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Greetings to our over 11,000 alumni and Dakota State is anticipating friends who are receiving this magazine! I am three major construction projects proud to be sharing the stories inside, including on campus; renovation to the Trojan an introduction to the newly appointed 23rd Center; renovation of the Madison journeyPresident from of Dakota the United State, Kingdom Dr. Jose-Marie to Madison, Hospital building; and the new SD.Griffiths. I know you will enjoy reading about her Beacom Institute of Technology. All three projects are slated to begin next spring, with completion in early 2017. When I graduated from Dakota State College in 1978, we were mainly focused on educating 1996The when Trojan the bookstoreCenter has was not moved teachers. The multitude of education alumni we undergone a major remodel since profession,have in school is a systems testament in administrativeto the solid foundation roles and those recognized for their service to their from the lower level to the first floor, degree, and prouder still of my daughter who also graduated here with a degree and the kitchen and dining areas they received as students here. I am a proud graduate of DSC with an education were redone. The new Trojan Center will include spaces for collaborative in elementary education. One of my goals as President of the Alumni Association study, an expanded kitchen/dining is to reach out to our education graduates and remind them of the strong and amenities that will make it more tradition they represent as teachers. area, a more accessible bookstore I serve alongside the Alumni Association Vice President Elliott Breukelman, who graduated in 2013 with an undergraduate degree in information systems, attractive for student, faculty and staff, and in 2014 with a masters in the same field. Elliott represents the type of and the visiting public. graduates we have been producing since our mission change in 1984. We still The hospital property is being graduate a large and strong class of teachers each year, but we also have many acquired as the Madison Regional graduates who leave DSU with degrees in cyber security or other information Health System has moved to their new technology areas. These grads are leading the way in the fight against cyber terrorism, protecting your financial assets, managing data, and taking health care facility on the south edge of town. DSU records into the digital age. The value of my degree continues to grow with each is working with architects to turn the volunteersyear, as DSU who gains represent national graduation recognition years for our ranging programs. from 1956 to 2014, and old hospital into residence halls, which As President of the Alumni Association, I also work with a board of dedicated will include spaces for students to live, study, and socialize. The building will majors ranging from education to technology to business. There is room at the also house services vital to student table for more members, and I would encourage you to consider joining the life, including the counseling office, board. Contact the Director of Alumni, Jona Schmidt, [email protected] if and diversity services. you are interested. The main activity of the board is to act as ambassadors for our alma mater. We work to encourage alumni to attend events both on campus, and The Beacom Institute of when we take our message on the road. We are DSU’s most ardent cheerleaders. Technology will be a campus hundredsI have of set alumni goals forattending my first the year parade, as Alumni tailgate, Association and football President, game. Youand will they all showpiece, and will be the first revolve around reconnecting with alumni. We had a successful homecoming, with new academic building on campus since 1987. Included in the plans see the association at various businesses this year. You will also see us making are classrooms, meeting spaces, and a concerted effort to visit our teaching alumni in their schools and after hours. laboratories. The major focus of the We want to celebrate our alumni, hear your stories, and share the DSU story. 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grandparents also persevered through Though she is far from her hardship,On her putting mother’s their side, lives Griffiths’ on the he signed up in London, he was Ph.D.birthplace has found in England, her way it’s to not DSU as our skills,assigned he wasto a Britishassigned army to be unit, the asunit’s the surprising that José-Marie Griffiths, the Netherlands, in Nijmegen, only 10 only Welshman. Because of his math pioneer her whole life, forging new milesline for from others. Germany. The family As World lived War in went ahead of the unit, into enemy frontiersnext president. personally Griffiths and professionally,has been a territory,artillery spotter found a – high the individual vantage point, who grandfather into labor in Germany. II began, the Nazis forced Griffiths’ organizationally, academically and hisand own assessed unit, beforethe Nazi’s and weapons during the and intellectually. He feigned a back injury and was ensuingpositions. battle, He then how radioed and at what back angleto withHer lead-the-way DSU’s mission spirit to be and at thelove leading of sent back home to Holland, where he expanding boundaries is a perfect fit beingjoined shipped the Dutch to Resistance,Germany through dropping care packages to the prisoners to place and fire their weapons to use students.edge of technology use in a broad population suffered more horribly them to the greatest effect. His math range of career opportunities for DSU the Netherlands. The Dutch Jewish skills were necessary to calculate Early Years landingmentally points and quickly and give anticipated the unit than in any other European country, angles, trajectories, force and ultimate with more than 75% of Dutch Jews Griffiths comes by her pioneering exterminated by the Nazi regime. instructions as to where to move their approach to life no doubt from Griffiths’ family (Catholics in the throughguns to improve the entire their war impact ahead whileof the the example of her parents and predominantly Protestant country) avoiding the Nazi onslaught. He went Walesgrandparents. and the Netherlands,The family came ending was horrified , and personally housed together from homelands of Ireland, a Jewish mother and child to try to front lines for every one of Bernard movedkeep them the frompair from being one killed. of their To avoid Montgomery’s campaigns, repeatedly up in England, where Griffiths grew detection, every second day the family thecrisscrossing Western and an areaEastern about deserts 2,000 of miles up. On her father’s side Griffiths’ long and 1,500 miles wide, including grandparents were an unusual mixed homes to the cellar of another member faith couple: her grandfather’s family of the extended family. Sadly, the Nazis North Africa, Sicily, D-Day landings in were Welsh “strict chapel” Protestant eventually discovered the mother jobFrance, during Belgium the War , and impressed the Netherlands. on her and well-to-do, her grandmother’s and child and they and Griffiths’ theFor powerGriffiths, and her responsibility father’s dangerous of leading family was Irish Catholic and of great-uncle were imprisoned. The by being out in front, whatever your humble means. They had 6 children again.great-uncle retuned after the war; the before Griffiths’ grandfather died mother and child were never heard of of his World War I wounds when parents were importantposition in value the organization. that real leadership She Griffiths’ father was only 4 years old. teenagersGriffiths’ in this also saw in her family’s choices the The grandfather, a mine engineer, environment, left a strong directive that all of his and both their interestsis servant and leadership, rights of and others. it requires children, the girls as well as the boys, lives were taking personal risks to protect the be educated into professions. The profoundly years to the War. With her father, (plusgrandmother a 7th she saw took to in it fromthat it another came Griffiths’ mother lost her teenage family)true, as byshe herself raised in all a 6 small children Welsh mining town in a tiny house with no father,impacted born by the (Griffiths’ grandfather) active in the andWar. raised Griffiths’ in Dutch Resistance, and her mother her grandmother’s life sent her the Wales, had just (Griffiths grandmother) tied up at steady source of income. Griffiths says home taking care of her younger siblings, Griffiths’ mother gave up strong message of the importance of Warstarted broke college out. in her college ambitions (she wanted to alsoeducation, saw in and her doinggrandmother what you a stronghave to London when the be a history teacher) to work in the womando to accomplish who persevered important through goals. She 19 years old) to office of a soap factory to support the He left college (at family. Her brown hair and brown enlist Griffiths’ father as a member of the British eyes, in a family and a country of ofsignificant what you life have, challenges, no matter impressing how little. forces during blue-eyed blonds, put her in constant on Griffiths the need to make the most in the British World War II. fear of being mis-identified as a Jew 4 Army. Because and carted off by the Nazis she had to pass every day on her way to school FOCUS
or work. Eventually things became so Griffiths grew up in a family dangerous in their hometown, so close of limited financial means but all- to Germany, that Griffiths’ grandfather encompassing commitment to Dr. Griffiths’ moved his family to stay with extended education. As a child, she came across college family in the countryside. Griffiths’ a biography of Marie Curie. Griffiths graduation photograph father’s unit came to the Netherlands was inspired by Curie, not only by as part of the joint British/U.S. determinationher educational to and do intellectualand be what timecampaign stayed (Operation in their empty Marketgarden) home. achievements, but also by her dogged to free the country, and for a short orshe barriers felt she putcould in andher wayshould. by those Curie With the British and the Americans refused to be stopped by the prejudices now holding Nijmegen, Griffiths’ grandfather collected the family from who felt that women could not be the country and snuck them back home scientists, or that foreigners should not in a cart under straw, where they met beingbe welcomed an outsider. in a country’sGrowing upresearch in a Griffiths’ father. Griffiths’ father left institutes. Griffiths identified with shortly to continue to fight in the war, else is watching or is in a position to but not before he and Griffiths’ mother multicultural, multilingual background thatensure environment that a bad choicealso taught results me in that a had become acquainted and at least as an immigrant family in London – her negative consequence. Competing in committed to being pen pals. They thefather integration Welsh, her of mother,groups ofDutch people, – she continued their constantly faced issues of integration: rules and policies have to be clear and correspondence different values. She grew up speaking actionable – people have to have a through Griffiths’ different perspectives, different norms, shared understanding of requirements father’s continued Onbefore to theyUniversity can fully participate.” fighting in the multiple languages, English at school war, including the and in public and Dutch at home, and Battle of the Bulge toalso view became situations, fluent mostin French. having She value. saw Following the British equivalent whenand the the Battle war wasof Shefirsthand learned that that there it is were important various to ways ask of high school, Griffiths attended over,Luxembourg, for a time and University College London (UCL). being stationed andHer firstadministrative year, due to rules, an unfortunate she did not good questions and listen carefully combination of her circumstances Germany. When to both the facts and diverse peoples’ in Berlin, interpretations and conclusions based receive any financial assistance for on those facts. her schooling. Barely scraping by that (counterclockwise) Dr. fromhe was the finally army Sports were a big part of Griffiths shefirst would year (she make could last affordas her onlydinners), one Griffiths mother, Maria demobilized growing up and her college career, as loaf of brown bread a week, which (Riet) Griffiths, her she competitively played netball (a oldest brother, Richard, returnedof occupation, to relative of basketball), tennis and field Griffiths says, “forever sensitized me Dr. Griffiths, and her Griffiths’ father rarelyhockey. any Interestingly, formal referees even or in umpires. college to cost/benefit analysis and return-on- younger sister, Joyce. Her competitions in the U.K. there were investment! If I hadn’t been convinced younger brother, John, London to finish that getting an education was essential came along a few years Following policies and rules was a to my future, I never would have made later. thehis teachingrelationship strongly insisted diploma. By then uponrequirement by ones of own participation, and as it through. And I definitely understand father and mother had grown into team members as “Participating in sports in the U.K. ingrained love, and they marriedbetween and settled Griffiths’ in the opposing team. in me that integrity is an individual commitment to doing the right thing.” of fair play was London, staying in England to raise stronglyThis concept instilled andGriffiths’ highly brothers serendipitous (2) and meeting sister. To Griffiths, her parents’ unlikely in sports in the U.K. ingrained in meinto that Griffiths. integrity She is said, an individual “Participating first-hand the financial and life ways,demonstrated and that thatwhile life-changing one’s life path sacrifices many students have to make mightopportunities seem random, can come hindsight in unexpected will to get a college education.” commitment to doing the right thing. Griffiths chose Physics as her and purposeful trail. beMy right, best contributionwhether or not to thesomeone team major, partly because of Marie Curie’s often connect the dots to show a clear will come when I do what I know to inspiration and partly because it was known to be a difficult field and she 5 A Pioneer Comes to Dakota State (cont.)
her graduate work she moved into relished the academic challenge. For to come for a year’s appointment. Research, Griffiths led projects It was a big step for Griffiths. Not systems,focused on primarily research for in federal information and Information Technology, Computer only was California 5,000 miles sciences and developing information Science and Information Science, from London, she was still at the again at UCL. These fields were in beginning of her career with limited state government agencies, along newtheir frontiers, infancy at by that applying time, and the she finances. Her pioneering spirit took with quite a few international saw an opportunity for exploring over, and she accepted. As she has development-related projects. By study to the new work being done said, “I landed in the United States design, King Research remained disciplines of scientific research and with two things of value: $100 in my relatively small. However, over a givenpocket me and a lifetimean education. of opportunities The $100 numberfew years of Griffiths, groundbreaking King and studies their in these fields. She was intrigued was soon gone; the education has colleagues generated an impressive by the potential application of technology to transform and and experiences.” This may well be ofand those publications at the forefront that garnered of using advance scientific endeavors. She why Griffiths has stayed involved attention across a wide spectrum takingwas especially advantage fascinated of new tools by the and committed to advancing interdisciplinary integrative work colleges and universities throughout wereinformation soon making technology presentations to turn her entire career, even through information into knowledge. They (technology) and its potentially her 10-plus years working in the world on how to deal with what transformative impact in refining corporate sector. and leading projects around the thisand newcreating frontier knowledge. of information Griffiths work at Berkeley Griffiths began trailblazing in quickly pulled her into the growing is now called “big data,” and the Information Sciences/Information challenges that soon grew into the technology and information science, Technology community in the U.S., fields of computational science and first in health care, while still and before her first year was done analytics. completing her graduate work. she had been recruited to work at Fewer than 10 years after She worked first at organizing foundedKing Research, by the Inc..person King who Research would arriving in the U.S., Griffiths was and analyzing electronic medical was a commercial research firm invited by the U.S. Oak Ridge records at The Hospitals Computer her husband, National Laboratory (ORNL) to be Center for South-East England Donaldeventually W. King.become their first Collaborating Scientist in London, and then founded a in Information Science. Not only research computing laboratory for was one of the was Griffiths thrown into the new the Imperial Cancer Research Fund foundersKing, a statistician, of Westat, frontier of figuring out how to Laboratories (now Cancer U.K.), integrate new technologies into also in England. She continued scientific research, she was also teaching at UCL and also taught at a world-renowned coming in as a woman in the almost the Queen’s University Belfast, in statistical overwhelmingly male-dominated Northern Ireland. She was traveling survey research Griffiths Husband, worlddealing of energy with being and physicsan outsider back and forth between London corporation Donald King —research. speaking As ashe different says, “I language grew up and Belfast during some of the most which provides violent times between the Irish theresearch U.S. Government, services as well as our family didn’t have the money to Republican Army (IRA) and the businesses,to agencies offoundations, and state at home, standing out because British Army; it was not unusual bombs.to see armed British soldiers at buy my official school uniform. So roadblocks searching vehicles for and local governments. Westat I learned early on how to get past The Move to America iswas, over and half is today,a billion a very dollars) successful and the discomfort, for myself as well as When the University of fromcompany small (present beginnings annual grew revenue rapidly. others, of my differences, to focus on what I could contribute to the doing interesting work than he was success of those around me as well California, Berkeley went looking King was happier being a statistician as for our shared organization. She for an Information Science visiting makecontinued, me just “I like more to determinedmake things professor, they contacted UCL, a managing the exponential growth happen, and obstacles seem to known leader in the field at that of a company, so he left Westat to 6time, and shortly recruited Griffiths form his own company. At King to get things done. I also learned FOCUS early on that in any situation there and most often more than one way Internet development organizations. on General Fund for IT services, an may be many different perspectives Griffiths was also responsible for increase in what we could provide to coordinating and facilitating the students, faculty and staff, and overall to reach a goal. Other paths might growing assortment of decentralized a significant improvement in campus not necessarily be the one I would information technology equipment, satisfaction with what was happening ischoose, important but they to look come beyond with aany strong one services and organizations that were in IT.” possibility of success nonetheless. It springing up all across campus with informedGriffiths and experiences engaged leadership at U-M in trainedthe advent ability of personal to hone incomputers on different and convinced her of the importance of decision or achievement to see how it local area networks. Once again, her the academic side of a university. From boundariesfits into a larger and gettingplan or myself,will result other in After working at four large, public research universities, greater good long-term. I like pushing perspectives and concerns and I became convinced that it is the smaller institutions that evenpeople, imagined and organizations, as possible untilto new we come up with have the best opportunity to be the most innovative and organizational places, often places none of us had and systems agile in responding to the considerable challenges facing thatstructures worked joined together and started advancing U.S. higher education today. wasin the shared same withdirection.” the University of environments Griffiths’ position at ORNL across diverse
Tennessee, Knoxville, and over a few and cultures Pittsburgh and then to the University years Griffiths moved from being a stood her in good stead. Her U-M, Griffiths went to the University of professor in the School of Information ongoing career as a professor and Sciences to Director of the School to researcher helped her to identify of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel the Vice Chancellor for Computing with the academic- and research- Hill, as a faculty member, research and Telecommunications/Information focused perspectives of the schools, institute director and Dean. After 6 Infrastructure. While at Tennessee, colleges and research institutes; years at UNC, she advanced to Bryant Griffiths’ pioneering spirit led her into her technology/information science University “After inworking Rhode atIsland, four large,as Vice exploring how to leverage university expertise helped her to hear the President for Academic Affairs resources while simultaneously helpedconcerns her of to the develop, technical implement staffs; and her meeting needs in the local, state and “get it done” administrative approach itpublic is the research smaller universities,”institutions that Griffiths have developingregional communities. a regional network Her success and thecommented, best opportunity “I became to convincedbe the most that enjoyment of these activities, including differentand fine-tune people solutions and groups on a torapid the table innovative and agile in responding timetable. “At U-M we brought many (KORRNet) and expanding access to Oak Ridge’s supercomputer as well as and together developed a ‘Federation’ to the considerable challenges facing linking other area computer resources model for IT services and resources on U.S. higher education today. My move and users, has become a strong theme campus,” reported Griffiths. “Ensuring anto Bryantopportunity University to work was at a acarefully high inPioneering her career. Positions resultedthat everyone’s in a model voice different was heard from and that considered decision. I wanted proposals addressed their concerns administrative level where I would From UT-Knoxville Griffiths many imagined initially. But the end have university-wide responsibilities, headed to the University of Michigan result was a decrease in dependence and the opportunity to make systemic in Ann Arbor, to become the first changes that would have impact, University Chief Information quickly.” At Bryant, Griffiths, working Officer (CIO). As CIO she extensively with faculty and staff, also served as Executive designed and launched a long list Director of the Information of endeavors. These included a Technology Division redesign of the general education (ITD), the centralized IT curriculum, strengthening a major/ organization of about minor structure that encouraged 1,800 staff and a significant students to create multi-disciplinary collection of computing programs, a test-optional admissions and telecommunications policy, an award-winning First-Year equipment. In addition, Dr. Griffiths testifying to Congress as a member Gateway program, including the ITD was the home of Merit of the National Science Board Bryant IDEA experience, the creation Networking, Inc., and of a college of health sciences and NSFNET, one of the first a much-needed program for Rhode 7 A Pioneer Comes to Dakota State (cont.)
Island to train physician assistants, landscape of higher education. She and other candidates for an interview, and the development and launch of nearDon bothDon’s had roots a desire in Wyoming to move and back to immediatelydiscovering for felt herself at home what in Madison, she calls a halfcomprehensive million dollar Advanced gift from Applied a the middle of the country, somewhere “the jewel that is DSU.” She and Don Analytics Center (Griffiths obtained along with many new undergraduate Iowa, where they could plan to settle. theloving trip the for size her and was spirit “one surpriseof the town after corporation to fund the first two years) And Griffiths, with all her work in as well as the campus. Griffiths said information technology, information DSU, met the other administrators and majors, the first undergraduate science, analytics and informatics, another” as she learned more about enrollment,Analytics concentration, the number ofand minority four new wanted to find an institution masters degree programs. Retention, that would be enthusiastic about many faculty, staff, and community and funding from both grants and integrating technology on an ongoing leaders. She quickly found herself and international faculty and students, basis into every aspect of university becoming more interested and excited the national ratings and rankings of Enteractivities. Dakota State University atabout the time.the Dakota State presidency than philanthropy all increased, as well as any other options she was considering to be aware that DSU LookingBryant University. for New Roles was Donlooking was for the a first Over the years she took on more and more leadership roles in national had been keeping an eyepresident, on Plains since States’ he three presidential appointments, policy-making bodies, including wasschools not forat all possible interested most recently to the National Science initially.opportunities. Sadly, sheGriffiths had Board, the governing board for the never heard of DSU, and National Science Foundation and science and technology policy advisors she asked about it to the President and the Congress. many of the colleagues Meanwhile, various executive search a university they knew firms approached Griffiths to consider anythingconfessed about, it was either. a not applying to become a university Don kept pushing, so wherepresident. she wasShe andproceeded she and slowly Don were Dakota State felt the same about with the idea; she was definitely busy Griffiths started reading through the closer geographically to more of their presidential search materials. She Griffiths. 6 daughters and 15 grandchildren says, “The more I read, and the more beforeThe she initial was timingtaking wasoff for tight. Europe timeon the to east make coast. a move. However, She began over I learned about DSU, the more I kept forGriffiths a family was gathering offered the in honorposition of just tentativelytime she decided responding that it when might asked be asking, why haven’t I heard of this to apply. Going through interviews at place? They sound like the MIT of the Plains States. They have programs her mother’s 90th birthday. The her and Don’s thoughts as to what at the leading edge of IT, have an IT- Regents did not want to wait till after various institutions helped crystalize been.infused Yet curriculum when we were— everything developing her two-week-plus trip to make the I’ve been promoting everywhere I’ve announcement of her acceptance. awould presidential provide level enough of responsibility. incentive to Griffiths spent a whirlwind weekend relocate and for Griffiths to take on Bryant’s analytics programs and did of informing family, friends, colleague what we thought was a comprehensive and Bryant of her decision; changing interestedConsideration in providing of some largerleadership schools at inventory of other colleges and plane flight reservations; and convinced her that she was still more programsuniversities and with degrees, information DSU never sciences/ even unpacking and re-packing her suitcase information technology-driven to accommodate an additional day trip a smaller school. Ideally she wanted Stateto Sioux University. Falls and Madison for a formal fora place students big enough but small to be enough sustainable that showed up.” acceptance of the Presidency of Dakota and provide a broad set of experiences president’sGriffiths position. decided Soonshe needed she was to check out DSU, and so applied for the has beenSince full arriving of meetings in Madison with full-DSU it could move nimbly in response to time as of July, Griffiths’ schedule opportunities8 and the quickly changing in Madison and on campus with the FOCUS
otheradministrators, South Dakota faculty, system staff presidents and institutioncity of Madison. and have DSU demonstrated has an amazing alumni, as well as connecting with the collection of people who believe in the transition plan to ensure that she and the Regents. She developed a resilience and perseverance through andchallenging retention circumstances. numbers, all showing The ‘covers all the bases’ as she moves into recently released 2015 fall enrollment staffthe DSU her presidency,planning model and hasfor aalready DSU great work that DSU people have shared with all of DSU’s faculty and impressive increases, speak to the last few years of a lot of transitions. “ Master Plan that will encompass the continued to do, especially through the already-developed Strategic Plan, as to be on board to join with the DSU well as a Master Academic Program Griffiths continued, “I am excited (shePlan, says, and a“two Technology months Plan.is about After the initially focusing on becoming oriented community to continue to move the has now begun to move forward jeweluniversity and moretoward people fulfilling need its to mission, know max that I can just observe’), Griffiths consistent with its values. DSU is a nationally and internationally. masterwith multiple planning, projects, fundraising, especially in about it. I see important parts of DSU’s her “spotlight priorities” of strategic future as working to figure out what is Sounds like the pioneer who’s Together, we can make that happen.” the right size for the institution, finding branding/positioning and marketing, ways to further infuse technology every DSU graduate is at the forefront come to DSU is still looking to new facilities, and enrollment. through all of our curricula so that frontiers. She’s come to the right place. “I continue to be so impressed Welcome to Dakota State University, supporterswith so many and of friends DSU faculty of DSU, and and staff, the of technology use in their discipline, President Griffiths. the larger community of alumni, other and expanding DSU’s impact and contributions locally, regionally,
1883 - 1887 Professor Charles S. Richardson: President 1887 - 1889 William F. Gorrie: President 1889 - 1905 General William Henry Harrison Beadle: President Presidents 1901 - 1902 Professor William W. Girton: Acting President 1905 - 1920 John W. Heston: President Feb.- July 1920 Bela Malcom Lawrence: Acting President of 1920 - 1931 Edgar Creighton Higbie: President 1931 - 1933 E. A. Bixler: Acting President 1933 - 1962 Vayne Arnold Lowry: President 1962 -1967 Dr. Laurence Samuel Flaum: President Dakota 1967 - 1971 Dr. Harry Pitkin Bowes: President 1972 - 1972 Dr. Allen R. Millar: Acting President 1972 - 1974 Dr. Francis Gordon Foster: President State 1974 - 1976 Dr. Richard Bowen: President 1976 - 1977 Dr. Robert H. DeZonia: Acting President Dr. Carrol Krause: Provost University 1977 - 1978 Dr. Charles Lein: President 1978 - 1983 Dr. Carleton M. Opgaard: President 1983 - 1984 Charles Luke: President 1984 - 1987 Dr. Richard J. Gowen: President 1987 - 2004 Dr. Jerald A. Tunheim: President 2004 - 2012 Dr. Douglas D. Knowlton: President 2012 -2014 Dr. David B. Borofsky: President 2014-2015 Dr. Maryz Rames, Interim President 2015 - Present Dr. José Marie-Griffiths, President 9 @ DAKOTA STATE
General Beadle Honors Living and Learning Program Launched
areasA ofnew student living life. and learning community is taking the idea of honors courses and infusing it into all
The General Beadle Honors Program allows students to take many of their general education courses in limited-enrollment, honors-only classes that move beyond a traditional lecture class. Students and professors focus on creating a dialogue and discussion on the topics both inside and outside the classroom setting. Students are able to work with honors faculty one-on-one and go on exclusive learning experiences with their General Beadle Honors peers and professors. Honors Program students can also engage in living in the honors residence hall with other’s from their cohort. This helps create a stable community where students can live with others who share the fromsame additionalacademic driveadvising and from interest. the honors General Beadle Honors students also benefit Members of the General Beadle Honors Society gather for a photo on campus. program director and meeting with honors faculty throughout the year, allowing for greater connections and mentoring opportunities.
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Dakota State University Hosts General Beadle Honors Living and Learning Program Launched U.S. Senate Cyber Security Field Hearing
U.S. Senator John Thune (R-S.D.), chairman of the Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee, convened University. and chaired a full committee field hearing titled “Confronting the Challenge of Cyber Security” on September 3, at Dakota State
Dakota State University’s Cyber Operations Program is nationally recognized by the National “As our nation continues to confront and guard against dangers in Security Agency and the Department of Homeland cyberspace, experts in South Dakota have experience and insight to inform Security as a National Center of Academic federal policymaking,” said Thune. “Bringing a Senate hearing to Dakota Excellence, holding education, research and State offers federal government cyber security policymakers an opportunity cyber operations designations. It is one of the to listen to these cyber experts and better understand the challenge of our nation. first universities in the country to hold all three protecting individuals, businesses, and critical infrastructure throughout prestigious designations. Approximately 20 ” percent of students at DSU are involved in cyber security programs. Hearing witnesses included: from DSU, Dr. Josh Pauli, Professor of Cyber Security and NSF SFS Cyber Corps Program Director and Dr. Kevin Streff, Department Chair, Cyber Operations and Security, and Founder and Managing Partner, Secure Banking Solutions, LLC. Others were: Mark Shlanta, CEO, SDN Communications; Eric Pulse, Director of Risk Advisory Services, Eide Bailly; Jeremy Epstein, Lead Program Director, Secure and Trustworthy Cyberspace (SaTC) Members of the General Beadle Honors Society gather for a photo on campus. program, National Science Foundation (NSF); and Kevin Stine, Manager, Security Outreach and Integration Group, Information Technology Laboratory, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). Over 200 faculty, staff, students, community members and state legislators attended. Thune closed the hearing with questions from multiple students in the audience. He stayed after the hearing to present to an honors government class. An archived video of the hearing can be found at: http://1.usa.gov/1hEk0Wz
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DSU Host GenCyber Girls Camp
Late in July, DSU hosted its second GenCyber Camp, as a “girls only” opportunity to be introduced to the much-in-demand field of cyber security. This cyber security camp was one of the first in the nation tailored specifically for girls and there was no cost to attend. Students in grades 8 through senior year stayed on campus students.while exploring the world of cyber security. Sessions were taught by current DSU professors, industry experts, DSU alumni, and
“We were so excited to introduce the field of cyber security, programing and networking to girls,” said Dr. Ashley Podhradsky, DSU professor and camp director. “Women make up over half of the workforce, but they only represent 26% of the computing field. This is something we decided to address by hosting this camp.” Organizers hoped that a non-coed setting might encourage more girls to participate, and the response was overwhelming. The camp had funding from the National Science Foundation for 60 girls to come to DSU for the week-long residential event. When over 180 girls applied to attend, SDN Communications graciously came forward and funded 40 more students. The camp was able to welcome 100 students from 10 states. Even at that, over 80 girls had to be turned away. The DSU faculty who ran the camp are working to find funding for more students for next summer. STEM Institute Receives Funding to Return for Fall 2016
The Great Plains Education Foundation awarded $17,000 to fund the STEM Institute for up to 20 students in the fall of 2016. The bridge program is slated to start a week before classes start for the Fall 2016 semester. Students will have a chance to have closer interaction with faculty and upper-level students in STEM disciplines. Participants will interact during the bridge week and throughout the semester in research experiences with faculty and their peers. DSU held the first STEM Institute in the summer of 2014 with 16 incoming freshmen in the cohort. They were able to participate in intensive collaborations with local STEM-focused institutions such as EROS Data Center and the Sanford Medical Research Center. STEM Institute students also traveled to the Nobel Conference 50 in St. Peter, Minn. and were able to attend an on-campus lecture by a leading National Geographic theproducer. pilot program were enrolled at DSU in the spring, and all Ninety-four percent of the students who participated in GPA of the students in the program for the fall semester was were retained in the SD Board of Regents system. The overall
future3.37. A programs survey of asthe student students mentors. reported that they felt the 12 program was beneficial and they would likely participate in @ DAKOTA STATE Integrated Design in Fall Enrollment Increase for 2015 Gaming (IDIG) Workshop
Dakota State reported an increase in enrollment numbers for Fall DSU hosted the Integrated 2015. Total headcount (number of students enrolled) topped 3,145, Design in Gaming (IDIG) Workshop in an increase of over 3% from last year. First year student numbers November, welcoming a number of increased 18%. well-known gaming professionals Dr. José-Marie Griffiths, DSU president, attributes the increase to campus. The experts gave to the university’s classes and degree programs that are interesting, withpresentations, students providing participated gaming in DSU insights game Potentialup-to-date, students and lead are to getting great jobs. the message“DSU’s tech-infused that whether curriculum they want anddesign inspiration classes and throughout interacted their informally four ensures that students will graduate ready for 21st century careers.
to be an elementary school teacher, a financial advisor, or a cyber days on campus. security expert, at DSU they’ll get the tech skills they need to be at the The professional game designers forefront of their profession. DSU faculty and staff have also focused included Dene Carter, Denis Dyack, Dr. on making the entire University experience student-focused and designersSusan Savett who and have Katherine founded Scheck. their own welcoming. We are pleased that students have responded to these Carter and Dyack are both lead efforts by more first-year students choosing DSU as their university, and more students staying at DSU to complete their degrees.” successful gaming companies. Dr. Savett Placement Rate Above National Average is a depth psychologist who is an expert Masterin game of mechanics Game Design and atarchetypical Kongju Nationalenergies ofUniversity mythology. in South Scheck Korea, is a With a 2014 placement rate of 95%, DSU graduates continue to excel a university known for its programs in moving immediately into professional career positions in their area of study. 84% of the entire graduating class was placed in South Dakota. Among DSU bachelors programs with a 100% placement rate in game design, animation and comic were education, computer information systems, health information art. Scheck is an expert in avatars, and administration, respiratory care, and biology information systems. provided insights as to the process South Dakota remained the locale of choice for 100% of bachelor’s alsoof creating jointly digitalpresented representations with Dr. Savett of on graduates in respiratory care, and exercise science. identity. Dr. Jeff Howard, DSU professor, by SouthDakota Dakota State’s Governor education Dennis graduates Daugaard chose that to remain found thatin South about Dakota half of at a 90% rate. This is in contrast to a report filed by a task force appointed techniques and insights to bring out the “soul” of a video game. all aspiring teachers graduating from South Dakota colleges left the state. Do you have a lifelong love of Dakota State?
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National Security Agency Announces New Education Partnership with DSU
The National Security Agency (NSA) has a new partnership between its National Cryptologic School (NCS) and Dakota State University – an initiative that allows agency employees to apply on-the-job training toward a bachelor’s degree in the university’s online cyber operations program. Under the new agreement, military and civilian employees at NSA may transfer up to 56 NCS course credits to the university’s bachelor’s program. The program’s online status makes it especially convenient for military personnel at the agency, emphasized Steve LaFountain, Dean of NSA’s College of Cyber. “Our military employees already go through extensive training to qualify for their roles here,” he said. “This partnership provides them with a huge head start toward obtaining a degree in a valuable field of study.” This Isn’t Your Parent’s Atari Dakota State has a large and growing student population who students themselves. And more take part in video gaming. Now a Dakota State’s collegiate advisor, coaches can actually be interestedteam participates in being in part the ofLeague team mustof Legends try out competitions. for the 18 available Gamers withinterestingly, the team coaches 15 minutes cannot prior coach to a select group of those students are during the games. They can interact moving to the next level in gaming, eSports – organized, multiplayer inslots. that The he orteam she has reviews a coach, tapes who of outmatch, of three. and for a minute in between video game competitions. acts like other collegiate coaches eachUnlike match other which sports, is played players best two Dakota State recently joined the team members, and ensures the the Collegiate STAR League (CLS), upcoming opponents, encourages with a good hardwired network and intercollegiate gaming league standing. need only a computer and a room open to all accredited colleges and players maintain good academic universities in North America and connection to participate. There are Europe. The CLS organizes leagues The Dakota State teams no men’s teams or women’s teams; for video game competitions compete against other universities eSports have the unique ability to popularincluding game League in the of Legends, world, with which, in their region, including Indiana include all genders on one team. 27according million topeople Forbes, playing is the per most day. University – Purdue, Jefferson ESports continues to grow, College, University of Michigan both on the DSU campus, and – Ann Arbor, North Dakota State worldwide. According to ESPN, a University, UniversityWestern Michigan of Kansas, professional tournament for League KansasUniversity, State, Eastern and the Michigan only other of Legends in South Korea sold out South Dakota university with a an entire World Cup stadium in October last year, and another team- strategy game, DOTA 2, featured collegiate team, South Dakota School a $10.9DSU’s million eSports prize teams pool are for oneits of Mines and Technology. The teams professional level competition. are rankedWhile eSports and win/loss teams ratiosshare are recorded. of many clubs and organizations sports team, there are a few on the campus. Go to http:// many traits to any other collegiate dsu.edu/student-life/clubs-and- organizations to learn more. differences that make eSports unique. While there is a faculty 14 @ DAKOTA STATE Dakota State lands $160,000 Grant From NSA
DSU recently announced a grant award in the amount of $160,000 from the National Security Administration (NSA) as part of their “INSuRE” program. Under the leadership of Dr. Wayne Pauli, Professor in DSU’s College of Computing, the grant, “INSuRE 2.0-An Agile, Persistent Cyber Security Research Network,” is driven by the growing national demand for effective cyber security research and researchers. The goals of the program include integrating research agility into the INSuRE Program, provisioning INSuRE for persistence, and Dakota State Earns Five Stars extending INSuRE participation and capacity. This award allows DSU to continue its work with the NSA and be part of an institutional collaborative that excels Dakota State is one of the 169 National Association of in cyber security research. All the members of the INSuRE Intercollegiate Athletics schools to be named to the NAIA’s network are first members of the National Centers of Five AsStar a result,institutions Dakota for State 2014-15. was one DSU of scored the 68 81 institutions points on tothe Academic Excellence in Information Assurance Research scorecard, 20 more points than the previous year. (CAE/R). The CAE/R program is jointly administered by the National Security Agency (NSA) and the Department of receive the Silver level for Five-Star institutions, and received Homeland Security (DHS). the most points by a North Star Athletic Association conference The INSuRE network of universities and research member in 2014-15. partners spans leading institutions from coast to coast and Institutions are measured on a demonstrated commitment includes Carnegie Mellon University, Purdue University, to Champions of Character, and earned points in character Stevens Institute of Technology, University of Texas at training, conduct in competition, academic focus, character Dallas, Northeastern University of Boston, Iowa State, the recognition, and character promotion. Institutions earned University of Alabama in Huntsville, and the University of points based on exceptional student-athlete grade point California, Davis, among others. Dakota State University averages and by having minimal or no ejections during will continue to respond to ever-increasing needs in competition throughout the course of the academic year. cyber security research and education. Current graduate Through Champions of Character, the NAIA seeks to create students at DSU will be participating in the research an environment with every student-athlete, coach, official, program, and a portion of the new funds will expand the sportsmanshipand spectator committed and servant to leadership.the true spirit of competition through five cores values: integrity, respect, responsibility, research to include interested undergraduate students. The General Beadle Honors Program is offering signed and numbered prints of “Christmas Break,” by artist John Green, thru the DSU Foundation. The print is of the former Kennedy Hall on the Dakota State campus. The original oil hangs in the office of the DSU President. Get your limited print today for $100.00 Price includes shipping. Proceeds are directed to the General Beadle Honors Program in the College of Arts of Sciences. Contact the DSU Foundation [email protected] 605-256-5857 for more information or to order your print.
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Beadle Leadership Society Funds Opportunities
Dakota State is state supported, meaning only 24% of the University’s budget is funded by the state of South Standing on the southwest corner of the DSU campus Dakota. We rely on private gifts from our alumni and is a statue of General William Henry Harrison Beadle. The General has been keeping watch over Dakota State students since the 1930’s, when a group of alumni and friends to provide academic opportunities for our students, friends dedicated the statue in recognition of General to fund research, maintain and improve the campus, and Beadle’s impact on education as a whole, and Dakota State most importantly, to support student scholarships. in particular. This year we are asking you to consider joining the You can read about General Beadle at the DSU Archives Beadle Leadership Society with a gift of $1,000 or more to page, http://archives.dsu.edu/index.php/key-facts/ the DSU Annual Fund. We know you are asked to give to university-presidents/beadle/. wheremany worthy it is needed causes, most. and to more than one area at Dakota This fall we developed a new giving society at DSU, State. We are asking that you direct that FIRST gift to dedicated to the same principles that drove General Beadle to a life of education and public service. The society will recognize donors who give unrestricted gifts to the DSU Annual Fund at and above $1,000. Unrestricted funds, or money that is directed to where the university can best use it, is, frankly, the hardest money to raise. And yet, it is also the most impactful. The funds Beadle that are given to the unrestricted fund allow us flexibility Leadership Society to seize opportunities and address unforeseen challenges est. 2015 leadership.as they arise. Decisions on the use of those funds flow through the Foundation Board of Directors and university
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Pay by credit card at dsu.edu/give ADVANCING THE MISSION Engaging with our alumni and donors
“What we wanted from Engage was a way to pull that
The Dakota State University Alumni and Foundation Office is using a new database to track constituents. The information back out in significant ways that help us do database is called Engage, and as the name implies, it our jobs more efficiently and effectively.” The Engage serves as a vehicle for the office to coordinate personalized software has reports that allow DSU staff to track and meaningful contact with the over 12,000 alumni, and relationships, manage fundraising and events, analyze an equal number of donors and friends of the university. data, and forecast revenue. Engage was created by Innovative Systems, a family From an alumni aspect, the database allows Schmidt owned business based in Mitchell, SD. Started in 1998, the to record a graduate’s information including degree and company employs close to 200 people, including numerous major, along with address and other contact information. DSU alumni, and continues to grow. Innovative’s original From that point, Schmidt can add personalized information butline inof 2012business a new is asdivision a provider was startedof software to provide products software and and track contacts her office has with the alum, from services for independent telecommunications companies, sending birthday cards to when that alum is solicited for a gift back to the university. “All this builds a story solutions for non-profit organizations. The vision for this about that alum,” she says. Over the years, she says, those innew South division Dakota. is to support the work of non-profits while stories can evolve into something more. “We use collected also creating employment opportunities for young people information to renew connections with our alumni. For instance, someone we know graduated with an education The DSU Foundation and Alumni Offices previously degree is an ideal contact for a student referral or a used a product called Raiser’s Edge, but when Innovative computer science graduate might be interested in meeting opportunityreached out into 2012build withsomething the idea from of collaborating the ground up on with with faculty from that college when they visit a certain a new fundraising project, “we were excited about the area.” The collaboration has been a positive for both DSU the team from Mitchell,” says Jona Schmidt, DSU Alumni and Innovative Systems. “Thanks to the invaluable advice Director. and expertise the Alumni and Foundation office has shared implementationMembers of ofthe the DSU database. Foundation “Putting and Alumninames and with us, we now have a great product which is available to worked with the Innovative group from conception to all types of non-profits,” says Emma DeVos, Engage Product Manager. For more information on Engage, contact Emma addresses into a database is the easy part,” says Schmidt. at 605-990-7284. Share the Harvest You won’t see any combines parked in the lots at Dakota State University, but we still have a lot in common with farmers.
We both play roles in moving people’s lives forward, with a commitment to today’s needs, while nurturing future generations. The Dakota State University Foundation reaches out to our alumni and friends for help in securing funding to support such things as scholarships, research, academic and athletic programming. Gifts of grain are a unique way for farmers to make a charitable gift, an investment in the future, while achieving tax savings. For farm operators, gifting grain directly, rather than selling the grain and making a gift from the proceeds, may provide a more significant tax savings. Contributing grain allows you to avoid the sale of the commodity as income, while the production costs may still be deductible. Reducing taxable income may provide advantages such as minimizing or eliminating self- employment tax and reducing adjusted gross income. We urge you to find out how you can share the harvest, and make a gift to benefit Dakota State University. There are important things to consider when making a gift of grain, and we would encourage you to consult your tax professional for advice applicable to your situation prior to making a gift of grain commodities. For more information on how you can donate using a gift of grain or commodity, contact [email protected] & notes Keeping Up with DSU Graduates Molstad Gorder named Distinguished Alumna
was named Distinguished Alumna at the Dr. Lynette (Nowotny) Molstad Gorder
Dr. Molstad Gorder is a professor in the 2015 DSU Commencement ceremony.
College of Business and Information Systems and has been on the faculty at Dakota State University for 35 years of teaching. She started at General Beadle State degree in 1970 and graduated from Dakota College earning a two-year associate
State College in 1972 with a degree in business education. She earned her M.A. in business education and an MBA, as well as from the University of South Dakota. a doctorate in educational administration After graduating from DSU, she taught The Molstad Gorder family gathered for a family photo this summer. We took the liberty of projecting the Dakota State high school business at Washington High graduation years onto Lynette’s grandchildren: School in Sioux Falls for nine years. While Pictured back row: teaching at DSU, she supervised business Tyler Ruhd, ’07; John Molstad, ’99; Hannah Molstad, ‘36; and computer education student teachers Elizabeth Vanhove Molstad, ’04; Tyler Dick. and has been involved in TTL (Technology Seated: Jill Molstad Ruhd, ’07; Colt Ruhd, ’36; for Teaching and Learning), DTL (Distance Dwayne Gorder; Lynette Molstad Gorder, ’72; Ann Molstad; Brody Dick, ’36. Technology Learning), Advanced TTL, Front: Brock Ruhd, ’33; Jackson Molstad, ’33. Classroom Connections, Youth Business Alumni news Adventure, Delta Mu Delta, and Phi Beta Lambda. She was the faculty development Send Your News coordinator for the Bush Grant from 2004- If you have news to share, 2008. She has served as the South Dakota Future Business Leaders of America (FBLA) State Testing let your fellow alumni Director and Executive Secretary since 1987. hear from you. She was named the Collegiate Teacher of the Year by the Mountain Plains Business Education E-mail: Association in 2007 and the South Dakota Business-Marketing Career Technical Education Teacher [email protected] in 2010. She received the Delta Pi Epsilon (DPE) Independent Research Award in 2009. She has held memberships in American Association of University Women (AAUW), Delta Kappa Gamma (DKG), Mail: Alumni Office and National Business Education Association (NBEA) for over 30 years. Dakota State University Lynette has ten extended family members who are also alumni of DSU including a sister, brother, 820 N Washington Ave. son, and daughter. Her family consists of her husband Dwayne Gorder, five children, and eight Madison, SD 57042 grandchildren. 18 CLASS NOTES
To Infinity and Beyond… A world of possibilities lies Gaylor, DSU assistant professor of University. He was one of only Barton also praises Dr. Michael before Clay “CJ” Barton. Barton, who 10 students that were accepted graduated in December 2014 with to the Research Experiences for chemistry, for his continued success. a degree in physical science with a programmedUndergraduates and (REU) ran simulations program “I’ve learned so much from him physics specialization. at LSU. During the experience, he including his perspectives on life employeeBarton at took the nation’shis first post-premier and academia which have been a bachelor position as an on-call of cosmic muons in a virtual liquid great source of inspiration for me.” argon detector for the Long Baseline particle physics laboratory, Fermi Neutrino Experiment. National Accelerator Laboratory, in Barton is currently applying to Batavia, Ill., where he worked as a graduate schools where he will earn research technician in connection a Ph.D. in physics while continuing with the Muon g-2 particle physics within the area of research. experiment. According to Femilab’s He gives much of the credit website, the research involves for his pre-and post-graduate “Fermilabs powerful accelerators success to his physics professor and to explore the interaction of short- meadvisor, to apply Dr. Barbara for the internship Szczerbinska. at lived particles known as muons with “She was the one who encouraged a strong magnetic field in ‘empty’ space.” LSU last summer, as well as for “It involves the study of vacuum the SDSGC student educational fluctuations by studying particles stipend,” said Barton. “Even now travelling through a vacuum at nearly that I’ve graduated, Dr. Szczerbinska the speed of light,” Barton said about is continuing to help me in the the experiment. search for new opportunities. I find While a student at DSU, Barton butthis reallyremarkable that’s justgiven the that kind I am of no received an educational stipend longer an official student of hers, from the NASA South Dakota Space Grant Consortium (SDSGC) and person she is.” also interned at Louisiana State Get your limited edition GBSTC t-shirt for $10 through the Alumni Office. Send an email to [email protected] or call 605-256-5857 to order yours today. Price includes shipping. 19 ALUMNI NEWS ONE Room - TWO Perspectives
earlyDakota graduates State took has positionsbeen educating in teachers since 1881. Many of those rural schools – one-room school houses – where they taught all age levels, all subjects, and took care of the school building on the side. For many of us, what we know about one-room school houses we learned from folklore; the kind popularized by Laura Ingalls Wilder in her “Little House” books, but prior to World War I, the majority of American children were educated in one room school houses. That changed after World War I when people began moving to cities, and small schools began to consolidate. Today about 200 one-room school houses exist in the United States. Irma Martin Photo by Sally Y. Shelton came to Eastern underState Teachers the NationalCollege in Youth 1940 Administration with farm houses on the other 3 indoorposition plumbing. at Deragisch School, which corners. Her wage was $60 a month, had the added attraction for Irma of was part of from which room and board, and program, which any incidentals she needed for Irma’s experience as a teacher her classroom, were deducted, reflects many of the same challenges President Franklin Deal, providing and she says it was as much a settingfaced by in today’s the 1940’s teachers, meant but her workRoosevelt’s and New learning experience for her as for with a twist. Teaching in a rural drinking,her students. or parties, The rules and for women new teachers included no smoking, first classrooms lacked electricity. education for Americans prior to likeDuring sugar, World meat, War and II, even commodities shoes wasWWII, assigned and is similara position to what as a librarytoday’s were not allowed to wear slacks – were rationed, so access to things assistant,students know and was as work-study. able to earn Irma even though the classrooms were enough money to pay for her tuition married.heated only by a wood stove. Female was restricted. One thing that hasn’t as well as rent on a small room teachers were also not allowed to be changed over the years is the help went to Washington and worked in Irma was given by the parents of her At the outbreak of WWII, Irma students. They even came to her aid near campus. When she earned students.with extra rationing coupons, so she her teaching diploma in 1941 her the shipyards, which, at $.95 an hour couldPart manage of the for daily herself life of and the her classroom options were mostly of towas South a marked Dakota increase and resumed from her the one-room variety. monthly teacher’s pay. She returned Irma took her first teaching helpedrural school with everythingstudent was from chores, at job at the Four Corner’s School teaching at the Corson Country home, and at school. Irma’s students in Kingsbury County, so named School now on display at Prairie because it was on one corner, 20 Village in Madison. Later she took a lighting the wood stove to cleaning ALUMNI NEWS
the classroom. No janitors in those German dialect. Her students attend of school with work at the Colony early days; teacher and pupil took an hour of lessons at German School including gardening and babysitting, care of it all. Being the only teacher each day, where the emphasis is on so they do not participate in extra- for all grade levels meant Irma not Hutterite values and ways of life, curricular activities like sports. The only taught academics, she also thembefore through they come lessons to the in classroom reading, students enjoy interaction with coordinated any musical programs, languageat Rustic Acres.arts, spelling, Cheryl thengrammar, takes “English” people (anyone outside and encouraged her students in the Colony), so Deelstra arranges for physical activities by taking part study keyboarding and penmanship. herlessons daily given lessons by otheras time area permits. teachers anotherherself at Dakota recess times. social studies, and science. They also and incorporates music and PE into StateFast student forward is 56 years, and levels on a daily basis is another graduating with a Preparing for six different grade Schools are often the heart of a community, and one-room schools and more options challenge of teaching in a one-room sitare abandoned, no exception. the Although buildings many serve of teaching degree, school. Some colonies use more the schools in rural South Dakota meanstechnology she doesthan aothers; lot of prep in Cheryl’s outside for a conventional case, the internet is limited. This as reminders of the importance of classroom. Yet access to education that was, and Cheryl Deelstra, of regular school hours, something remains part of the fabric of our ’97, chose to other teachers can do with the help society. teach at a one- of computers on their job site. Despite the fifty-plus years that room school What she gives up in access to separate their careers, Cheryl and near Chester, SD. technology is made up in student jobIrma is dotough, share but a singlethe rewards perspective are throughRustic Acres 8th grade,Colony from school the serves nearby relationships. The students at Rustic boundless.when it comes And to perhaps teaching more – the so 17 students ranging in age from 3rd learningAcres help an each important other, withpart ofpeer the dailyto peer lessons. teaching Working and incidental together is Hutterite Colony, Cheryl has been when the teaching takes place in teaching for 18 years, 12 of them at a one-room environment where Rustic Acres. part of Hutterite culture, and Cheryl lessons are as much about life as Teaching at a colony school uses that to advance the learning academics. presents its own unique challenges. experience in her classroom. The Hutterites are a communal The students in Cheryl’s people, whose first language is a classroom are kept busy outside Share Your Memories with the DSU Archives
Dakota State University has an extensive archives with a collection of items that illustrate our long and rich history. We accept donations from alumni and friends, and proudly display them in cases in the Mundt Library, and occasionally on loan to other campus departments. We are asking you to consider sending your college memorabilia to us. We knowWe would many love of your to give items your are memorabilia precious to ayou; permanent even so, homewe know and that are they often get tucked away and sometimes forgotten.
especially interested in letter sweaters, scrapbooks, pennants, and photos. We will keep and care for items, and proudly display them for others to see. Over the years we have received some wonderful additions to our collection includingIf you an Eastern have items sweater. for donation, please contact Ryan Burdge, DSU Archives, Karl E. Mundt Library 820 N Washington Ave., Madison, SD 57042 Ryan Burdge, our new Archivist, holding Phone 605-256-5211 the E Sweater and some of the yearbooks donated by retired staffer Carrie Ahern.
21 ALUMNI NEWS What does Dakota State University have in common with Sue Bee Honey?
to 1964, many of us have the familiar ofhive. bee There hive teamwork, the bees deposit and frankly, the nectar. a PresidentMembers. of He Administration was made Director in 1986. of MoreKnown than as youSioux might Bee Honey realize. prior From there, it is a complex process the department in 1981, and Vice bottle in our kitchen cupboards. The likewonder the oneof nature, David forworked the nectar for in to In 1992, he was named Executive Vice company, founded by five beekeepers transform into raw honey. Beekeepers, President. In 2004, David was named addednear Sioux other City, lines Iowa, of honey changed that their we all President and CEO of Sioux Honey name brand to Sue BeeHoney, and later Winner, aid the production of honey, Association. gather the raw product, and in the Today, David oversees an recognize,After graduating including Aunt from Sue’s the 8th Raw case of the Members of Sioux Honey Association membership that includes gradeHoney. in 1966 in Winner, South Dakota, Association, a marketing cooperative, approximately 300 Members from David Allibone was looking for a job to world.take it to processing plants where it is locations around the country, and packagedWhen and David shipped graduated throughout from high the Sue Bee Honey is processed in plants located in Sioux City, Iowa; Anaheim, keep him busy during the summer. His business, but was not sure where he California; and Elizabethtown, North father suggested he work for a local school, he knew he wanted to go into ofCarolina. getting the honey from the hive to beekeeper who was a Member of Sioux For all that growth, the process Honey Association. David got the job, would pursue his degree. He had worked at it through high school, and an uncle who worked for the Rural thereyour kitchen are some has larger remained beekeeping relatively returned to it during his first summer Electric Association, with an office in operations,unchanged overbeekeeping the years. is a Althoughmostly break from college – Dakota State Madison. The uncle mentioned DSC to generational business, handed down College. David, who decided to visit the campus. like the family farm. And several of The art of beekeeping is practiced David had wrestled in high school, and those beekeeping families have ties to as a science. Honey production is part happened to run into DSC’s wrestling of the pollination lifecycle. Flowers coach during his campus visit. He also produce nectar, which attracts insects met with the college’s business faculty Dakota State University, including Ray including bees. The bees move from athat student day. Decisionand prior made, to getting David married moved ’72, and Ann, ’73 Galbraith, who were flower to flower, collecting nectar, and to Madison, lived in Higbie Hall while honored by Sioux Honey Association in pollinating the flowers. The nectar 2013 as Pioneer Award recipients. is stored in the bees’ crop, or honey administration.to Marcy, and graduated in December, of thatWhat saying, goes as around is David comes Allibone’s around. stomach, which is separate from its 1973 with a degree in business Honey production is a vivid example digestive stomach, until it reaches the started as a summer job for a boy in And went straight to Sioux City to career with the honey industry. What begin a 41 year career with Sue Bee as he now represents at the highest Honey. junior high school has come full circle, was Itplotted may seem out from that the leapbeginning. from Notitinerant so, says beekeeper Allibone, to who Sue reportsBee Honey he level, producers just like the one who inhired the himUnited in 1966. States, Sue with Bee a global Honey suggestion of his father, who his son’s is the most recognized honey brand applied for the Sioux City job at the thought it would be a good way for his presence that extends to the Middle sonbackground to use his in business honey notwithstanding, degree. East, Far East, and South and Central America. thinkSo, about the next the linktime between you take the your honey Department,David started and just with as the the Association title andbottle Dakota of Sue State Bee HoneyUniversity. from Gives the shelf, in 1974 in the Member Relations you one more reason to be a proud graduate of our alma mater, DSU. implies, his job was to provide service 22 and information to the Association’s TRAVEL OPPORTUNITIES Travel Opportunities for Alumni
DSU Faculty to Lead European Tour During the spring semester, Dakota State University students and
community members have an opportunity to discover and appreciate European art and architecture from Paris to Rome. The 10- to 12-day faculty-led study tour is an excursion to the museums and architectural sites across Italy and France, including the Louvre, Notre Dame and Muse’ d’Orsay in Paris, the Accademia and Uffizi Galleries in Florence, the Colosseum and Borghese gardens in Rome and the Vatican’s Sistine Chapel, which is adorned with Michelangelo’s iconic Renaissance work, “The Creation of Adam.” While the focus of the DSU tour is for art and architecture, there will also be time to soak in Europe’s food, fashion and culture. Travel is coordinated by EF Educational Tours, who have been in the college study tour business for 50 years. This will be the fourth time DSU has offered the excursion. signStudents up for the can tour. enroll More in variousinformation art classes is available and receive from DSU credit Professor for their Alan studies during and after the tour. Community members are also invited to
Montgomery at [email protected]. Alumni and Friends trek through Peru
A group of 23 alumni and friends took a trip to Peru this summer. They visited the Amazon and Machu Picchu, taking in the local culture. The trip was led by DSU professor Deb Tech. Next year, Tech is planning a trip to Cuba. If you are interested in joining, contact her at [email protected] or contact the alumni office [email protected]. ALUMNI NEWS
Krebs is has been turned e down. South Dakota’s upsid Secretary of State Shantel Swedlund Krebs, ’98, is But upside down isn’t always bad.
Krebs was sworn in as the 28th South Dakota’s Secretary of State. Take for instance, the relatively new concept of the Sioux Falls New Technology High School that opened in 2010. The school is part Secretary of State in January, 2015. of the Sioux Falls School District, and conforms to state standards for After graduating from high school degree in business administration education, but that is about as far as traditional education goes at New in Arlington, Krebs earned a bachelor’s from Dakota State University. Tech High School. There are no text books at New Tech, where students work in a 1:1 computer environment doing research, and solving real world Shantel has had a successful career problems. Traditional high school courses are combined, like bio-lit, in the healthcare industry, business owned and operated two stores in which is a hybrid of biology and English. Students learn by creating consulting and entrepreneurship. She and analysing projects, and in the case of bio-lit, that learning can revolve around analysing scientific evidence at a mock crime scene, Sioux Falls, and most recently operated and then writing short stories about the incident. a consulting firm with business and Students for New Tech are chosen through a lottery system, retail clients across the United States since the demand for class space outpaces room at the school. and Canada. When students reach the junior and senior level, they participate in In 2014, Shantel concluded a internships and post-secondary coursework. decade-long tenure in the legislature. and four in the Senate, holding Holli Gregg Rausch is an instructor at New Tech. Holli graduated She served six years in the House, from Dakota State in 2007 with a degree in computer graphic design, and went on to earn a M.Ed. in teaching from University of Sioux Falls. committee chairs in Transportation Holli teaches graphics, art, animation, and photography at NT. and Agriculture & Natural to leadership positions For Holli, the opportunity to teach at NT was the perfect match Resources. She was elected for the graphic skills she learned at DSU, and her philosophy and She and her beliefs as an educator. “New Tech High School helps students develop in both chambers. skills and strategies needed to be successful in college and beyond E ducation T raditional -- collaboration, oral and written communication, and agency,” says husband Mitch live Holli. “Partnering with businesses and community leaders on every on a small ranch in project provides students Fort Pierre. with real-world, authentic learning opportunities.” provides for the state and The model New Tech region is one of taking
traditional education and making it applicable to the skills required to be successful in the 21st on its head. And it’s all century. Turning education good. ALUMNI NEWS Accounting for Taste on the Four Corners
Many alumni will remember the
doors open, the owners offered regular
This summer, with the garage
on your era, it was Sportsman’s, tables enhance an atmosphere that e down. upsid four-corners in Madison. Depending encourages table-hoping. But it is what is coming out of the events, many featuring live music. They also support community efforts, toThe name Smokehouse, a few of the Foley’s, businesses Skippers, that kitchen at The Pub House that has Rumors, Trojan Tap, or Lon’s Cocktail, locals talking, and visitors from out of and have plans to share their success town making the trip to Madison. The with the community through service have found a home at the corner. culinary creations are the work of The theirprojects. support Already through supporters partnerships of the The four corners is still there, Pub House’s executive chef Francis university, the group has enhanced at the junction of S. Egan Ave and WaitWakeman….the a minute…what? accountant. with DSU athletics with the hosting of northwest,SW 1st. What and has the changed Smokehouse is the and corner’s complexion. Sporty’s is to the events. Combined with the welcoming atmosphere, and the table-side Francis is a Dakota State graduate, attention from The Pub’s owners, the Foley’s to the north. The southwest, class of 2006, with a degree in business is on its way to becoming the has had several incarnations, the accounting, finance, and marketing. premier anchor of the four-corners and latest being a golf-addiction type Following college, he found work in a must-stop Madison destination. establishment known as JBs. cost accounting and human resources. But the big change to the four- The transformation from Francis the corners is The Pub House, plugged account manager, to Chef Francis into the former Rumors and Cocktail started when his father encouraged buildings after an extensive renovation him to attend culinary school. From that transformed the former college there, he worked as a pastry chef in hang-out into a family-friendly venue. SiouxMeanwhile, Falls, with businessmena long-range goalDarin to Inside, with exposed brick have his own kitchen. walls and framed photos of historic Knodel, were toying with the idea Madison hanging on the walls, The Namken, Scott Delzer, and Todd Pub House feels old despite the fresh coat of paint. To the rear, a large and serves as the platform for live haveof creating worked a newto together type of ordining partnered space accommodates private parties, inexperience several business in Madison. ventures The ofthree the last
beermusic. vendors The bar are features invited unique to take events over including Tap Takeovers, where craft the bar for an evening and give patrons graduate15 years, frombut this Yankton, was their Namken, first foray and a sampling of their brews. into food service. Knodel, a 1986 DSU
Delzer purchased the Rumors building, Large garage doors open to town.and began a renovation project that the west, creating an outdoor patio soon became the talk of this small area, while inside, cozy buffet seating, group-size booths, and pub The Pub House opened in December, 2014, with Chef Francis in the kitchen. At first a bit wary of what locals would accept in cuisine, Chef Francis has since offered dishes allas exoticto the asoverwhelming Asian duck tacos, approval and ofas comforting as a bacon cheeseburger,
his customers. The chef is expanding the offerings with more cultural fare, encouraging customers to expand their pallets, and has plans to offer couples cooking classes in the future. 25 ALUMNI NEWS
Mission Africa: How DSU alumni are impacting the world, one cinderblock at a time.
Most of us are familiar with the report that shows over half of the improve the lives of farmers in rural that grew out of a grassroots effort Greenfield which continues to work to phrase ‘think globally, act locally,’ secondary-age girls are not enrolled in Promotions)Kenya. POET topartners bring advisors works with into a a secondary education. encouraging people to take care of local group, FIPS Africa (Farmer Input For several years, POET has been thattheir meant world doingby taking everything action in from their involved in a project to grow and local communities. For many of us, village to teach them proper farming support an all-girls boarding school totechniques. help those less fortunate, and Greenhouse.called Travellers’ Oasis Centre in planting trees, to cleaning up our The trip stirred a desire in Broin Kenya. This initiative is called Mission rivers, to volunteering for community his employees. Along with Mission wasenhancement enough. efforts. that passion has trickled down to The project started in 2013, with And for some of us, that local effort a group of POET employees traveling Greenfield, Broin and POET have to Sultan Hamud, Kenya to help build But for employees of POET, several supported Lifelight, the Children’s a greenhouse next to the school where
Monica and Greg Stelzer Monica Stelzer Natalie Piehl (center front)
of whom are DSU Alumni, that was just students and staff grow their own food. the beginning. regional and international efforts. Home Society, and several other local, a similar longing to help others, the The greenhouse is the size of three Inspired by POET Founder and To encourage employees who have football fields, and is producing crops takenExecutive their Chairman spirit of volunteerism Jeff Broin, many from for the school, plus a surplus that they members of the POET family have POET Foundation helps pay for an can use at market. around the world. storyannual of mission our Dakota trip Stateto Kenya, Alumni. Africa. buildIn a 2014, new dormitory the next POET for the group girls. just around the corner to half way And that is where we pick up the partnered with a local contractor to Kenya pay fees for room, board, POET, founded by Broin and based Students attending school in This group included two Dakota State in Sioux Falls, SD, is one of the world’s alumni, Natalie Piehl and Monica largest producers of ethanol. A 2012 tuition, textbooks, uniforms, exam fees, andStelzer. graduated with a degree in church mission trip to Africa caused and extracurricular fees. In an area businessNatalie from is originally Dakota State from in Howard, 1982. Jeff Broin to look at how farming was especially hard hit by poverty, many done in that country, and how he parents cannot afford to pay for their could help to improve the farming children’s education, with girls being She is a grain accountant with POET, processes, and in turn, the yields. The affected more detrimentally than boys. and has been with them since 2006, 26result was a project called Mission This is reflected in a 2012 UNESCO one of the original start-up crew ALUMNI NEWS by hand. Yet, it was “one of the most plant. members at the Mitchell ethanol enjoyable experiences I have ever For Natalie, POET’s call to had,” says Natalie. service was something she couldn’t That sentiment is seconded by ignore. “Once I was aware of the Monica, who traveled from her home raisingneed, how the couldfunds Ito not make respond?” the trip near Dell Rapids with her husband So Natalie started the process of inGreg 1998 to participatewith a degree in the in business project. Monica graduated from Dakota State workingto Africa. to From raise the the start, money Natalie to pay forwas her committed portion ofto thethe tripproject, gave but her and works at POET corporate a “more intimate ownership of the headquarters in Sioux Falls as an executive assistant. Volunteerism is something Monica knows, having process.” given time to community projects of the brush, with students running The 10-day trip to Africa was including Habitat for Humanity andwas jumping,actually a all field, while cleared wearing of most toNatalie’s a region first of thetrip world out of that the Unitedis beset and the Banquet. She and Greg had byStates. poverty From and Mitchell, famine, she and traveled still participated in mission trips to no shoes. They also visited local had a lot of what she sees in her Jamaica and Mexico, but making the marketplaces, which are literally trip “Weto Africa have was, no idea according how other to both, “an eye-opener.” road-side stands that pop up overnight, and disappear as quickly. everyday life in America – beautiful and Greg visited the families of the young people full of potential. “I was people truly live,” said Monica. She The work that Jeff Broin and struck by the girls, their faith, and the groups from POET started in Kenya is far from complete. withtheir thecheerfulness,” girls in their says short Natalie. 10 days She Andgirls yet,at the she school, reports, and the saw behavior firsthand Through Mission Greenfield, Mission thatand thefor Natalie,others made will last connections a lifetime. the reality of a third-world society. Greenhouse, and POET’s other “My original thought was that we outreach programs, volunteers were bringing something valuable to of the girls was typical of teenagers everywhere. “They loved our like NatalieNot all whoand Monicahelp the are Kenyan given opportunities to act globally. sunglassesphones, and were cameras, popular and among were all the these girls,” said Natalie, referring to familiar with ‘selfies.’” She also said the donated gifts they carried with projects traveled to Africa. POET conducts ongoing fundraising them. “But what I found is that I left girls;Along she surrendered with the hard several work pairsof with far more than I could have ever to enthusiastic girls while there. efforts including a golf tournament given.” and annual auction, with proceeds The work Natalie and the building the 3-story dorm, the aiding the Kenyan school. And their employees including Natalie and Natalie Piehl (center front) other DSU alum Monica Stelzer group had time to interact with the spirit of giving instilled in them from did was hard. Tools were basically girls – visiting their classrooms and Monica remain committed to the nonexistent or hand-made. Supplies, attending religious services, making including the cinder block used in friendship bracelets, and attending a likePOET’s the leadership,one they had and in reinforcedKenya. construction, were hauled by hand. track meet that attracted both girls through life-changing experiences Brush and debris had to be cleared and boys from the area. The track
If you’re interested in sponsoring a girl at Travellers’ Oasis Centre, please visit http://seedsofchange.org/toc/give/
More information can be found at their website http://www.poet.com/foundation.
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Dreaming Big . . . Imagine waking up each morning with no real idea what the day will bring. Sure, you have a plan, and the training to execute that plan, but you know the saying about best laid plans….
She joined the Army National
You dress carefully, knowing how you choose to present yourself Guard because she had a desire to thewill driver’scommand seat. respect, a vital part of serve her county, and enjoyed taking your job. Your outfit says you are in wason a thatchallenge. it ‘didn’t Her interfere first choice with of her MOS (military occupation specialty) yourFew dream, have and chosen as your this motto path, goes,but for you there was no other. This is tocollege her, and courses’. mentioned That changed the aviation when the ROTC folks from SDSU talked “If yourAnd dreams then the don’t bell scarerings, you,and for her, she was told. Apparently maybe they aren’t big enough.” program. It would be ‘a long shot’ you spring into action. You have one the recruiter didn’t realize this was Andchance when and the you mission operate is with over, skill you a woman destined to teach middle and expertise. In short, you execute. school math. The path from signing up with celebrate another success. the ROTC program to the day last But you don’t get too excited. August when she received her flight you have 7 more to go before the training, labs, and drills were not work, coupled with the support of That was just the first period, and wings was eventful. As if classes, her familyShe student and friends, taught, kept and Brittanyeven on her chosen path. school day is over. enough, Brittany was a member So goes the day of middle school of the DSU track team. As an ROTC Pearson, a 2012 graduate of DSU, is before graduation, accepted a job math teacher, Brittany Pearson. cadet, she quickly rose to the top of as a middle school math teacher in the class. Watertown. There were, however, an instructor in the Douglas Middle Through it all, Brittany kept her at the wheel in May, 2011. a few more hurdles for her to clear School in Rapid City, where she focus. Until that day she fell asleep before she could be considered for teaches math to 7th graders. for not many of us would dare to aviation training. Her ankle healed, Let’s just call Brittany fearless, It was the last week of school, she now had to pass the flight after her last final, and the last track to drive home for Mother’s Day to physical. And for once, Brittany enter the halls of a middle school, meet of the season. Brittany decided motto, though, and you will begin to failed, due to eyesight. But failure much less to teach. Remember her understand this woman who goes was tired, and had every reason to was temporary. Photorefractive surprise her mom in Rosholt. She keratectomy (PRK) eye surgery enabled her to pass the exam, and far beyond a challenging day job to be. She fell asleep, and crashed her her ankle, and put her dreams she qualified for training. reach new heights. Literally. car. A one-car accident that crushed in the South Dakota Army National Brittany was commissioned a Brittany Pearson is a Lieutenant Guard. And as of August 7, 2014, jeopardy. second lieutenant on July 26, 2012. of becoming an Army aviator in During the school year, Brittany was required to travel to Rapid a Blackhawk helicopter pilot. A test of faith, Brittany calls it. were kind of her thing. And she City once a month to drill with the The Distinguished Graduate (top But she was a top student. Tests aviation unit. Toward the end of student) in her training class, (pun intended.) Surgery, rehab, the school year, she left to attend Brittany is now an Aeromedical passed this one with flying colors determination, and lots of hard flight school, with the support of her Evacuation Officer, based in Rapid teacher colleagues and students. 28City. ALUMNI NEWS
to pin on her aviation wings. She is
Fifteen month of intense training included eight weeks now a qualified army aviator. of Aviation Basic Leadership And a middle math school Training, a month of survival teacher. training, aeromedical training, So the training continues, instrumentsand flight training. training, She and also night for both professions. Brittany visionhad Basic goggle Warfighting training. Skills,When not stays current with teaching trends, technology changes in the classroom, and curriculum issues in the helicopter, trainees were in and updates. She maintains flight weather,the classroom, and general learning aviation the physics rules. Sheproficiency is held to by the putting same in standards a certain as of aerodynamics, the science of amount of flight hours per month. making her responsible for the Brittany was chosen as a leader, a regular active duty Army pilot, but has to find time to do it along with others in her class. She was one her civilian job. of only two flight students able her stronger.Brittany is living her dream. to proceed straight through the And it doesn’t scare her. It makes training without a hitch. brotherBrittany were graduated there at graduation at the top Imagine that. of her class of 25. Her parents and Former Senator Larry Pressler Looking forward to Speaks on DSU’s Campus 2016 The DSU College of Art and Sciences and the Lights, Camera, Action! film club welcomed former U.S. Senator for January 6 - DSU Alumni Volunteer Opportunity South Dakota, Larry Pressler, for a presentation titled, “History, Hollywood and War: Larry Pressler and the making of American History.” Feeding South Dakota Backpack program Senator Pressler discussed the award-winning film Join us at 6pm to help fill backpacks for children in take“American a bribe Hustle” in the stingand how operation the ABSCAM that snared scandal seven was mem Sioux Falls. Contact the alumni office portrayed in the film. He famously was the only one NOT to [email protected], 26 - A Night 605-256-5857in Havana - DSU Gala - bers of Congress and many other political figures in the fundraising event late 1970’s. Sen. Pressler, a decorated Vietnam veteran, also DSU Foundation’s premier scholarship spoke about his views on the accuracy of war films and what effects they have on the general perception of those wars. Contact the DSU Foundation for tickets [email protected], 1 – 3 - DakotaCon 605-256-5693
Features presentations from world-wide experts in computer security Site of the North Central Region National forCollegiate more information Cyber Defense Competition Contact [email protected] 605-256-5849 May 7 - 50 Year Graduate Recognition
Class of 1956 will be honored In conjunction with DSU Commencement Ben Jones, Ph.D., Dean of the College of Arts & Science, left DSU Fieldhouse in Madison with former Senator Larry Pressler, right ALUMNI NEWS
1960’s Chris Giles, ‘89, was appointed Norman Anderson, ’69, Manager at James River Equipment magistrate judge for the Third in Madison.Danelle Keninger, Hoyer has ’02, been was with Judicial Circuit. Previously, Giles had James River for 14 years. is retired after 39 years as an Attorneybeen elected and fourhas alsodifferent been times engaged educator, much of it teaching special to serve as the Lake County State’s honored by her employer, Chester education in the Minneapolis public Area School, as Teacher of the Year schools. He lives on a hobby farm hisin private wife, Karen, practice live of in law. Madison He is awith for 2014-2015. She is in her 12 1970’snorth of the Twin Cities. 1992 graduate of the USD. He and girls’year of basketball teaching and5th grade,volleyball. and also James Treloar, ’70, has retired coachesErin (Carmody), middle and high’03, andschool 1990’stheir four children. Tim Smit, ’92, from the SD Department of Social and member of the husband Joe Riedel welcomed Services after more than 30 years, Elementary.Eliza Jo on August 13, 2014. Eric Jimmost was recently the Dakota as the State Regional Alumni is aMatt Title and 1 Teacher Amber at (Burma) Dell Rapids Manager for Economic Assistance. DSU Athletic Hall of Larson, both ’04, had their third during the university’s mission Fame, competed in the Association President prior to and heldIronman in See, 70.2 Austria World on Lois Hyde, ’72, retired from Championship triathlon child July 30, 2014. Cooper Maxwell change. joins big brothers Brady (11) and inAugust his age 30. group Tim is (among ranked isNoah a programmer (7). They live Castlewood School after 42 years 11,00037th overall athletes), in the and world in Dell Rapids. Matt of teaching. After graduating from operates his own Dakota State, Hyde spend one year for Citibank and theas a last K-8 41tutor years in theas a Hamlin 5th grade District, 13thDavid overall Colberg, in the ’95,USA is(among the new website www. but has been with Castlewood for superintendent3,500 athletes). for the Marion news and broadcast Marsha Webster teacher. Kirchner, ’74, is a BigSiouxMedia. School District. Colberg was com. Amber is an previously a school administrator Lynette Lehrman Weidenbach, accountant for ByrneJF, ’05, and for Sioux Valley and White River. Licensed Clinical ’96, Companies in SiouxMackenzie Falls. Professional Counselor (Hallberg), ’07, and husband BarryJanuary welcomed 14. She and Licensed Marriage Jensen Maci Lynn, born Marshaand Family has Therapist,been in private located in Missoula. MT. old brother , welcomed joins 2-1/2 year on September 29, Steve Pociask, ’75, retired from Evan at home in Pierce Thomas practice since 1992. Madison. Theran Koch, 2014. He joins ’97, donated a kidney to his father, Hanson High School after 40 years brother Bennett Terry Koch, ’69. with the district, where he was a and sister Lyddia at science teacher, coach, and athletic Theran, from home in Sioux Falls. Megan (Buck) director. His wife Jill (Ingemansen) Montrose, works in Bridges and ’05,Jordyn and Floyd, Grace ’03,Rummel Rummel was .born ’76, is also retiring after 39 years as Buildings for Burlington Northern SheDecember joins big 5, 2014sisters to Madison an English and drama teacher, 27 of and Terry and his wife Gwenda those spent at Hanson. 1980’s areJohn, retired ’99, but and run Elizabeth Cornerstone in Madison where Steve Harter, ’82, is the (Vanhove)Coffeehouse ’04 and, Molstad Deli in Mitchell. Meganand Peyton. works The for Rummels East live
welcomed principal of Sibley East Junior High Hannah Elizabeth on November 24, MeganRiver and is a Floyd member for wasSchool named in Gaylord, the Minnesota MN, a position Middle he 2014. She joins brother Jackson (3) ofGreat the WesternDakota State Bank. has held for 14 years. In 2014, he at2000’s home in Ramona. Rhonda (Callies) Hoyer, ’01, Level Principal of the Year by the Alumni Association Minnesota Association of Secondary and Floyd is on the School30 Principals. was recently promoted to General Foundation Board of Trustees. ALUMNI NEWS Jennifer (Grimm) Daren Anderson, ‘09 has won Katie Bourk, ’11, enters her Kamrud, ’06, and husband Michael with the Augustana University Kamrud, ’08, Diplomat of the Year for the Sioux women’sthird season basketball as an assistant program coach in Falls Area Chamber welcomed inof aCommerce row. Daren for 2015.baby girl She Londynn joins four year isthe President second year of 2015-16. This season will be oldKristine sister on Emmersynn. February 19, Bourk’s fifth season overall with the Vikings, after serving as a graduate Big D Technology assistant from 2011-13. Bourk was a Both Jennifer and Solutions, Inc and member of the Lady T’s at DSU, and Michael work in the ChesterEric Area Big D Online Solutions. He is was a student-assistant coach when School District. Petterson, involved with the Sioux Falls Area the Lady T’s made it to the NAIA ’07, Chamber of Commerce serving on National Tournament and advanced the Diplomat and SmallMichael Business to the Sweet 16 in 2008. Bourk from committees. Anderson, resides in Sioux Falls. relocated ’09, and wife Madison spent a Waukee,Humboldt, IA to August, year teaching in IA, in Ecuador, but are now back home 2014. Eric is an elementary PE in Colorado teacher at Findley Elementary marriedSprings, CO.June 7, School in Des Moines. His wife Tonia They were Bob Olson, ’11, married Abby is an assistant vice president for Hy whoVee in is Westa freshman Des Moines. at South Eric Dakota and 2013. Michael works at Gopher Sport in Owatonna. StateTonia University, have four children: Shelby, who Hunter, is a is the dean of Falcon Middle School MaxsonVanessa October Carlson, 11, 2014. ’13, works Bob for in Colorado Springs and Madison is the Marketing Coordinator for U.S. juniorTyler, at Waukee’07, and HighJill (Molstad), School, Chloe Triathalon in Colorado Springs. the Trinity Lutheran Church, ELCA, ’07,is in kindergarten and Cayden. in Madison as a part-time social media expert/editor/photographer. Ruhd welcomed Colt O’Neal, Vanessa is engaged to be married born July 18, 2014. He joins brother into Septemberher college ofsweetheart 2016. Matt and is a Brock (4) at home in Madison. Jill 2012 DSU graduate, Matt Bender, worksJodi in Neugebauer, the DSU Foundation ’08 and Tyler works for InfoTech. Nick ‘10 and Tara (Buehler) ‘09 softwareKarlie developerVander Vorst, for Citibank ’14, is the in , achieved Skonhovd were married September Sioux Falls. her National Board Certification. of Gettysburg, SD. She also serves as Jodi is a generalist/early childhood Sarah Keppen, ’10, is an Deputy Finance Officer for the city teacher in the Garretson School 6, 2014. They live in Lincoln, ND. District. Jodi joins just 106 South Tye,co-manager ’14, and is a lifeguard at the Dakota teachers who have gone applications analyst in the IT Hoven City Pool. She and husband through the certification process. software services department at live in Hoven. Regional Health in Rapid City, SD. Dorothy Marie Spethman Dorothy Spethman
Former DSU instructor passed away March 11, 2015. She taught elementary and special education at DSU from 1974 through her retirement as emeritus faculty in 1996. Dorothy was born in Veblen, SD in 1935 and graduated from Veblen High School in 1952. She joined the convent in 1953 and served as a nun for 16 years. In 1969 she left the convent and married Robert Spethmann in 1970. She is survivedDavid Peak by husband, Robert; daughter, Mary Jo (John) Bellinger; grandsons, Jack and Joey; and other extended family. Dakota State University professor David Peak
passed away at his home October 7, 2015. Dr. Peak attended LA In Memory . Technical University where he was a member of Kappa Alpha Fraternity. He worked in the Shreveport- Bassier City oil fieldsby his beforewife, Gina, getting son his Adam, bachelor’s and daughter degree Erin.at LSU Shreveport and a master’s degree and Ph.D from LSU Baton Rouge. At the time of his death, Dr. Peak was teaching business statistics and production operation management. He is survived ALUMNI GATHERINGS
A group of former members of the DSU Trojan Men’s Basketball team gathered at an alumni event in Sioux Falls.
A group of DSU Alumni Board Members gathered for a photo during the Homecoming Rally in Sioux Falls. Pictured (left to right) Arden Jones, Adam Hafner, Mike Halverson, Jacinda Cerwinske, Captain Morgan, Elliott Breukelman, Jona Schmidt
A group of alumni & friends gathered at Hart Ranch just outside Rapid City for a picnic hosted by DSU professors Drs. Wayne & Crystal Pauli. This was the first alumni event attended by new DSU President Dr. José-Marie Griffiths.
Kelly (Bevers) JT & DSU President Dr. José-Marie Griffiths talks to Brooklyn Pischke, part DSU alumni gathered in Sioux Falls for a Homecoming Rally. of a group of alumni and their families who gathered to enjoy a Sioux Falls Stampede hockey game.
A group of Alumni and Friends gathered in Deadwood to support students from the General Beadle Honors program who were there with DSU Professor Dr. Michael Gaylor to visit the Sanford Underground Lab. Where will we show up next? Send me an email [email protected] and we will ALUMNI GATHERINGS get your business on our travel schedule!
This year we decided to take the DSU Alumni story on the road, and went out to see groups of alumni in their places of business. Armed with buckets of fresh bagels, we visited with alums in Sioux Falls and Madison.
Groups of alumni and friends pictured counterclockwise: Madison Public Library, Avera (Sioux Falls), Vantage Point Solutions (Mitchell), Innovative Systems(Mitchell), Infotech (Madison), Bulldog Media (Madison), Zuercher Technologies (Sioux Falls), Carsforsale (Sioux Falls), First PREMIER Bankcard (Sioux Falls). ALUMNI GATHERINGS
Alumni from Citibank in Sioux Falls gather to meet Dakota State President Dr. José-Marie Griffiths.
A group of DSU Trojan basketball alumni attended a social followed by the basketball game.
Alumni from Secure Banking Sioux Falls Area Alumni gather at Solutions Cherapa Place for a mixer. in Madison.
Alumni from the Bureau of Information Technology in Pierre.
Homecoming Rally at the Sandbar in Sioux Falls. 2015 HOMECOMING
Alumni from Citibank in Sioux Falls gather to meet Dakota State President Dr. José-Marie Griffiths. ATHLETICS Kueter becomes Winningest Coach in South Dakota History Reprinted with permission from Mick Garry and Argus Leader Media them to get it done. Steve Kueter is at his desk at consistent in coaching getting players hyped up afternoon, where he has been the head “He has no problem O’Gorman High School on a Tuesday former Knights standout the number of things going on that Adamand ready Juhl, to now play,” a junior said nightfootball within coach a fewfor 33 hundred years, andyards lists of where he’s sitting. wantdefensive to win back for at him. South you there is a freshman football game Dakota. “The kids really Kueter the athletic director tells That’s the thing – he’s at McEneaney Field, two seventh-grade always had the respect of Gloriann, Sam, Max, Megan, and Steve Kueter football games on the practice field, the players.” footballa state girls game, semifinal and it’s soccer also parents game at But you coach McEneaney following the freshman 33 years, you win almost 300 games. Coach Kueter, how before.He asked around and aimed his suspicion at the seniors from the year performer.night for a play going on at the school much longer are you going to do this? in which his daughter is a featured up.I had to ask. He laughed, knowing the question was probably going to come “Back then 18-year-olds could get into bars,” he said. “I went to this “That’s just tonight,” he says see some guys wearing our jerseys. So place called ‘The Polka Dot Club’ and I laughing. “And where are we? “I don’t know, I really don’t,” he my start in Webster on August 2nd is Practicing with four other teams down said. “It’s year-to-year and it’s been ripping jerseys off last year’s seniors desk,by the you long know jump you’re pits.” getting vintage that way for quite a while. There has Listening from the other side of the been many a time where I thought, you Kueter. At his best when the joke is on in a bar. And I’m thinking I better find him. Ultimately he was the one who know, that this should be it. But the youth around you keeps you going.” out where the rest of them went. Let He’s the second-oldest from a me tell you, I was well-received. New young guy in town threatening to kick made most of the decisions that will Statefarming to playCatholic football family for of Joel 12 Swisher from everybody’s butt because he needs force the Knights to practice where rural Humboldt. He went to Dakota those jerseys back.” they’re practicing on the other side hurry to return, he broke it again and He rounded up 20 of them, all somethingof the fence worth at 41st rattling and Kiwanis. on about He for and broke his leg as a sophomore. In a themwhite. to He wear got throughtheir dark the jerseys. season by mutualknows you amusement. know that, which makes it the game. decided he was done with that part of calling schools every week and telling staff at O’Gorman with the promise we’re over by the swamp trying to get He left Webster to join Bob Burns’ “All that going on,” he says. “And Swisher encouraged him in his first days at school to be a math major A win in that game against Stevens the job would be his in two years. He wasready going to play to beRapid his 285thCity Stevens.” at O’Gorman days,because and they sure were enough, the onlyfour kindyears of later teachers getting hired back in those ended up waiting five on that count with Burns serving as his offensive coordinator for another two. and eclipse the legendary Max Hawk of at age 22, he got a math teaching job “If Bob didn’t make me wait so Yankton as the winningest high school and was named head football coach at football history. long, we could have taken care of this coach of all-time in South Dakota inordinateWebster. He amount went 4-4-1 of staff that turnover first year, the interview a few years ago,” he joked. yearlargely before. unsupervised because of an Valuable lessons were passed As expected, there wasn’t a lot of “Somebody gave me the key to the of any suspense about 2015 being the along, however. His two mentors were doubt involved, nor was there much year Kueter would set a new mark. Swisher, who was a friend of Burns, equipment room right after I got there and Burns. It was a striking contrast in coaching styles. He was consistent in crediting the and I discovered all the jerseys were you know something but you aren’t “You can play football and think players and the school for hitting 285 stolen,” Kueter remembered. “What do 36prior to actually winning it and he was I do?” going to know it like Joel knew it,” ATHLETICS Kueter said. “Joel’s deal was that you persistent protagonists isn’t the worst O’Gorman’s head football coach thingoccasional in the wink world. that suggests having prepare for everything. His entire Steve Kueter is congratulated by family offense could be audibled to on the line members to celebrate his 285th win playsof scrimmage. and you’ll Bob win was and the stop opposite. these Rapid City Stevens at O’Harra Stadium “If you only went to public schools, Bob had three plays. Run these three in Rapid City on Friday, Oct. 9, 2015. understandthere is a suspicion how they about work private so they’ll Kueter is now the football coach with schools,” he said. “They really don’t three plays and you’ll win. I was the most wins of all-time in South somewhere in between. I had two great Dakota history. (Photo: Jay Pickthorn - suspect more is afoot than actually guys to work with.” Argus Leader) areis. O’Gorman going to be is peoplehugely lookingsuccessful at thatin Brad Salem, a former Knight who More seriously, Fritsch said: “His withacademics, a wary fine eye. arts, What’s you going name on it. overThere went on to become a head coach at record speaks for itself. As far as Augustana and is now quarterbacks dealing with the kids, he doesn’t coach coach and recruiting coordinator at football, he coaches people.” there? They assume something fishy is Michigan State, remembers a positive duringA typical the warming O’Gorman up part practice of the begins going on all the time.” presence who got them revved up. afternoon,pretty loose. you’re If you’re not goinggoofing to aroundhear the With a pride those same critics to play“An to incredible a football motivator,” game and keepSalem wherewould behe’s anxious won 285 to interpretgames is indeedas said. “He knows how to get kids ready smugness, he’ll tell you the school look at the stability of his staff over the eventuallyhead coach arrives, yelling though.at you about getting them going for all four quarters. You focused. That part of the practice different than other schools. think that says a lot about how he does mental break before they get down when“The asked type if he’sof kid had we to get alter has his not years, too. They stay with him and I “I think he wants to give them a changed much over the years,” he said One of those who have stayed things.” to business,” said longtime freshman style in three decades. “The kids are O’Gorman coach Ken Lindemann. ambitious – they come from ambitious andwith older him is brother John Fritsch. Andrew His also son played. Luke “ThereEight is hooping,state titles hollering, followed, singing, with all parents. They have futures and plans. is the quarterback of this year’s team kinds of stuff.” They’re going to do well academically, Dakota, has been volunteering with the they’re going to show up for practice. John, a former head coach at South plenty of hooping and hollering. In They’re going to do all the things the meantime, the Knights carved out they’re supposed to do. That hasn’t Knights since 2003. a niche in big-school football that not changed, we’ve always had that kind of “He’s very generous,” Fritsch said. ofeverybody the time. in Over the thecity years or the Kueter state was has kid.” “He told me that first year he couldn’t dealt100 percent with the in jabs love with with humor 100 percent and the afford to pay me. Then the next year he doubled my salary.”
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The Dakota State University Athletic Tard Smith, ’00, was a dual sport 1997. He accumulated a DSU-school Department inducted new members at athlete at Dakota State University. He record 3,606 points to finish fourth at the 20th Annual Hall of Fame ceremony andwas anothera seven-time one in NAIA football. All-American Smith the national meet. Wallace added his in June. Inductees included Max Hod- athlete – six times in track sprint events second NAIA All-American in 1998, gen, Russell Schwartz, Tard Smith, Kurt where he was fifth in the high jump at Wallace and members of the 1981-82 earned his six All-American honors in the indoor meet after clearing a height Dakota State College Women’s Golf the 400-meter dash at the 1992 NAIA of 6 feet, 7.5 inches. Team. Indoor Track & Field National Cham- The 1981-82 DSC Women’s Golf Max Hodgen, ’97, played linebacker pionship meet, 400-meter dash at the team was coached by Rick Sterling. for the Trojans. He was a three-time 1992 outdoor track national meet, DSC established their first women’s NAIA Football All-American selection, 100-meter dash at 1993 national out- golf team prior to the 1981-82 season, four-time South Dakota Intercollegiate door, 55-meters (60-yard run) at the then saw that squad make a historic Conference (SDIC) All-Conference 1994 indoor track nationals, 200-meter run in their first-ever appearance at honoree, and selected as the team’s dash at the 1995 indoor track national the Association for Intercollegiate Ath- Most Valuable Player from 1993-95. meet and 200-meter dash at the 1995 letics for Women’s (AIAW) National He held the DSU school record outdoor track national meet. He was SarahGolf meet. Egan, Five Mary golfers (Egan) – AliceGrogan, (Green) and for most career tackles with 407, up to also an NAIA Football All-American Cameron, Maureen (Green) Casey, 2015. Hodgen was named the co-SDIC Second Team recipient for the Trojans gralDefensive member Player-of-the-Year in one of the most in 1994. domi in 1993, where he was a return spe- Jane (Rajewich) Thomas, captured nateRussell defensive Schwartz, teams ’79,in Dakota was an State’s inte- cialist. All of his kickoff return school third place at the AIAW National Tour- football history. During a span from - records are intact to date, and he holds nament Division III in Wilmington, numerous indoor and outdoor track N.C. after carding 1,051 strokes. The records in sprint events (55-meters, Lady Trojans rallied back from a three- 1975 through 1978, the team compiled 100-meters, 200-meters, 300-meters stroke deficit to claim the AIAW Region a record of 32-7-1 and captured four and 400-meters). theSix Tournamentnational tournament. in Cedar Falls, Sarah, Iowa, Jane, straight SDIC Football conference titles. Kurt Wallace, ’00, helped the Tro- earning an automatic bid to compete at Schwartz was a three-time SDIC All- jans capture a total of five SDIC confer- Conference selection and NAIA All-Dis- titlesence trackfrom and1996 field through titles 1998from and1996 and Maureen were selected to the All- thattrict ledhonor the twice nation in in 1977 defense, and 1978.allowing He through 1998 (three indoor conference Region Team. Maureen finished the onlywas part42 points of the in 1977 10 games Trojans’ (4.2 defense points national tournament with AIAW All- two outdoor conference titles from American honors after placing sixth. 1996-97). He was a two-time NAIA The Class of 2015 inductees join per game). In his last collegiate foot- Indoor Track and Field All-American 81 other DSU Athletic Hall of Fame ball game, Schwartz ran an interception athlete at DSU and three-time SDIC All- members. The 1981-82 DSC Women’s Mentionback 90 yards status for in a1978. touchdown, helping theConference pentathlon performer. at the national Wallace meet earned in Golf team became the tenth team to be him earn NAIA All-American Honorable his first NAIA All-American honor in inducted to the Hall of Fame.
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