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limbing CHigh Students experience the outdoor life Rock Solid BSU alumni curlers Real Science Grad student researches effects of logging on wetlands T H E L A K E , the L E ARNING, the Life... MESSAGE FRO M THE EDITOR Olympic curling captured the nation’s attention in February, and Bemidji State University alumni were at center stage. Both the USA men’s and women’s teams call Bemidji home, and six of the ten curlers, including alternates, earned degrees from BSU. Skip Pete Fenson guided fellow alumni Joe Polo, Shawn Rojeski, and Scott Baird as well as lead John Schuster to the bronze medal, the first ever for a USA curling team in the Olympics. On the women’s side, skip Cassie Johnson and Jamie Johnson both graduated from Bemidji State. Together, the two squads were rock solid for BSU, Bemidji, Minnesota and the nation. Al Nohner (‘70, ‘93) Horizons Bemidji State University Contents 2 Campus Notes 5 OPC Promotes Spirit of Adventure 8 Will Antel, a Transforming Career 0 Seniors to Watch 2 Research Studies Logging and Wetlands ife... Center for Manufacturing 4 and Applied Engineering L Class Notes 6 20 BSU Foundation Annual Report Vol. 21, No. 2, Spring 2006 HORIZOns is produced by the Communications Office, Alumni Association, and BSU Foundation at Bemidji State Uni- versity. It is published three times per year and distributed free to BSU alumni, students, faculty, staff and friends of the University. Direct comments to [email protected] or -888-234-7794. Editor Al Nohner Alumni Director Marla Patrias Designer Kathy Berglund Photography Director John Swartz Contributing Photographers Jon Heller, Grant Gartland, Mark Morrissey Contributing Writers Carrie Cramer, Jody Grau, Cindy Serratore, Karen Tolkkinen, Andy Bartlett, Todd Feidler Editorial Assistance Scott Hondl, Peggy Nohner Production Assistance The Johnson Group Marketing, St. Cloud, Minnesota Editorial Board: Joann Fredrickson, Keith Marek, Al Nohner, Marla Patrias, Steve Heriot PHOTOGRAPHS, clockwise starting at left: Pete Fenson directing the men’s team (AP photo); bronze medalists Fenson, Shawn Rojeski, Joe Polo, John Shuster, and Scott Baird; Rojeski, Fenson and Polo in action; Jamie Johnson (AP photo); skip Cassie Johnson flanked by Jessica Schultz and Maureen Brunt; Fenson; Cassie (left) and Jamie Johnson. Photographs courtesy of USA Curling, Michael Burns, photographer, except those noted as AP photos. Horizons Bemidji State University CampusCampus Notes Notes One-Woman Play Dramatizes Alumni Night with the Twins First Computer Programmer Bemidji State University and other Min- Dr. Carol Richards (‘8/’90), professor of nesota state universities are sponsoring speech and member of the BSU Alumni a night with the Twins on Friday, June Association Board of Directors, wrote 23, 2006, when the Twins face the Chi- and presented a one-woman show on cago Cubs for one of the few interleague the world’s first computer programmer. games of the season. The planned events Augusta Ada Byron King, who was born include a pre-game party in the picnic in 85, is credited with creating the first area on the Plaza, the National Anthem code that could drive a primitive version sung by the BSU Alumni Choir, a first of a computer. The daughter of Roman- pitch contest between the schools, and tic poet Lord Byron, she wrote programs the game between the Twins and the that could enable a machine to create Cubs. The school selling the most tick- graphics and compose complex music. ets to the game will win the opportunity Her notes were published in 842. Book Advocates to select a participant Philosophical Concept of to throw out the first King became acquainted with Charles Distinct Self pitch. The other par- Babbage, an English inventor known to ticipating schools will some as the father of computing for his Dr. David H. Lund’s lat- get to select someone “Analytical Engine,” an early version of est book, The Conscious Self: to stand on the field a computer. Although the machine was The Immaterial Center of Sub- during this time. Ticket never built, King grasped Babbage’s vi- jective States, seeks to prove information is available sion and wrote a code that could make the existence of a self, what at the Alumni website it function. She comprehended that the some would call a soul, that at www.bsualumni.org machine could store programs and data is distinct from the physical or by calling -877- and recognized that its function was body. Lund, a professor of 278-2586 or 755-3989. limited to user input. Twenty-five years philosophy, said he avoided ago, the U.S. Department of Defense the term soul because of its named a programming language Ada religious connotations and Capital Bonding Projects because of her contributions. Richards because the idea of a soul Forwarded performed her show during the open- might mean different things Bemidji State University has $2.7 million ing celebration of Women’s History to different people. The self in capital bonding projects as well as $4. Month at BSU. he refers to is the center of million in Higher Education Asset Pres- the conscious state. ervation and Renovation (HEAPR) funds In the book, which took four that will be forwarded to the Minnesota years to write, Lund contin- Legislature during the 2006 session that ues beyond his refutation of began March . The bonding request philosophers who contend includes $700,000 in planning and archi- the idea of a “self” is an ar- tectural funds for the construction of an tificial construct, or that the addition to Sattgast Hall, further renova- “self” is limited to the body tion of the facility, and the demolition of or some part of it, such as the Peters Aquatic Lab. This project will the brain. This book is an relocate the aquatic lab in Sattgast while argument that people have also adding space for the Nursing Depart- an essence that is not physi- ment. The second bonding request is in- cal. The book is written for cluded in the overall MnSCU land acqui- philosophers, cognitive sci- sition request. Bemidji State is seeking $2 entists and anyone else inter- million to purchase the old high school ested in exploring the mys- property from the BSU Foundation as teries of consciousness. well as to abate hazardous materials and demolish the buildings at the site. Dr. Carol Richards 2 Bemidji State University Horizons Horizons Bemidji State University 3 Campus Notes Bernie Adlys, 1992-96 BSU Celebrates 50 Years of Hockey Mike Alexander, 1982-86 Vergilian Society Poet in Residence Dale Baldwin, 1976-80 Players or family representatives from 47 Omer Belisle, 1991-95 Dr. CarolAnn Russell Schlemper of the of the 50 individuals named as Legends Greg Biskup, 1984-88 English Department served as the Ver- Jude Boulianne, Sr., 1968-71 of BSU Hockey were present for a spe- Jude Boulianne, Jr., 1991-95 gilian Society’s poet-in-residence last cial February weekend celebrating the 50 Drey Bradley, 1981-84 summer at the Villa Vergiliana located years of Beaver men’s ice hockey at Be- Charlie Brown, 1968-71 at Cumae, Italy. She and the poetry Terry Burns, 1966-69 midji State. The Beaver program survived Brian Carleton, 1976-80 workshop participants stayed as guests early obstacles to create one of the richest Blane Comstok, 1967-71 of the original owners of the villa, the traditions in the sport: 3 national cham- Brendan Cook, 2001-05 Sgariglia family. Cumae marks the pionships, 9 conference titles, three na- Scott Currie, 1975-79 spot where Greeks first colonized It- Barry Dillon, 1966-70 tional records, and the highest all-time Mark Eagles, 1972-76 aly and was the home of the Vergilian winning percentage among the 59 current Jamie Erb, 1989-93 Sibyl. Schlemper led the seminar and members of NCAA Division I hockey. Bruce Falk, 1967-71 held tutorials daily and one evening Paul Ferry, 1988-92 Eric Gager, 1981-85 gave a reading of her poetry in Eng- BSU Named Distinguished Affiliate Mike Gibbons, 1975-79 lish and Italian. The president of the Bryan Grand, 1967-70 Vergilian Society invited Schlemper The Washington Center for Internships Gary Gustason, 1989-93 to act as the villa’s Rod Heisler, 1975-79 and Academic Seminars named Bemi- poet-in-residence dji State University as a Distinguished Grady Hunt, 2000-04 Wendal Jellison, 1981-85 after hearing her Affiliate. Bemidji State was one of 30 Scott Johnson, 1987-91 presentation at the Brad “O.J.” Kennett, 1989-92 colleges and universities nationwide 2004 International selected for the honor from more than Mark Kristo, 1972-76 Denny Lemieux, 1968-72* Humanities Con- ,000 in the United States and abroad Tim Lescarbeau, 1982-86 ference in Prato, It- that work with the Washington Center. Todd Lescarbeau, 1983-87 aly. Schlemper has Mark Liska, 1981-85 Bemidji State was cited as an institu- been a professor in tion doing the very best job of making Jim McElmury, 1967-71 Craig Matatall, 1992-96 the English Depart- available to their students the opportu- Bryce Methven, 2000-04 ment since 988 and has published six nities the Center offers. The Washing- Chris Morque, 1990-94 books of poetry, most recently Gypsy ton Center is a nonpartisan, nonprofit John Murphy, 1975-79* Andrew Murray, 2001-05 Taxi, as well as several chapbooks. She organization that extends offerings of Joel Otto, 1980-84 was elected to P.E.N. in New York City colleges and universities by providing Ian Resch, 1984-88 Dan Richards, 1985-89 in 993, and was awarded the Distin- selected students of all majors intern- guished Alumni Award by St. Cloud ship-centered academic semester or Gary Ross, 1973-75 Gary Sargent, 1972-73 State University in 2000.