ALUMNI BULLETIN Official Publication Number 071600 ® July 1998
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ALUMNI BULLETIN Official Publication Number 071600 ® July 1998 This publication of the ALUMNI BULLETIN gratefully acknowledges all the faithful alumni, friends and Inside businesses who have Alumni Board Meets contributed to Valley City State Fieldhouse Gets New Floor VCSU Foundation News University over the course of Scholarship Benefactors Homecoming Announcements the past year. Our loyal Retired Faculty & Staff Gather Vikings on the Move supporters have funded In Remembrance scholarships and made many Letterwinners Club exciting projects possible. It is Friends of Music Friends of the Library with sincere gratitude that we Friends of the Planetarium Framing Project publish the names of the many Fieldhouse Sign Viking Scramble devoted Friends of Valley City Auction Contributors Century Club State University. V-500 VCSU President Ellen Chaffee Phone-A-Thon In addition to the financial congratulates Gary Tharaldson 67 on Campus Tree Project being named the 47th recipient of the contributions, thank you to our Distinguished Alumnus Award. Gary was honored during commencement exercises Toll Free alumni who have encouraged at VCSU on May 9, 1998. 800-532-8641, Ext. 37203 potential students to consider Val Moritz 701-845-7403 Valley City State University. Kleda Kuehne Your endorsements and recommendations have a great impact 701-845-7203 on enrollment. As we enter our third year as a notebook Larry Robinson 701-845-7217 university, we continue to be a leader in our state and across E-Mail the nation. [email protected] Welcome to the 1998 graduates of Valley City State [email protected] [email protected] University into membership of the VCSU Alumni Association. VCSU Home Page Good luck with your career endeavors! http://www.vcsu.nodak.edu Page 2, Alumni Bulletin President’s Corner by Maureen Woodbury ’80 It has been an honor to serve as your VCSU Alumni Board President this past year. I pass the gavel on to Gene Boyle for 98-99. As a board, we have faced many challenges. Everyone at your alma mater seems very enthusiastic and optimistic about the future of VCSU. The university has made great strides in pioneering education throughout the region and I daresay the country! The staff at the Foundation office and the VCSU administration are working feverishly spreading the good news about Valley City State. I ask that you, as alumni, help do the same. There are so many success stories at VCSU. We need your unified voices as alumni to sing the priases of your alma mater especially to potential students and parents. Stay in touch with the Foundation office. Ask what you can do to help. And dont forget, you have a voice. We are interested in what you have to say. The annual meeting of the VCSU Alumni Association was conducted by the board of directors on June 16, 1998. VCSU alumni serving on the board of directors are: (left to right) Terry Kemmer 68; Terry Dunphy 68; David Hanson 83; Maureen Coghlan Woodbury 80; Wade Faul 69; David Bass 76; Joan Lundholm Noeske 62; Gayle Maureen Coghlan Klinkhammer Nelson 83; Susan Holmes German 73; Lorraine Timm Lutjens 70; and Keith Keidel 58. Other board members not Woodbury 80 turns present for the photo are: Adam Boschee 68; Virginia Mosher over the presidency of Homan 43; Bob King 55; Kathy Ringdahl 93; Leo Ringey 73; the VCSU Alumni and Dennis White 74. Association Board of Directors to Gene VALLEY CITY STATE UNIVERSITY Boyle 69. In addition ALUMNI ASSOCIATION to Boyle, officers OFFICERS & DIRECTORS include: Susan German OFFICERS 73, 1st Vice President; President Gene Boyle 69 - Moorhead, MN First Vice President Susan German 73 - Ludden, ND Terry Dunphy 68, 2nd Second Vice President Terry Dunphy 68 - Grand Forks, ND Vice President, and Joan Noeske 62, Treasurer. Maureen Treasurer Joan Noeske 62 - Oriska, ND Immediate Past President Maureen Woodbury 80 - Fargo, ND will remain on the board as immediate past president. DIRECTORS Serving to 1999: Adam Boschee 68 Kindred, ND Virginia Homan 43 LaMoure, ND Keith Keidel 58 Mandan, ND Leo Ringey 73 Fargo, ND Serving to 2000: VCSU Fieldhouse To Get New Floor David Bass 76 Valley City, ND David Hanson 83 Wyndmere, ND The W.E. Osmon Building for Physical Education on the campus of Valley City State Lorraine Lutjens 70 Bismarck, ND University, commonly known as the bubble will soon have a new floor in the arena. Gayle Nelson 83 Jamestown, ND The present tartan surface, which was installed nearly 30 years ago has outlived its Serving to 2001: usefulness. According to Don Bauer, VCSUs Athletic Director, the present floor has Wade Faul 69 Cooperstown, ND become a liability hazard, and is clearly beyond its life expectancy. Terry Kemmer 68 Mayville, ND The new floor was made possible by an aggressive effort on the part of university Kathy Ringdahl 93 Wahpeton, ND personnel over the past 24 month time period. After months of planning, the university Dennis White 74 Valley City, ND VCSU Foundation Representatives was successful late last fall in obtaining $85,000 from the North Dakota State Board of Janet E. Schultz 66 Valley City, ND Higher Education. Although the dollars from the Board of Higher Education provided Bob King 55 Valley City, ND the initial seed money for the new floor, the university needed an additional $100,000 to complete the project which is expected to cost in excess of $180,000. EX-OFFICIO MEMBERS The $100,000 needed to complete the financial package came from a number of local President of Valley City State University and area businesses: Concrete Dakota, Coca Cola Bottling Co., Lafarge Dakota, Newman President of the Student Senate Signs, Norwest Bank, Tharaldson Enterprises, Valley Sales, Kadrmas, Lee & Jackson, AgAir, and Foss Associates Architects. The Alumni Bulletin is published in Spring, Summer, and Work on the project is already underway. Terry Gilbertson Construction, Valley City, Fall by Valley City State University Alumni Association, Valley City, ND. Postage paid at Valley City and additional was awarded the general contractor bid. The new wood floor is being installed by Ander- mailing offices. Postmaster: Send address changes to Alumni son Ladd, Minneapolis, and is expected to be completed by early August. Bulletin, 101 College St. SW, Valley City, ND 58072. Page 3, Alumni Bulletin VCSU FOUNDATION . Larry Robinson, Executive Director Memorial Gifts...A Gift That Keeps On Giving All of us have special people who had, and university. A $10,000 gift would provide the university Financial Aid Office, on an continue to have, a significant impact on our either two scholarships up to $500 each or a annual basis publishes a booklet which lives. These individuals include our parents, scholarship up to $1,000. In either case, as includes a listing of all memorial grandparents, brothers, sisters, and other the donor, you have the opportunity to decide scholarships. The listing includes the members of our family. The list also often the amount of the gift and the scholarship. In descriptive information about each includes teachers, coaches, and others who addition, we will work with you to draft a scholarship, criteria for the scholarship, and were positioned to influence our lives forever. statement of intent which outlines the use of information about the individual Many of us often wonder how we might do the scholarship and recognizes in a memorializes. Without a doubt, the endowed something special for these individuals to meaningful way that special person you wish memorial scholarship is an excellent way to memorialize their name forever. One to memorialize. provide for a lasting memory of someone suggestion is to consider an endowed The examples above are intended to give special in your life. It also becomes a gift that memorial scholarship. Such a scholarship is you an idea on the many options available. keeps on giving...today, tomorrow, and an outstanding way to provide a lasting The gift would be endowed and only the forever. memory for that special person in your life interest earnings would be used for the If you are interested in establishing a with a gift that keeps on giving. scholarship. The principal would be in place memorial scholarship for someone special in This office has had the opportunity to work forever. It is also possible to structure the gift your life, please contact the VCSU with several individuals over the past year so each year, in addition to the scholarship Foundation at 1-800-532-8641 Ext. 37203. who have established endowed memorial allocation, the principal would experience We would be happy to work with you to scholarships. The actual amount of the gift some growth and allow for modest increases establish such a scholarship or to discuss can vary, depending on the size of the in the scholarship allocation in future years other planned giving opportunities with you. scholarship you wish to establish. For to keep up with inflation and the rising costs example, a $5,000 gift will provide an annual of education. scholarship of up to $500 for a student at the The Foundation office, in cooperation with Scholarship Benefactors American Legion Edgar A. Fischer Post #60 Scholarship Gretchen Winn Karnick Alumni Scholarship Diana Skroch Outstanding Pianist Scholarship Fannie C. Amidon Music Scholarship Dr. Wilbur Keeling Memorial Social Science Scholar- Jake P. & Helen M. Smith Memorial Scholarship Dr. Milton Berg Memorial Science Scholarship ship Mabel Snoeyenbos Scholarship Janet M. Berge Memorial Scholarship Dr. John F. Keller Scholarship Cecilia Soroos Hankinson High School Scholarship Beta Sigma Phi Society Scholarship Dr. S.O. Kolstoe Scholarship Soroos Scholarship Fund Borchert Memorial Scholarship Library Media Scholarship Anna B. Spangler Memorial Scholarship Grace Ellis Bowen Scholarship President Lokken Memorial Scholarship Speech Scholarship Business Education Scholarship Hazel McBride Scholarship Mary Stark Memorial Scholarship Esther Cannell Memorial Scholarship Grace & Dr.