandoz Heritage Society newsletter has a new name and a new design and is published three times a year. Caroline Sandoz Pifer Collection Illustrates Mari’s Life, Passion In order to “celebrate the life and Caroline Sandoz Pifer kept and literature of Mari Sandoz and the assembled Mari’s artifacts at her ranch culture of the High Plains,” the staff home south of Gordon. In the decades of Mari Sandoz High Plains Heritage that she maintained the collection Center must spend hours reading, before donating it to the Sandoz Center, sorting, cataloging, and saving the items Caroline added her touch by retyping that defined Mari Sandoz’s life. letters and adding cover sheets and notes It is important work. These carefully to Mari’s newspaper articles, books, and preserved pieces allow us to see both manuscripts. her personality and her passion. “It is a fine gift that Caroline kept all of Mari Sandoz defined herself by her hats. After Mari’s death, younger sister, Mari’s papers, books, letters and items together for a excellent museum and More than 30 of her hats, Native artwork, archive,” said Sybil Malmberg Berndt, and other personal items were donated to the long-time friend of Caroline and a Mari Sandoz Center. Sandoz Heritage Society board member. The Sandoz Pifer Collection contains many copies of Mari’s many “Mari’s greatest wish has come true,” manuscripts, short stories, essays she said, “to have a repository in the and poetry; personal notes; research vast Great Plains to hold her life’s work files and book-related material; for posterity and so the world might flyers, programs and invitations to benefit.” events; family documents and Mari’s The Chadron Collection correspondence. Although, the bulk of Mari Sandoz’s “There are boxes of Mari’s personal research collection is housed in Love files and many of the folders labeled in Library at the University of Nebraska- her handwriting, said Rolfsmeier. Lincoln, the Sandoz Center in Chadron, has copies of many of those documents Since July 2006, Rolfsmeier has been as well as paper items that did not go to working her way through the “paper” UNL and an assortment of her personal part of the collection in order to items. develop a cohesive research inventory that is organized and accessible. “Before sending Mari’s correspondence Rolfsmeier also found materials that to UNL, Caroline made copies of Caroline collected about her sister, many items and those documents were Sarah Polak, director, at the Mari Sandoz such as media clippings and writings by given to the Sandoz Center,” said Susan High Plains Heritage Center, steams one of others who were inspired by Mari. Rolfsmeier, archivist at the Center. Mari’s suits for a photo shoot. See Collection on page 3.

The Story Catcher Fall 2007 The Story Catcher Humanities Grant Allows Society to Distribute The Story Catcher is published three DVD of Sandoz Interviews and Study Guides times a year by the Mari Sandoz Heritage Society, a 501(c)(3) non- In April, the Mari Sandoz Heritage Society received a grant for $2,500 from profit organization. the Nebraska Humanities Council to promote the reading and discussion of The Sandoz Society seeks to build Sandoz’s Crazy Horse: Strange Man of the Oglalas by distributing a DVD and study appreciation of Mari Sandoz’s body guide to all Nebraska public and private high schools. of work, to preserve the literary The DVD, entitled “Song of the Plains,” is a reproduction of a 60-minute works and legacy of this premier his- torian, and to raise funds to support video filmed in 1976 by Nebraska Educational Television (NET) in which these efforts. Mari Sandoz discusses her life, philosophy, most of her major books, and her approach to writing. Each year, the Society hosts a con- ference that celebrates and studies On the DVD, talk-show-host Dick Cavett interviews her two sisters and two the works of the author, publishes of her brothers on Mari’s life; and her work is discussed by scholars and others. the writing of scholars and students, promotes student writing contests Omaha native and late actress Dorothy McGuire reads passages from the and writing institutes; and sponsors Sandoz books. scholarships. By providing the DVD to high schools, the Sandoz Additionally, the Society provides Society hopes to spark the imagination of students collections on loan to the Mari and educators and to create classroom discussions on Sandoz High Plains Heritage Cen- Crazy Horse. Published in 1942, the book is one of ter at Chadron State College and supports its academic, archives and Sandoz’s best-known works. research programs. Written from the perspective of the Lakota people, Address changes should be mailed the book promotes an understanding of their to 2301 NW 50th Street, Lincoln, NE way of life and advances ethnic, sociological, and 68524. philosophical themes. More than a description of Contributions to the Mari Sandoz an individual, Crazy Horse is an in-depth look at the Heritage Society are tax-deductible. culture and spirituality of the Oglala Sioux. For membership information, see page 7, call 402-304-8103, e-mail “On the DVD, Sandoz explains how she approached marisandoz_society@windstream. getting into the psychology of another race as she wrote Crazy Horse,” said net, or www.marisandoz.org. Ron Hull, producer of the original video and past president of the Sandoz Heritage Society. Mari Sandoz Crazy Horse: Strange Man of the Oglalas was chosen as the literary work for the Mari Sandoz (1896-1966) came from 2007 One Book One Nebraska statewide reading program that encourages the Sandhills of Nebraska to write citizens to read the book and participate in discussions and related community some of America’s most enduring events. books on Great Plains history. As the author of Old Jules, Chey- While proclaiming Crazy Horse as the 2007 One Book selection Gov. Dave enne Autumn, and Crazy Horse, the Heineman said the reading of Crazy Horse provides a common ground for Strange Man of the Oglalas, and Nebraska citizens to come together to learn about and discuss Native-American others, she was a tireless researcher, culture, plains history and contemporary issues. a true storyteller, and an artist pas- sionately dedicated to a place The “Song of the Plains” DVD can be purchased for $9.95 from Nebraska little known and a people largely Education Television by calling: 402-472-3611 or 800-634-6788. b misunderstood. As a historian and as a novelist, Sandoz stands in the front ranks of western writers and Activities to mark the 2007 celebration of One Book One Nebraska are being has achieved a secure place as coordinated by the Mari Sandoz High Plains Heritage Center at Chadron one of the finest authors in Ameri- State College. Go to www.onebookonenebraska.org for discussion questions can literature. and program ideas. Book Club Kits are available from the Nebraska Library She created vivid stories of the Commission and the Nebraska Regional Library Systems at www.nlc.state.ne.us/ last days of the American frontier, ref/bookclubkits.html. 2007 One Book One Nebraska is cosponsored by the Mari and was an internationally known Sandoz Heritage Society, Nebraska Center for the Book, Nebraska Humanities chronicler of the West and one of Council, Nebraska Library Association, Nebraska Library Commission and other Nebraska’s most important writers. organizations. The Story Catcher 2 Fall 2007 Collection Illustrates Mari’s Passion (continued from Page 1) “I became immersed in her life,” apartment from the time of her death, Rolfsmeier said. “Her writing her clothes and personal effects, her was so eloquent and she used her infamous collection of about 30 hats, correspondence to advocate for better Native American artwork, dishes, treatment for the Sioux and Cheyenne collectibles, books and photos. tribes.” Most Items Are Categorized She was not asking for handouts or Sandoz Center Director Sarah Polak further government welfare, she said, said that almost all of the “three- but Mari was working to shed light on dimensional objects” in the Pifer the challenges native people faced and collection are in the Center’s database Mari’s youngest sister, Caroline Sandoz Pifer, she was soliciting positive economic and that many of the thousands of changes for them. As an indicator of who lives in Gordon, recently celebrated her photographs are scanned into the 98th birthday. her commitment, Sandoz went on computer and are “searchable.” a game show called “Strike It Rich” and used the proceeds to buy art and Because Rolfsmeier is leaving her cataloging of the entire collection is athletic supplies for Indian schools. position as archivist, her goal was to get completed. the paper collection in order As with any venture in organization, “I was moved so that Sandoz scholars to tears reading Rolfsmeier, too, found the peculiar and and others interested in her hard to categorize. She discovered a her words, personal documents will be seeing her scrap of paper that was headed, “No able to find what they need Time For.” Listed below were people dedication to with greater ease. this cause and The Caroline Sandoz Pifer Collection on whom Sandoz no longer wanted to her tremendous includes many items from Mari’s clothes “After months of going waste time. passion for and personal effects. through boxes and piles For additional information about the the people of paper, examining, Caroline Sandoz Pifer Collection or and the land,” Rolfsmeier said, “Most organizing, and putting specific items within the collection, of my previous work has been with documents into new folders and please contact Sarah Polak at the Mari natural history collections and, while protective boxes,” Rolfsmeier said, “the Sandoz High Plains Heritage Center: I anticipated enjoying the challenge end product is almost in sight.” 308-432-6401 or [email protected]. The of working with this collection, I did The container list for the paper items Center is located at Chadron State not expect to become as emotionally alone is 40 pages long. A longer, more College, 1000 Main Street, Chadron, involved as I have.” complete list will be produced once the NE 69337. b Stacks and Stacks of Material A few months ago, Malmberg Berndt, on an errand for Rolfsmeier, took New Book Features “Flora of Nebraska” a note written in the l930’s by Mari Sandoz to Mary Bryan Forsytle to A new book on Nebraska plants was Nebraska plants growing outside Caroline for identification. unveiled at the Mari Sandoz High Co-author Steven Rolfsmeier, who was Plains Heritage Center during a recep- “Wow, she immediately remembered associated with the High Plains Her- the letter and its contents and gave me tion held on what would have been barium at Chadron State for the past directions for Susan’s placement of Mari Sandoz’s 101st birthday—May 12, four years, said about 2,000 plants are it,” said Malmberg Berndt. “Caroline 2007. described in the book. appreciates Susan who came to visit her The book, “Flora of Nebraska,” pub- Only 1,000 copies of the book were and the work she has done to search lished by the University of Nebraska- printed and half of them have been through stacks and stacks of material Lincoln is regarded as one of the most sold. and to organize the collection into a comprehensive ever produced on workable archive.” Nebraska plants. Copies of “Flora in Nebraska” are on sale at the Mari Sandoz High Plains In addition to the documents, the At nearly 1,000 pages, it includes Sandoz Pifer Collection includes Heritage Center for $60 each. www. detailed descriptions and distribution csc.edu/sandoz. b furniture from Mari’s New York maps for all native and introduced

The Story Catcher 3 Fall 2007 Sandoz Center Exhibits Author of Journey of August 20 – October 20 Crazy Horse, Joseph Zachary Even Marshall III, to Speak Zachary Even’s outstanding wildlife artwork is featured on the 2007 Habitat in October Stamp. He is a 2003 graduate of Chad- Joseph M. Marshall III, an acclaimed ron State College. historian, storyteller and author of Sandoz Center November 1 to December 1 The Journey of Crazy Horse: A Lakota “Between Fences” from the Smithso- History, will deliver the keynote ad- Celebrates Fifth Year dress for the Nebraska Book Festival nian Institution The idea of establishing a center on Friday, Oct. 26, 2007. The Smithsonian Traveling Exhibition dedicated to Mari Sandoz was around Members of the Mari Sandoz Heri- in the 1970s as part of an early long- “Between Fences” looks at the defini- tion of human relationships by and tage Society are invited to attend range plan for the Mari Sandoz Heritage through fences and diverse fence types. the address which will begin at 5:30 Society. Finally in September 2002, The Center’s programming will focus p.m., at the Nebraska State Capitol, the Mari Sandoz High Plains Heritage on the battles between farmers and 15th and K Streets, in Lincoln. Center was dedicated on the campus of ranchers, fought with barbed wire fence, Chadron State College in Northwestern Marshall was born and raised on which were flash points in the nation- Nebraska. the Rosebud Sioux Indian Reserva- wide debate over enclosure and access tion in South Dakota in a traditional On Sept. 7 and 8, 2007, the Center will to land and resources. native household by his maternal host its official fifth anniversary celebra- December 15 to January 19 grandparents. tion. “Willa Cather and Material Culture” In that environment where his first On Friday, Sept. 7, Dr. William Bauer from the Cather Foundation language was Lakota, he also learned speak at a public presentation entitled In a reciprocal agreement, the Sandoz the ancient tradition of oral story- “Remembering Indian Lives” Four telling. American Indian Biographies from the Center will host “Willa Cather and American West” at 7 p.m. at the Sandoz Material Culture” on the importance Now he is Lakota historian, teacher Center. of objects to the life and writings of and actor. In addition to six nonfic- Cather and in October and November tion works and one novel, Marshall Dr. Bauer, who grew up on the Round 2007, the Red Cloud Opera House at has written screenplays. Also, several Valley Reservation, in northern Califor- the Cather Center will be hosting Old of his books have been published in nia, is a Native American historian and Jules Country, a photographic exhibit French, Hebrew, and Korean. Associate Professor of History from developed by Kira Gale, Sandoz Society the University of Wyoming. member. His sixth book, The Journey of Crazy Horse (Viking Penguin), is a biogra- On Saturday, the activities planned in- The Coffee Gallery phy from the Lakota viewpoint of clude an open house, tours, a children’s The permanent exhibits in the C. F. the greatest Lakota warrior, based program, a free an Indian Taco feed and Coffee Gallery at the Mari Sandoz High primarily on oral accounts. Now a possible concert. Plains Heritage Center will be complet- in its fifth hard cover printing, the Dr. Bauer will also participate on a ed in November 2007. book has been featured twice on the Sandoz literary panel teleconference for The Gallery will highlight the history C-SPAN Book TV broadcast. Nebraska schools on Friday afternoon. and culture of the cattle ranching indus- For more information on Joseph The topic is “The Enduring Legacy of try in the High Plains. Col. C.F. Coffee Marshall III, go to www.thunder- Mari Sandoz.” was one of the first cattle ranchers in dreamers.com. what is now northwest Nebraska. His Updates on Center anniversary activities Marshall will also be a member of a can be found at www.csc.edu/sandoz. grandson, Bill Coffee, and wife Virginia, were the lead donors for the construc- panel of biographers presenting at tion of the Coffee Gallery. the Nebraska Book Festival, on Oct. The Mari Sandoz Heritage Center 27. To register for the festival, which is located at Chadron State College, The Gallery features a series of videos features programs for adults and 1000 Main Street, Chadron, NE and a favorite among visitors is a film children, go to http://www.unl.edu/ showing a ranch family putting up hay 69337. Phone: 308-432-6401. NCB/current_festival.html b in the 1930s. This exhibition is on the Web site: www.csc.edu/sandoz lower level of the Sandoz Center. b The Story Catcher 4 Fall 2007 New Members Join Sandoz Board of Directors Four new members were elected to the ous events in the Sandhills,” he said. Alfred “Bud” Pagel, Lincoln Mari Sandoz Heritage Society Board of “My family annually picked apples at Bud Pagel is a third generation Nebras- Directors in March 2007. Wally Seiler the Sandoz orchard south of Gordon ka journalist and, like his grandparents was featured in the summer edition of and in the late 1960’s, Old Jules’ great and parents before him, he once owned The Story Catcher. grandson, Jules, boarded with my family and published the Neligh Leader news- in Alliance while he attended school in paper in Neligh where he was born. Scott Kleeb, Hastings there. “My grandfather founded the Neligh Scott Kleeb’s Kusek was born and raised in Alli- newspaper in 1885,” Pagel said. great-grandfather, ance. In 1970, he went to work for the Albert Kleeb, was Burlington Northern Railroad to earn Although claiming to be retired, the born in a dug-out money for college and never left. The Professor Emeritus of the University of outside of Bro- last 37 years, he has worked as a loco- Lincoln (UNL) College of Journalism ken Bow before motive engineer, operating trains in still “teaches a class or two.” the turn of the Nebraska, South Dakota and Wyoming. century. In addition to his He is presently serving his third two- 25 years at UNL, With a life-long year term as mayor of Alliance after Pagel served appreciation being elected to the Alliance City Coun- as an adjunct Kleeb of his family’s cil in 1996. Kusek also serves on the professor of pioneering heritage Executive Committee of the League of Journalism at in Nebraska and a doctoral degree in Nebraska Municipalities and represents the University American Western History, Kleeb said, the City of Alliance on electricity and of Nebraska at “the opportunity to be a part of the natural gas committees. Omaha. He Mari Sandoz Heritage Society, which also worked as Kusek has been a board member of celebrates the rich history of our na- a writer for the Pagel several foundations, served as a union tion’s homesteaders, our history, and Omaha World-Herald official for the Brotherhood of Loco- our heroes is a cherished one.” Magazine; an assistant city editor for motive Engineers and chairman of the the World-Herald; a freelance writer in Kleeb was the 2006 Democratic nomi- BN/BNSF Division Safety Committees Ireland; and a reporter for the Miami nee for Nebraska’s 3rd Congressional and is active in the Alliance Holy Rosary (Fla.) Herald. District. He is currently working as an Catholic Church. advocate of renewable energy sources Over the years, he received more than Kusek feels the while helping sell beef internationally 25 reporting and teaching awards, in- Mari Sandoz for a Sandhills cattle ranch. cluding three national honors. Heritage Society He recently accepted a teaching position is important to When he was inducted into the Nebras- with Hastings College and married Jane preserving the ka Press Association’s Hall of Fame in Fleming. history of the October 2006, Pagel joined his mother “In choosing to remain in Nebraska,” High Plains and Ruth E. Pagel who had also received the Kleeb said, “I arrived at a very simple Western Ne- honor. They became the only mother braska. and son recipients. realization: my home is here; my history Kusek is rooted here; my family still ranches “By looking back we His first recollection of Mari Sandoz here, and I remain excited about the are able to improve was seeing a photo of his mother hold- future of our state.” today and to dream of better tomor- ing apart a barbed wire fence while San- rows,” he said. “It is an honor to serve doz climbed through with her “rear end Dan Kusek, Alliance on the Sandoz Society Board of Direc- in the air.” Mari had traveled to Neligh Dan Kusek’s interest in the writings of tors.” specifically to look at shelterbelts. Mari Sandoz began when he was very Kusek and his wife, Jane, have been Since then, he and his wife Anne have young. married more than 30 years and they learned to love Sandoz’s work. The “At various times I had the opportunity have three sons. Pagels have one son. to meet all of Mari’s siblings at vari-

The Story Catcher 5 Fall 2007 Range Management Students Supported My Favorite by Pilster Endowment Passage from Earlier this year, seven Chad- ron State College students Crazy Horse attended the 60th annual Society for Range Manage- Brian Rockey, Board Member ment conference in Reno, Nev. During the 2007 Mari Sandoz The focus of the international Heritage Society Conference, four meeting was “Managed Range- speakers read their favorite passages lands: Traditions and Transi- from Crazy Horse: Strange Man of tions.” the Oglalas by Mari Sandoz. The students received support from the Pilster Endowment Book II, The Glorious Warrior through the Mari Sandoz Chapter 5, So Long As Grass Shall Heritage Society to attend the Students who attended the Range Management conference Grow (beginning on page 205) conference. are, from left, Joe Martin, Matt Lucas, Lori Jeffery, Janny Walker, Dan Ruterbories, Craig Eddie and “This year it seemed that spring would According to the Chadron State Kimmy Mott. never come to the Powder River country again, the new grass never be College newspaper, The Eagle, Butterfield praised the Sandoz Society born. Then suddenly the sun was warm prior to the conference, students were for its sponsorship of the program. required to take the Undergraduate as dance fires along the south slopes. Range Management Exam, and partici- “It is a great time to be a range man- Snow water roared gray in the canyons, pate in other competitions including ager, as there are probably 20 jobs for and the ice broke from the streams and a plant identification exam, a poster every student who graduates from our piled itself high on the flooded banks. contest and public speaking. During the program,” Butterfield said. “Obviously Geese came north on the wind, and at meeting students presented papers fo- interacting with professionals from the dusk the ducks quacked softly in the cusing on natural resources and range United States and the world increases low places that were all lakes now, and issues. the student’s confidence and ability to in the buffalo wallows. get a job.” Professionals from the United States “Early with the mornings the old men Department of Agriculture, Bureau The Agriculture and Range Manage- came out to sit beside the lodge doors of Land Management, and universi- ment program at Chadron State is the in the sun, hurrying, their wrinkled faces ties spoke on various subjects and second largest range program in the glad, as though they had never hoped more than 1,800 people attended from Great Plains Region and the fourth to feel this strength again. The women, China, Mexico, Canada, Africa, South largest in the United States. Students are too, stopped their complaining of the America and Australia. educated in domestic livestock, range long hungry winter, and of the empty management, soil and plant sciences, parfleches and the thin soup, and ran to Dr. Charles Butterfield, chair of the wildlife management, ecology, wildfire hang out the sleeping robes and those Department of Applied Sciences and suppression, and production processes from the floors. As they worked they associate professor of Agriculture and techniques among other topics. looked towards the marshy grounds and Range Management, said, Tak- along the creeks where young shoots The Esther & Raleigh Pilster Endow- ing students out of the classroom to a of the rushes would soon be starting, ment was created when Esther gave conference such as this increases their good to eat after a long winter of meat, land in western Nebraska to the Mari world view.” mostly dried. Sandoz Heritage Society in memory of “In addition to education, we want her husband, Raleigh, and his family “It was not that their men lay around them to understand they are part of a who homesteaded near Whitney. the villages but that there could not be larger profession, he said” hunting enough for the great camp held Through the endowment, Mrs. Pilster together against the fort on the Piney, It is also important that students recog- designated five programming areas and since the day that the soldiers were nize the highly competitive and global associated with the Mari Sandoz High killed the snow had been deep, the role of agriculture in the local, national, Plains Heritage Center to receive distri- winter the coldest the Old Ones had and world marketplaces. Because the butions including the funding of range ever known. expense of a professional conference management projects. b prevents most students from attending, Continued on next page The Story Catcher 6 Fall 2007 (continued) the tracks of a lone buffalo walking Passage from Crazy Horse in what seemed a sacred way on “Hunters came in with hands and although they were good hunters, as was the deep snow, the sharp hoofs not feet swollen from the freezing, telling common in the men of their family. breaking through the crust at all. The stories of the elk gone as from a dead “Crazy Horse had the heat of anger in brothers followed fast, their breath country and the buffaloes too, the few his heart for the long, cold rides. The making clouds around their shoulders who stayed behind standing frozen in death of his friend was still unavenged and frosting their woolen capotes, but the snow, hard as stone. There three and the whites on the Piney were very they found nothing except a few hairs hundred dead in one gulch, it was said, careful now. Then he heard that many hanging over the tracks in a patch of the storms blowing over them so they more soldiers were to come and so plum brush. would be lost even to the wolves until he moved the Long Face camp down the thaws of spring. “They were pale hairs, almost white, towards Fort Reno where he could and Crazy Horse looked at them a long “The people had scattered, but even watch the Powder River trail. time, his brother standing silent beside then it was hard to live. Some bands got “There was not much cottonwood there him. Then he put them away in the lost from the others, the starving ponies for the ponies in that country, and game medicine sack hanging around his neck. floundering in the drifts, the people was hard to find, but there should be Now they knew they would never find digging them out, helping them pull the good hunting along this road for one the buffalo they were following but travois. There was much snowblindness, who had lost a friend to the white man’s that it would be good anyway. So Little and, Creeping, the medicine man, cured guns. Hawk pushed hard on the tails of his so many that his women had trouble brother’s snowshoes, laughing into the finding enough young cottonwood to “When the meat in the camp was gone, cold wind that was curling up feathers feed his growing herd that was his pay. Crazy Horse and his brother went of snow from the edges of the drifts. Creeping had a very strong medicine... up towards the Crazy Woman Creek and they could see again. For this a together. Their horses played out, but “When the ice-pale sun had started horse was not too much. they had some snowshoes taken from downward they came to broken the Crows, so they went on afoot, country. In a little bluff-circled canyon “The sons of Worm were out every day, carrying a robe apiece, and little wasna, with a few bare trees Crazy Horse saw it seemed. Their mother made bunches and their knives and bows. The country something dark that seemed to be of buffalo-robe moccasins with the was white and bare; even the little moving. He dropped down and looked fur side in for the hunts and little sacks snowbirds that made the friendly winter a long time, then turned his face to his of soot grease for the cheek bones, so sounds were gone. brother. they were neither frozen or blinded. Still there was not always fresh meat, “Then one morning Crazy Horse saw “Elk!” he said.” b Mari Sandoz Heritage Society Membership Form Yes! I would like to support the work of the Mari Sandoz Heritage Society. I have enclosed $______. Your membership payment/gift is 100 percent tax deductible. We will provide a receipt for tax purposes. To join, mail this form with your check, payable to the Mari Sandoz Heritage Society, to Treasurer, Mari Sandoz Heritage Society, 1208 Laramie Avenue, Alliance, NE 69301. Type of Membership:  Renewal  New  Gift Membership  Company Matching Gift (form is enclosed) Please list my/our name(s) as: ______(list gift membership name here) ______Address City State Zip Code Telephone E-mail If Student, Name of Institution attending: ______Organization/Library/Corporation/School contact person: ______Name/Address for person giving gift membership: ______Date: ______Signature: ______Please check level of support.  $25 - Individual  $100 - Corporations/Schools  $10 - Student  $35 - Family/Library  $200-$10,000 - Patron Level

The Story Catcher 7 Fall 2007 2007 Mari Sandoz Mari Sandoz Heritage Society Non-Profit Org. Society Board Members 1208 Laramie Street US POSTAGE PAID Alliance, NE 69301. Permit No. 1359 OFFICERS: marisandoz_society@windstream. Lincoln, NE 68516 Lynn Roper, President, Lincoln www.marisandoz.org Brian Rockey, 1st Vice Pres., Lincoln Diana Hoffman, Secretary, Gordon Wally Seiler, Treasurer, Alliance David Sandoz, 2nd Vice Pres., Valentine Ron Hull, President Emeritus, Lincoln

BOARD MEMBERS: Celia Sandoz Ostrander Barth, Rushville Sybil Berndt, Chadron Holly Boomer, Rapid City, SD Matt Evertson, Chadron T.R. Hughes, Crawford Joel Hyer, Chadron Scott Kleeb, Hastings 2008 Mari Sandoz Heritage Society Conference March 27-29, 2008 Dan Kusak, Alliance James Locklear, Lincoln 2008 Sandoz Conference Explores Dan McGlynn, Omaha “The High Plains of Mari Sandoz” Nadine McHenry, Lincoln The theme of the 2008 Mari Sandoz Heritage Society Conference is “The Alfred ‘Bud’ Pagel, Lincoln High Plains of Mari Sandoz.” The conference will be held March 27-29 at the Paul Read, Lincoln Mari Sandoz High Plains Heritage Center at Chadron State College in Chadron Linda Ross, Buffalo, WY Nebraska. This conference is co-hosted by the Nebraska Statewide Arboretum. Shannon Smith, Gordon The program is still under development, but will include presentations on a high Phyllis Stone, Lincoln plains “sense of place,” the horticultural contributions of Jules Sandoz, the work Richard Voorhees, Bayport, MN of legendary South Dakota plantsman Claude Barr, the Nebraska viticulture Ron Weedon, Chadron industry, and other topics related to the environment and horticulture of the high plains. John Wunder, Lincoln As an added bonus, the work of acclaimed Nebraska landscape painter Keith EX-OFFICIO: Jacobshagen and artist and instructor Robin Smith will be on display at the Mari Jeanne Bishop, Director of Sandoz Center on campus during the conference. The exhibition, Journal of the Development, Lincoln Days: Jacobshagen Notebooks Tour Nebraska’s Arboreta, is comprised of images Cindy Evert Christ, Newsletter Editor, of sketches and journal entries from Jacobshagen’s field notebooks—on-site Communication Coordinator, Lincoln studies of the land and sky to which he later refers as he composes paintings in the studio. Beth Ann Lee, Executor, Mari Sandoz Family Literary, Central City The uniqueness of this joint conference that highlights plants and environmental Sen. LeRoy Louden, State Senator, issues related to Mari Sandoz’s works is expected to attract a large attendance. District #49, Ellsworth Mark your calendar now for this upcoming event and you may want to book Lucinda Mays, 2008 Program your favorite hotel in advance. View lodging options on the Chadron Chamber Coordinator, Chadron of Commerce Web site: http://www.chadron.com under Community: Business Janie Park, President, Chadron State Directory: Lodging. College, Chadron Watch for details in the January issue of the Story Catcher. For more information Sarah Polak, Director, Mari Sandoz or to request registration information, call the Mari Sandoz Heritage Center at High Plains Heritage Center, Chadron 308-432-6401. b The Story Catcher 8 Fall 2007