FROM THE PRESIDENT

Accreditation affirmed

In the last issue of STATE magazine, I commented about some of the challenges facing higher education inSouth Dakota and the importance of alumni and friends as champions of the University.

This issue of STATE includes a story on the Jackrabbit Advocates, a network of alumni across South Dakotawho have been engaged with the SDSU Alumni Association for the past year, talking to legislators about the roleof public higher education and the value of South Dakota State University and public universities to the state, toall citizens, and to business and industry.

The core of any university includes its academic integrity and excellence. Daily conversations may revolvearound the budget and legislation—not the University’s excellent academic quality—while the Legislature is insession. Yet, generations of students have come to State for a best-of-class education from South Dakota’s land-grant university. Expectations of academic excellence and continuous improvement are the norm.

Three days before Christmas, the University received a nice present—the draft report from the HigherLearning Commission review team that has recommended a ten-year reaccreditation for South Dakota State.

An eight-member team from several universities, including Purdue, The Ohio State, Nebraska-Lincolnand Iowa State, spent parts of four days on campus in early November reviewing our institutional self-study. The visiting team of evaluators toured facilities and met with hundreds of faculty, staff, students,alumni, the SDSU Foundation, Brookings leaders, and friends. Their conclusions from the draft reportaffirm what many of us proclaim regularly: South Dakota State University is “an institution that has aclear mission and acts with integrity.”

Campus leadership participated in an exit session with the reviewers as they concluded the visit. The reviewteam cited several positive attributes that also are reflected in the draft of the written report. These include:

• Excellent relationships with regents and outstanding leadership from SDSU within the Board of Regents system;

• Current leadership that is collaborative and engaging with campus groups;• “Very dedicated” faculty and staff;• Robust learning assessment and student support programs;• “Remarkable” and “sophisticated” ongoing student leadership;• “Exceptional” fund-raising;• “Extraordinary” facilities development;• Partnerships with the city that “represent the very best in town-gown relationships;”• Skillfully handled NCAA Division I transition that has prompted more students on campus during

weekends; and the• Jackrabbit Advocates program as an innovative way to advance the University.

Collectively, these comments are a source of great pride, particularly for the 200 faculty and staff who led thetwo-year self-study effort. The Higher Learning Commission’s review is a source of great pride for the entireSDSU family as well.

In closing, I welcome two academic leaders to key positions at State—Barry Dunn, a fellow alumnus, asthe next dean of the College of Agriculture and Biological Sciences and Brian Rex as department head for thenew architecture program. You can read more about them on the following pages.Thank you for your continued support. Best wishes for the new year!

David L. Chicoine, Ph.D.PresidentClass of 1969

STATEWinter 2010, Vol. 99, No. 1

SDSU President

David L. Chicoine ’69

Alumni Association

Board of Directors Chair

Rusty Antonen ’83

Alumni President and CEO:

Matthew Fuks ’89

Editor:

Andrea Kieckhefer ’99

University Relations

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University Relations

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IN THIS ISSUE OF

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ON THE COVER

Photographed in Yellowstone National Park, this white-tailed jackrabbit is similar to those

found in South Dakota and is the inspiration for SDSU’s athletic mascot. In his article Lepus

on page 25, SDSU alum Terry Woster ’66 delves into the similarities between the actual rabbit

and those who wear its colors of yellow and blue.

—Photograph courtesy of Joel Berger, professor and John J. Craighead

Chair of Wildlife Conservation, Division of Biological Sciences, and the

Northern Rockies Field Office, Wildlife Conservation Society, University of Montana

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FEATURES

2 One student’s ambition

One of the Lost Boys of Sudan returns to build a school in his village.

6 Distinguished alums ponder our question

Members of the Class of 2009 answer a question in their area of expertise.

10 Life in the press box

No luxury boxes are at the stadium; the splendor is in what is delivered.

12 Soy granola delights

Hidden in sweets, soy nuts, and vegetable proteins are packed into cookies.

16 Thought your kid’s room was a mess?

Physics Professor Larry Browning raises office clutter to an art form.

18 Paul Farmer

Overflow audience listens to message of doctor to the international poor.

20 Buffalo Roundup

The appeal of an Old West buffalo roundup grows in popularity.

25 Words from Woster

There’s good reason that State’s athletic teams are called Jackrabbits.

26 Grape research breaks new ground

Anne Fennell’s grape research has worldwide implications.

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As a boy, Moses Joknhial II recalls a simple life of raising cattle, growing corn, and listening to

his father tell stories at family gatherings. Not much different than the memories of many

South Dakota farm boys. But Joknhial (pronounced jock-nile) didn’t grow up in South

Dakota. He grew up in South Sudan, and in 1987, at age nine, he returned to his village of Pajut to

find it on fire, a casualty of Sudan’s civil war.

From that day until flying to North America on September 11, 2001, Joknhial became a refugee

and one of the Lost Boys of Sudan.

Traveling in small groups, an estimated 40,000 children, some as young as five, walked through

dangerous territory in Sudan. Thousands died at the hands of the northern Sudan army, at the

mouths of wild animals, or from the unrelenting foes of starvation and dehydration.

The boys walked for three months across Sudan to refugee camps in Ethiopia, where they

stayed for four years.

Then in 1991 Ethiopian government tanks and armed soldiers sent the boys fleeing for their lives.

The boys crossed the Gilo River, but many drowned, were eaten by crocodiles, or were shot. After

more than a year, the survivors made it to a Kenyan refugee camp in 1992.

student’s ambitionOne

Lost Boy of Sudan rebuilding his community

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Moses Joknhial plans to drill wells in addition to completing a

school so village daughters don’t have to fetch water from the river.

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Joknhial was among the 16,000 survivors. In1993, at age 14 in Kakuma Refugee Camp, hehad his first day of school.

Education changed his life

Today, Joknhial holds two vocational degreesand is a junior at SDSU with majors inaircraft mechanics and aircraft management.“With my education, I have an opportunity todecide which job I want to do,” says Joknhial,who holds an electrician’s license as well asbeing a private pilot.

Education also is what will “change the livesof those boys and girls” in Pajut, a village of22,000 people, Joknhial says.

Toward that aim this 31-year-old collegestudent is raising funds to build a school forPajut. Work was begun last year, when hereturned to his home for the first time intwenty-two years. It was an emotional reunionwith his father, whom he hadn’t seen sincefleeing the village.

His mother was killed when the village wasattacked, a fact he was told after four years as theboys kept on the move.

Joknhial and his father, also named Moses,each assumed the other was dead, not learningotherwise until 2005. That’s when the elderJoknhial was in Kenya for an eye operation andworkers there connected them by phone. Dadtold the son to bring something for the villagewhen he returned.

A permanent contribution

Initially, Joknhial thought he would bring paper,pencils, and pens. “Then I thought why notsupply the [school] building?”

That doesn’t fit in a suitcase and the financialand logistical challenges in making it happenhave been epic, unless your perseverance hasbeen honed by walking for a year across a worn-torn country. In 2008, some $80,000 was raisedto begin the work.

To date, fund-raising has topped the $100,000mark and continues in 2010, according toproject coordinator Rhonda Morse.

ContrastsThere are no power tools used in construction at Pajut. “Ourelectricity at night is the moon,” Joknhial says.

Food is simple in the village—rice and sometimes chicken, withtea for breakfast. “I told my brother, if you give me tacos,hamburger, and Mountain Dew, I would stay longer than threemonths,” Joknhial says.

“People in Sudan think if you have a car in America, it’s likebeing a millionaire. . . . Villagers have one piece of clothes. I comeback to my apartment in Brookings and there are lots of books, lotof clothes,” he says.

Morse, of Sioux Falls, helped foundRebuilding South Sudan ThroughEducation, a project sponsored by theEpiscopal Diocese of South Dakota.

The Episcopal denomination hadmission work in the Kenyan refugee camp.So, when Moses and many other Lost Boyssettled in Sioux Falls, the Episcopal Churchof the Holy Apostles opened its doors tohaving them as a parish in their church.

An American perspective

When Morse accompanied Joknhial backto his village, she became the firstAmerican to stay in Pajut.

During her month in Pajut, Morsefound the people to be “very welcoming,very generous to us. They’re lovely peoplethat just have very little. They’re open toseeing changes. They’re very excited to havethe first school in the village and very opento having the girls being educated.”

A hurdle to educating girls is the rolethey play in families. Girls fetch water fromthe river and grind the corn by hand.

To overcome that, Rebuilding SouthSudan Through Education is drilling waterwells and installing corn grinders. Mothersthat don’t allow their daughters to go toschool won’t get their corn ground. If theydo, the girls can take the ground corn homewith them after school.

A Sudanese challenge

Construction is only done during thedry season—December through April.So worked halted when Joknhial left inApril 2009.

He returned to Pajut December 13.Morse and four others from the Sioux Fallsarea are headed there the first of March,hoping to witness the opening of the schoolas well as help teach the children hygiene,sanitation, and first aid, Morse says.

They will hold a training workshop forthe school’s teachers, who are Lost Boys

that have returned to the village from theKenyan refugee camp, where they learnedEnglish and received teaching certificates.

On the first trip, the school’s foundationwas dug and laid, and 4,000 heavy cementblocks were manufactured on site.

During this construction season 4,000additional cement blocks will bemanufactured, the block walls must be laid,and the metal roof built. While erecting the4,000-square-foot school would be a simplematter in the United States, in Joknhial’sremote village there are no roads,electricity, or building supply stores.

It cost $10,000 to truck in equipmentand supplies from Uganda with driverstaking two weeks to reach Pajut.

Morse says rutted walking paths,narrower than a vehicle, serve as roads.Joknhial notes, “If somebody would justgive me I-29 or I-90, I would be good togo.” Because it was the dry season,drivers could cross rivers and drive indried up stream beds. Small trees weresimply driven over.

A friend Joknhial made at the Kenyanrefugee camp arranged for Kenyancontractors to be trucked in to help localswith construction of the school.

The object of adoration

When Joknhial went to school at theKenyan refugee camp, students wrote in thedirt because there was no paper. “Someonewrote the letter A in the dirt. I asked what isthat?” Moses remembers. He learned theRoman alphabet, how to count to 100, andnames of objects like dog and cat.

But not when it was raining; then it wastoo muddy.

Now as an SDSU student he is typingon computers and seeing lessonsprojected on video screens. “When Icompare the situation then to what Ihave now in America, it’s completely

unbelievable,” says Joknhial, who becamean American citizen in 2007.

As a fleeing refugee, the goal was dailysurvival. “I was not even thinking abouteducation,” he says.

Today Joknhial is working to educate thechildren in his homeland, where hereceived a hero’s welcome in December2008 with the people hoisting Joknhial ontheir shoulders. “It was not in my mindthat something like that would happen.People were so excited,” he shares.

When the school opens, the waterflows, and the corn is ground, Joknhialwill have provided a story villagers cantell the next generation.

Dave Graves

Taking actionTo witness life in Pajut, go to:

www.gallery.me.com/rhondamorse

To learn more about Rebuilding South Sudan

Through Education:

www.SouthSudanEducation.com,

rpmorse@sio.midco.net, 605-334-2557.

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Far left: Moses Joknhial sits in the cockpit of a plane

at the Brookings Airport. Already a private pilot, the

Sudanese refugee is majoring in aircraft mechanics

and aircraft management. Photo by Ethan Swanson,

SDSU Collegian.

Above left: Joknhial holds the pole of a corn grinder

while Rhonda Morse of Sioux Falls, talks with two girls

from his village of Pajut, where girls grind corn and

fetch water instead of going to school.

Above: Joknhial (kneeling) inspects bricks made

during his trip to Pajut in 2009. A total of 4,000

cement blocks were made last year and another

4,000 must be made during the current trip.

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Jim Booher, Brookings, Class of 1969(MS), Service to SDSU

Booher’s resume goes on for pages,but he only needs one line for workexperience: SDSU—1967-2009.

Booher was the first person thatSDSU hired specifically as an athletictrainer, and he literally wrote the bookon his profession. His two books—Athletic Injury Assessment andPrevention and Care of AthleticInjuries—have become the standardtextbook at many institutions.

He was one of the founders andthe first president (1977-82) of theSouth Dakota Athletic TrainersAssociation, so we asked—

Have today’s bigger, faster athletes

resulted in more debilitating and career-

threatening injuries?

There is no doubt that today’s athletes are

bigger, faster and stronger than they have ever

been. This certainly has led to more athletic-

related injuries including more serious injuries,

more surgeries, and the possibility of injuries

being more debilitating and career threatening.

However, there are a few other factors to

consider in this formula.

Sports medicine practices, surgeries,

rehabilitation techniques and conditioning

methods have also all improved greatly. These

factors allow athletes to return to athletic

activities much quicker following an injury.

But this also allows athletes more

exposures to possible injury-producing athletic

activities. Athletes, hopefully, return to athletic

activity following proper rehab. Some athletes

return to athletic activity with less than ideal

rehab and may be subjected to additional

harmful stresses.

Carrie (Lambertz) Buthe, SiouxFalls, Class of 2004, OutstandingYoung Alumni

Buthe, a civil engineer with BannerAssociates, caught the eye of theAmerican Society of Civil Engineers,which named her one of the “TopTen New Faces in Civil Engineering”in 2009.

She serves as a design engineer for the$500 million Lewis and Clark watersystem, which will move water from theMissouri River via 337 miles of pipelineto allow drinking water to flow out ofthe taps for an area the size ofConnecticut, so we asked—

What feat of engineering does South Dakota

most need to see happen?

The Lewis and Clark Regional Water System is

bringing new infrastructure to an area with a

significant need for it. However, oftentimes the

most important impact civil engineers can have

is maintaining, repairing, and rebuilding existing

infrastructure that is no longer capable of serving

its original purpose.

The American Society of Civil Engineers

recently released its Report Card for America’s

Infrastructure. The top infrastructure concerns for

South Dakota are roads, dams, energy, bridges,

and mass transit.

Civil engineers and community leaders

must focus on not only building new

infrastructure as needed to continue growth, but

also on the maintenance of the existing

infrastructure. It is a very delicate balance that

requires the work of civil engineers to do both.

It’s been said, “It’s frustrating

when you know all the

answers, but nobody bothers

to ask you the questions.”

This year’s Class of 2009

Distinguished Alumni don’t

claim to have all the answers,

but their experiences do give

them quite a knowledge base—

one that we thought our readers

would like to tap.

Following a brief

introduction, here are the alums’

responses to a question tailored

to their area of expertise.—Compiled by Dave Graves

Distinguished Alumni ponder the

question

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Mark Clark, Lithia, Florida, Class of1980, Professional Achievement

Until recently, Clark, a brigadiergeneral in the United States MarineCorps, served in the Pentagon, assistinga three-star general in policy for jointcommands established by the presidentof the United States. He is now withspecial operations command at McDillAir Base near Tampa.

Originally of Dell Rapids, he hasserved as director of the Strategy andPlans Division in Marine headquarterssince June 2007.

The 1980 economics major receivedhis commission as second lieutenantafter completing Officer CandidateSchool in June 1981, so we asked—

Would America be better served by

combining the military branches into

one entity?

Each service provides a unique and required

capability that is complimentary to the other

services. The Army is tasked with fighting our

major land battles; the Air Force with protecting

our airspace; the Navy with protecting our seas;

and the Marine Corps with being a 9-11 force

from the sea.

Merging all four services into one would

still require the one large combined service to

be segmented in order to provide these unique

capabilities. This would be too large of a task

for one service to manage effectively. Bottom

line—you would still have four servicelike

entities under the one large service, so nothing

gained and possibly something to lose.

Glenna (Schauer) Fouberg,Aberdeen, Class of 1968 (MS),Service to Education

Fouberg, originally of Ashley, NorthDakota, has become synonymous withselfless dedication to education.

She worked directly in educationfor thirty-seven years, teachingEnglish for twenty-five years anddirecting the Alternative LearningCenter in Aberdeen for twelve years.Fouberg was chosen as South DakotaTeacher of the Year in 1994.

When she left the classroom, shenever left education. Fouberg hasserved on the South Dakota Board ofEducation since 1998 and was thechair for three and one-half years, sowe asked—

Is tax dollars per student a valid way to

measure the quality of education?

I do not believe dollars-per-student measures

the quality of education. There are better

measurements of a quality education. First of all

is an academic measure that tells us if a person

can read with comprehension, compute with

accuracy, and write with fluency. This would be

the most important measure.

Another measure is if a person can

support him/herself and his family. Last of all,

if a person has had a quality education, he is

able to make contributions to his community

whether it be through service or by

contributing monetarily.

Sonya (Anderson) Irons, Lincoln,Nebraska, Class of 2001, OutstandingYoung Alumni

Since December 2004, Irons,originally of Huron, has been a physicaltherapist at Madonna RehabilitationHospital in Lincoln, where she is one ofonly 130 nationally board certifiedcardiopulmonary physical therapists.She also is an assistant clinical professorat Creighton University.

At SDSU she received a bevy ofscholarships that fully paid her tuitionfor her athletic training major and wasselected for a half-dozen honorsocieties, including Phi Kappa Phi,which selects only 5 percent of thejunior class nationwide, so we asked—

How will greater government involvement

in health care affect enrollment in medical-

training programs?

As of this writing, there were multiple proposals

in the U.S. Senate for health-care options;

furthermore, many aspects of exactly how the

government would run a national health-care

plan are still being decided. Regardless of

whether or not we are under a national health-

care plan, this country will continue to have

dedicated and passionate students that are

determined to pursue health-care careers. There

will always be a need for health-care workers. At

this point, although there are many uncertainties

with the future of our health care, I do not think

government involvement will change enrollment

in medical training programs.

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Teri (Robinson) Johnson, Brookings,Class of 1986, Service to HomeCommunity

Johnson, senior pastor at FirstUnited Methodist Church ofBrookings, was praised by nominatorTim Nichols as being “a driving,positive force in the community.”

Nichols, dean of the SDSU HonorsCollege, hailed Johnson for foundingthe Harvest Table, a hot, nutritiousmeal served once a week to 150 peopleat the church. Despite detractors,Johnson was tenacious in her efforts tobuild support for the concept and madethe program a reality about ten yearsago, Nichols stated, so we asked—

During your time in the ministry, have you

seen South Dakota become more

compassionate or more callous?

South Dakotans have become more

compassionate. There is a true sense of

engagement instead of turning away from our

neighbors. I have witnessed people embracing

others, living in generosity and compassion,

asking the question, ‘How can I help you?’

Yes, there will always be those who will

continue to blame the poor for their condition

but I have found the majority of people want

to participate with compassion. It is hopeful

to watch and be a part of a movement where

‘we’ are all in it together, where there is no

more ‘us’ and ‘them.’

Majorities normally don't change things;

creative minorities do, and the majority just

goes along in the end.

Jim Langer, Anoka, Minnesota, Class of1970, Professional Achievement

A 1987 inductee into the NFL Hall ofFame, Langer signed with the MiamiDolphins as a free agent in 1970. Hebecame a starter in that perfect 1972season, when he played every offensivedown and needed help on just three of500 blocking assignments for Coach DonShula’s club.

An all-pro and all-AFC selection forfive straight seasons, the center playedin three Super Bowls and six ProBowls, so we asked—

How would the 1972 Dolphins fare against

today’s top teams?

Assuming the current team would play by the

same rules we did would be the biggest hurdle.

Remember, back in the ’70s, receivers could

be knocked down anywhere on the field if the ball

was not in the air. Today, you can't touch them

after five yards—big difference.

Another rule: We could actually hit the

quarterback.

Another rule: Crack back blocks and cut

blocks were an accepted part of the game.

Remember the head slap? That was legal also.

I would have to think the current team

would be bigger and faster overall, and that’s a

big thing to overcome. If we played by the current

rules, the ’72 team would probably lose. If we

played by the old rules, it might be interesting to

find out. Personally, if I could be 25 years old

today, I would love to try it.

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Jim Morgan, Brookings, Class of1969/70, Professional Achievement

Chief executive officer of Daktronicssince November 2001, Morgan hasworked with the scoreboard andprogrammable sign company since1970, when he was an SDSU graduatestudent seeking a master’s degree inelectrical engineering.

By 1971 he was head ofengineering at the developingcompany. He held that post untilbeing appointed president and chiefoperating officer in 1999. Prior tothen he was named company vicepresident (1976) and executive vicepresident (1996), so we asked—

What would corporate America look like if

more publicly traded industries were

headed by engineers?

It’s noteworthy that there are a number of very

successful public companies whose CEO is an

engineer. For example, 3M’s current CEO has a

PhD in electrical engineering, and Texas

Instrument’s CEO also has an electrical

engineering degree. I consider both of these

well-run public companies.

The fact we put a specific title on an

engineer’s degree implies a specialty, but at its

core engineering training is training on

analytical thinking with a curriculum built on

mathematics and the application of

mathematics to the sciences.

This analytical thinking skill provides a

very broad foundation to build on for continued

lifelong learning as well as a tool to use in

decision making as a CEO.

Esther (Haber) Preszler, Roscoe, Classof 1988/95/98, Service to South Dakota

While working as a nurse inBowdle, Preszler recognized the needfor an additional clinic. John Byers,president of First State Bank of Roscoeand Bowdle, explains, “Because ofdwindling numbers in thesurrounding communities, there wasno financial backing for another clinic.So at her own expense, she moved abuilding to Roscoe, invested inequipment and supplies, and openedthe Roscoe Family Care Center.”Roscoe is forty miles from the nearestmedical doctor in Aberdeen.

In addition to owning her ownclinic since 2004, Preszler also travelsto see patients at Hosmer NursingHome and Roscoe Assisted LivingFacility, so we asked—

As health-care systems continue to

consolidate, what dynamics are needed to

make a small operation successful?

The success of a small, independent practice is

a result of teamwork. Patients are treated with

kindness, respect, and appreciation of their

unique expectations and we treat the whole

person. Trust relationships are developed and

we are keenly aware of confidentiality in small

communities.

I have a philosophy—and am not afraid to

share this with families—that I will treat each

person as if they were my family. I am fortunate,

having been part of the medical community in

Aberdeen prior to becoming a nurse

practitioner, of having wonderful collegial

relationships with specialists, who are willing to

collaborate with me.

I do have concerns with the impending

health-care reform changes, of which

reimbursement issues may impact the feasibility

of independent practice in rural communities.

Vern Schramm, New Rochelle, NewYork, Class of 1963, ProfessionalAchievement

Schramm, originally from Howard,is one of the world’s leading authoritieson enzyme transition state chemistry.

For his pioneering work in this areahe was recently elected to membershipin the National Academy of Sciences,which is the highest honor that can begiven to U.S. scientists. The academyhas membership of 2,000 out of amillion academic, governmental, andindustrial scientists and scholars.

Since 1987 he has been at AlbertEinstein College of Medicine in Bronx,New York, so we asked—

How do you explain your occupation when

someone at a cocktail party asks, “What

do you do?

I am a professor and lead the Department of

Biochemistry at the Albert Einstein College of

Medicine in New York. Part of my job is to run a

research laboratory. My career-long interest is

discovering a deeper understanding of how

enzymes work and using this information to

design new drugs.

Every living organism contains thousands

of enzymes. Blocking specific enzymes in

bacteria is how antibiotics work. Blocking

enzymes in cancer cells is how cancer

chemotherapy works. Our application of

transition state theory to drug design has led to

promising anticancer agents without side effects

and antibiotics that prevent the development of

antibiotic resistance.

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What is game day like in the press box at Coughlin-AlumniStadium? The casual fan probably isn’t sure, however, forthose in the know the goings-on are greatly appreciated.

Resembling a long mobile home on stilts with a slight swayfrom large crowds, the scene inside the rectangular-shaped formperched high atop the stadium’s concrete bleachers ismisleading for what soon takes place.

“I don’t think people have a clue,” says Ron Lenz, who retiredin 2006 after serving as State’s sports information director fortwenty-nine years.

Steve Imming, WNAX radio sports director and Voice of theJackrabbits, observes, “While radio broadcasters are doing theirthing and now with more television broadcasts, we don’t get to seethe busy workers keeping stats and relaying information.

“We just know there is a lot going on and it takes more peoplethan some might think to carry if off,” adds Imming. “Sometimespeople probably do think we are just sitting up there eating hotdogsand drinking soft drinks.”

Look is deceiving

The press box and stadium opened September 1962. Compared toother press box facilities in the country, particularly in the DivisionI era, there is an obvious need for physical improvements.

While space is limited and other venues have heating and coolingsystems along with elevators and rest rooms, SDSU’s press box istotally modern when it comes to services rendered.

Headed by Sports Information Director Jason Hove, press boxpersonnel provide vital information to print and broadcastmedia members and coaches.

“There’s a lot more that goes on in the press box thanprobably meets the eye,” says Hove, “because it truly is the nervecenter for game day operations.”

Pregame information packets, assembled the day before, aredistributed to sportswriters, radio personalities, and televisionbroadcast crews.

The packets contain all sorts of information: team profiles, gamepreview, starting lineups, numerical and alphabetical team rosters,two-deep depth charts, pronunciation guides, conference schedulewith updated season scores, and other general information. The

packets are inserted inside “The Bum,” a fifty-six-page gameprogram, which is a reduced version of the 120-page regular-seasonSDSU football media guide.

As the game clock winds down to kickoff, the press box isbuzzing with action.

Radio announcers settle in, go over game notes, and airpregame pieces. Sportswriters find their seats and they, too, scanpregame information while readying laptop computers forgame story entries.

Conference representatives arrive as well as scouts from theNational Football League. Moments before kickoff, coachingstaff members scramble up the stadium steps to their respectivecoaching booths.

Public address announcer Tom Manzer and clock operators JayLarsen and Dennis Micko—all three with years of service—gatherin their respective areas, making sure all systems are go for kickoff.In an office across the way in the Athletic Department, a Daktronicsteam prepares for scoreboard operations.

For everyone involved, organization is key, especially for thesports information staff.

“Fortunately, most of our work is done ahead of time allowingthings to run smoothly once the game begins,” says Hove.

“Besides serving as the working area for our sportsinformation staff, stats crew, and media, we work with others onthe athletics staff to ensure the needs of the public addressannouncer, scoreboard operator, and coaches in the press boxare met,” he adds.

Friendly, working scene

Press box camaraderie is clearly evident from the get-go.Handshakes and greetings are exchanged, with old media prosrenewing war stories and newcomers making friendships.

Enhancing the scene is food—all courtesy of local businesses.Prior to game time, it’s Papa John’s pizza, and during halftime,Burger King continues its longstanding tradition of doublecheeseburgers. From time-to-time, Hove’s wife, Laura, makes sure“we mix up the menu” with homemade chili or barbecues,“especially when the weather turns colder,” he notes.

Press boxLife in the

Coughlin-Alumni accommodations no

Hilton, but service rates first class

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Sioux Falls Argus Leadersportswriter Terry Vandrovec, who has beencovering the Jacks since October 2006, describes the timebefore the game as “the most fun.”

“It’s when everyone is talking about other games and scoreupdates,” he says. “I usually show up about two hours beforehand,talk to people like Jason, visit with other writers, and grab somefood, which is always important!”

Once the opening kickoff arrives, though, the atmosphere turnsserious, which is how it should be, Hove points out.

“Before the game it’s usually relaxed, providing we haven’thad any technological glitches in setting up for the game,” hesays. “When the game starts, the mood turns businesslike sinceit is a working press box.”

Experience at work

No press box can function without an efficient and loyal stats crew,and in that department, State’s team has very few peers.

The core stats volunteers have worked football games for nearly100 combined years led by Scott “Wags” Wagner’s twenty-five plusseasons. Dave Boline and John Gustafson are close behind,followed more recently by Travis Fenske and Anna Atteberry.

“Our stats crew takes a great deal of pride in their work anddoes a great job,” cites Hove. “I often hear that reaffirmed byvisiting media and sports information directors.”

Although game statistics are generated through a computerprogram, stats are still recorded by hand as a backup in case ofcomputer malfunction.

Each play follows an assembly-line approach with a spottercalling out the result of a play and yard line to the computeroperator. Another member of the stats crew records the tackle ordefensive play, and others track miscellaneous items like firstdowns, player participation, and penalties.

“There is constant chatter between various members of the statscrew,” relates Hove. “They all do a tremendous job.”

After each quarter, game stats and play-by-play summary areprinted and distributed. At halftime and after the gamecomplete team stats and individual team leaders are handedout. In addition to stats, everyone is continually updated withscores from other college games.

Old, but

still the best

Receiving game stats inseconds is of course valued by printand media personalities. However, evenbefore the computer age, hand-driven stats werestill compiled and mimeographed off in plenty of timefor radio announcers to inform listeners before signing off.

Imming has traveled the countryside with the Jacks and stillappreciates the benefits of home.

“Having been to a lot of places, the SDSU sports informationcrew is among the best I’ve run into and I think visiting mediawould agree,” he says. “Other sports information departmentswe visit do a good job, but I would put the SDSU staff near thetop of the heap.”

In his eighteenth year covering the Jacks, Imming wouldn’ttrade Coughlin-Alumni’s press box where action is viewed aboutseventy-five feet above the ground.

“The jump to Division I has found us playing at newerfacilities, but nevertheless, Coughlin remains the best when itcomes to sight lines,” he says.

“It is the right distance from the field and the right level abovethe field,” Imming adds. “Often the bigger venues put you up inthe clouds and the players look like ants down below.”

Vandrovec agrees, adding, “It’s not the most luxuriousaccommodations, but it’s the best seat in the house.”

The Football Writers Association of America once issued awardsfor excellence in press box services, a citation SDSU received threetimes; if maintained, more awards would surely have followed.

“The bottom line is that if the mission of the press box is toprovide services for the media covering the game, which is what itis, then we do a pretty darn good job,” says Lenz.

Crawford Architects of Kansas City, Missouri, has been hired bythe Athletic Department to present ideas on updating or replacingCoughlin-Alumni Stadium, including the press box, as well aslooking at other athletic facilities.

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Are they cookies or a deceptively delicious healthy snack?Whatever the case, these mound-shaped treats are filledwith ingredients that are good for a person.

Actually, they are called soy granola delights. The creations,made primarily with soy products, are produced in theDepartment of Nutrition, Food Science, and Hospitality’s high-tech food processing laboratory and test kitchen facility.

The fact that the treats are both tasty and good for a person’shealth makes them a constant temptation for one’s palate.

“We normally eat desserts for the pure enjoyment and withoutthe pretense of nutrition,” says Professor Padmanaban Krishnan.“In our lab, we replaced the guilt by sneaking in some ingredientsthat are nutrition rich and health promoting as well.

“Like all desserts one has to be mindful of the serving portion,”he adds. “We want to make them as tasty as possible, so we don’tcut corners with the formulation.”

Making new soy food items stems from a longstandingrelationship the department has had with the South DakotaSoybean Research and Promotion Council.

For a long time the council has been promoting the importanceof soy foods through creating awareness and educating consumerson the health benefits of soy.

Soy products have known heart health benefits and complexsugars that function as prebiotics in the human gut. Prebioticsare compounds that promote gut health as food for beneficialgut bacteria.

The soybean, which is increasingly found in foods across theglobe, is a versatile seed that is high in protein and low incarbohydrates. While it has been part of the diet in Asia forcenturies, it is a relative new ingredient in U.S. diets. As Americantaste buds become more sophisticated, a more widely traveled U.S.population is demanding new flavors and accents in foods.

Cold, not baked

Soy granola delights consist of roasted soy nuts, oatmeal, cornsyrup, white chocolatechips, honey, andcookies and creamOreo® cookies.

The mixture alsocontains texturedvegetable proteinmore commonlyreferred to as TVP inthe vegetarian world.The ingredient iscommerciallyavailable and is an

unflavored version of Bac-Os® (imitation bacon bits) that onesprinkles on lettuce salads.

“Soy proteins give them freeze-thaw stability, desired chewprofile, and aesthetics that we demand in commercial products asconsumers” says Krishnan.

“They are formed cold, not baked, and are quite good,” he adds,noting that nutrition students Stephanie DeGelder and SusanWiken developed the soy granola delights in the SDSU test kitchen.

“As a food scientist, I provide the science behind theingredients and then stand back and allow the students to worktheir magic,” he says. “New food product development is partscience and part creativity. It’s amazing what students come upwith in our test kitchen.”

Soy granola delights are a visible and sensory example ofcollaboration with industry, according to Krishnan.

“This keeps us connected to the industry,” he says, adding thatsupport from the council fulfills the role of educating students andimplementing solutions to society’s nutrition challenges.

Another outcome of the collaboration has been an annualsoyfood contest coordinated at SDSU by Senior MicrobiologistMary Gengler. Students win cash prizes for creative uses of soyingredients. In addition, there is a gourmet soy cookbook, FavoritesFrom the Heartland, 2nd Edition, featuring award-winning recipes.

“The soybean has come a long way from an underutilizedagriculture product to a nutritious gourmet ingredient withpublic appeal,” remarks Gengler.

Can be made at home

Soyfoods are found in most supermarkets and natural healthfood stores.

“You can find soyfoods that match practically any need ortaste,” says Krishnan. “People can purchase these items andmake soy products themselves just like our soy granola delightsright at home.”

He points out that the soybean council has looked to thedepartment’s labs and

students for talent and ideas.“The council has

supported our foodseminars, research, andequipment needs,” addsKrishnan. “New foodproducts such as soygranola delights are justone outcome of ourongoing and mutuallybeneficial relationship.”

Kyle Johnson

part of promoting a healthy diet

Soy granola delights

How to make soy granola delights

1 ½ cup (5.1 oz) Textured Vegetable Protein

(TVP)

3/4 cup (3.1 oz) chopped soynuts (roasted

and unsalted)

3/4 cup (2.9 oz.) oatmeal

1/4 cup (3 oz.) heated honey

2/3 cup (4.7 oz.) sugar

1/8 cup (1 oz.) low fat margarine

1/4 cup (2.87 oz.) light corn syrup

1 ½ cup (9.9 oz) white chocolate chips

3 Tbsp (1.8 oz) water

12 Oreo® cookies

In a medium bowl, combine TVP, soynuts,

oatmeal, and honey. Mix well. Spread onto

cookie sheet and bake for six minutes at 300

F. Set aside and cool. In saucepan over

medium heat, combine sugar, margarine, corn

syrup, white chocolate chips, and water. Cook

until melted, being sure mixture does not

boil. Crumble cookies into small chunks and

add to granola mixture. Pour liquid over

granola and cookie chunks and stir until

evenly coated. Scoop with #100 scoop onto

wax paper and cool.

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The Avenue of Flags,

consisting of the fifty-six

states and territories,

represents the country,

which the presidents of

Mount Rushmore

symbolically look over.

–Photograph by

University Photographer

Eric Landwehr

If you’re noted for having a messy desk, for being less than tidy in the workplace,not to worry. There’s a place on the third floor of Crothers Engineering Hallthat absolves you of any guilt you may feel about your messy office.

There you’ll find Professor of Physics Larry Browning who has raised officeclutter to an art form.

No matter how messy your office may be, Browning has you beat. Big time.But before you start to feel too smug, be advised that there is a method to his

madness. Tucked on a corner of his chalkboard, under what is, perhaps, the world’s largest

slide rule, is a magnet displaying Mr. Spock from Star Trek. Spock’s quote: “Aroundhere nothing is logical.”

That’s not the case in Browning’s crowded office where the demonstration itemsfor his classes in physics and astronomy are stored. That explains the models of Marsand the solar system, the jet engine made from a jam jar, the baking soda, the spaceexploration play set, and the welder’s helmet he uses for observing the sun.

No word yet on the scientific uses for the two-ton jack, the tri-pod, the Toy Storybubble blower, the skateboards, the Viking horn, or the margarita glasses.

But chances are pretty good that they’re all used in Browning’s physics andastronomy demonstrations, which he is noted for.

Each year during the Engineering Expo he dons a wizard costume and bringsphysics to life for high school students.

“I entertain while they set things up,” Browning says. “That’s the nice thing aboutphysics, you can show and do.”

Before he can “show” and “do,” Browning must “find.” And he can do that. “I know where a lot of stuff is,” he asserts.Browning has been in the Physics Department since 1990 and in his current office

since 1994. Knowing the history of the office, Browning seems amazed when he says,“Hard to believe I shared this office with someone for awhile.”

When the officemate moved out, more bookshelves moved in and Browning’srandom collection of demonstration equipment continued to grow.

Browning doesn’t need to take inventory to know when something’s missing fromhis office. And that’s happened when items have been “borrowed” in the past.

“That’s another reason for having my own stuff right here,” Browning says.The jumble that Browning calls an office is nothing that a good sturdy storage unit

couldn’t cure. And that’s what he’d like. “A lot of this stuff should be in a storage locker or kept near a classroom,”

Browning says. Until that day comes, he’s happy in the chaos, enduring good-natured jibes from

colleagues and looks of wonder from people who are new to Crothers Hall.Even a casual observer can see that Browning’s office is a place where teaching

happens. And, if he needs prisms to demonstrate the principles of optics, apinwheel to explain color mixing, or a leaf blower to illustrate the Bernoulli effect,it’s right there at hand.

Well, it’s in there somewhere. Dana Hess

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décorNo room for tidiness in physics professor’s office

office

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TELLS SDSU AUDIENCE TO RETHINK HEALTH AND HUMAN RIGHTS

Paul FarmerWhat does it take to make a difference? Living in a city?

Having wealth? Being a celebrity? A celebrity of sorts, who students found to be genuineand personable during his visit, told a South Dakota

State University audience that it takes passion,persistence, and partners to be effective.

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hen Dr. Paul Farmer, the renownedphysician who has worked passionately andtirelessly to rid the world of infectious

disease, spoke to an overflow crowd of 1,340 people for theSDSU Griffith Honors Forum Lecture last November, hisaudience sat rapt listening to his three essential factorsnecessary for making a difference.

Many in the audience had read Tracy Kidder’s book,Mountains beyond Mountains: the Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, aspart of a campuswide Common Read. More than 1,100students talked about Farmer’s impact in light of the bookand their study of pharmacy, nursing, bioethics, or otherUniversity course.

Aaron Sattler, a Spanish major, sociology and psychologyminor from Worthing, read the book for Intro to Pharmacyclass and his Honors College Colloquium. “The book gaveme some inspiration to act on some dreams of mine,” hesays. The sophomore spent six weeks in Guatemala and leftfeeling much like Farmer, who began passionate work inHaiti twenty-five years ago. Sattler says “your heart neverfully comes back with you. He (Farmer) was always thinkingof what could be done. He said we should find what we loveto do, and then do it.”

Farmer’s work in Haiti led to his cofounding Partners inHealth, a nonprofit agency that provides community-basedcare in places like Haiti, Peru, Rwanda, and the United Stateswhere he says many of the lessons can be replicated.

Change-makers, according to Farmer, need to look for aproblem or issue being neglected and examine it not only forwhat’s at hand, but also for its root cause. That might stemfrom a poor water system, the result of deforestation. “Youdon’t have to be doctors to break the cycle of poverty anddisease,” Farmer said. Looking for underlying reasons is vitalto bring about comprehensive change.

Civil Engineering Department Head Bruce Berdanierhas gone to Haiti at least fifteen times to work onbuilding sustainable water systems. He was thrilled tofinally meet the man whose impact he has observed fordecades. “For me,” according to Berdanier, “it wascomforting to see that Paul Farmer experienced setbacksinitially along the path to his many successes.” Theprofessor, who has returned to Haiti with engineeringstudents and graduates to build water systems underextreme environmental challenges, takes inspiration fromFarmer’s model to “stick with it; to keep trying.”

Farmer told his listeners that teams working in concertsolve problems. Living in a big city or being rich isn’tnecessarily a prerequisite to finding solutions, butworking with non-governmental organizations (NGO’s)and government agencies bring synergy to moveauthority and bring action. Partnering with others makesefforts even stronger.

Sara Pepper, a senior biology and premed student fromGeddes, found that out during her summer in Guatemala.She took Kidder’s book with her to unwind from “anoverload of Spanish. As soon as I started reading, I knew Iwas hooked.”

Time spent working in a local clinic gave her theopportunity to see some of what Farmer saw regularly. Whenshe came back to State to be a teaching assistant in the classUniversity Experience for Pre-Professionals, she used herintimate understanding of Farmer’s story.

His story also says difference-makers must work to buildinfrastructure so that those in need can deliver solutionswithout relying on others. “We’re not going to make change,”he said, without implementation and delivery.” Buildingroads to deliver goods and reforesting the land may be asimportant to fighting disease as delivering medical care.

“It makes us a better species to support a framework ofhuman rights,” Farmer said.

SDSU students absorbed his message from reading anddiscussing Kidder’s book and listening to his speech.

“It made me realize that anyone, no matter what theirbackground, can make a difference if they apply their ownskills and put in the effort,” says Marin Plumb, an undeclaredfreshman from Piedmont.

Faculty say it will take time to see what impactFarmer’s visit has on their students, but most agree aseed has been planted.

“Reading Kidder’s book coupled with the visit of PaulFarmer had an enormously positive impact on the studentswho got the point loud and clear that one committed personcan really make a difference in a world like that of Haitiwhere the poorest of the poor have virtually no chance of abetter life without people like Paul Farmer,” says GlobalStudies Department Head Nels Granholm.

“I believe the process has been started in all of thestudents, and others who read the book, that one individualcan make a big difference in guiding change,” says Dean ofNursing Roberta Olson.

Before Farmer addressed an audience far removed fromthe oppressed environments he serves, Journalism AssistantProfessor Doris Giago, an Oglala Lakota tribal member, andCharles Bourel, an SDSU agronomy student from Haiti,presented him with a star quilt. Lakota tradition says the quiltprotects its receiver, according to Landon Lupi, a HPERstudent from Pine Ridge who sang an honor song for Farmer.

“His visit was a wonderful event for SDSU, for studentsand for the community to come together to listen, learn, andbe in solidarity with one of the most powerful thinkers anddoers of our time,” says Honors College Dean Tim Nicholswho spearheaded the Common Read and Farmer’s visit.

Jeanne Jones Manzer

W

BUFFALO ROUNDUPprovides thousands

once-in-a-lifetime experience

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BUFFALO ROUNDUP

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After thirty-two years developingprograms for visitors at Custer StatePark, one might expect to take its71,000 acres of prairie habitat,outdoor recreation, and assorted

wildlife a bit for granted.

Not so for Craig Pugsley. Hispublic won’t allow it.

Pugsley, always a lover of the great outdoors,particularly of hunting and fishing, graduatedfrom State in 1975 with a degree in geography andan environmental option that included wildlife,recreation, forestry, and park management classes.

He joined the staff at Custer in 1977 as a parkplanner, the first ever to serve in the newly mintedrole of developing an interpretive park naturalistprogram. His title and responsibilities havechanged over the years—he’s now the programmanager of visitor services—but he’s always beenpart of the park’s effort to draw people in andshow them such a good time they’ll not only comeback themselves, they’ll tell all their friends.

Part of Pugsley’s job involves special parkactivities, one of which is the Buffalo Roundup.Held the last Monday in September and, since1994, preceded by two days of an arts festival, theroundup has grown immensely over the years,thanks, in part, to Hollywood.

“The roundup really started taking off followingthe [1990] movie Dances with Wolves,” Pugsleysays. “There was a resurgence of interest in the Old

West. I can remember when we had 200 people.Last year, we had around 14,000.

“The Buffalo Roundup Arts Festival once hadseventeen booths. Now it has 140, nonstopentertainment under the big top tent, a chili cook-off, and activities for kids. The arts festival attracts

about 12,000. The people aspect has justmushroomed.”

Buffalo handler

While Pugsley deals with the people side of theroundup, another alum, Gary Brundige, resourceprogram manager, deals with all things buffalo.

“The roundup is all about managing the herd,”says Brundige, who earned his master’s in wildlifemanagement from State in 1985 and has been withCuster State Park since 1991. “We have projectionsof what kind of forage we’ll produce so we knowhow many we need to cull off.”

Some are culled during a limited hunt. Othersare sold at the live auction in November.

Buyers run the gamut from “individualslooking to put a buffalo in their freezer,” topeople starting or expanding an existing herd, tofeeder market producers.

“The buffalo market is a growing industry,”Brundige says. “There’s a lot of Custer State Parkbuffalo out there.”

After they’re rounded up, the animals areidentified and weighed and new calves are brandedand vaccinated. Veterinarians test for fertility and

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pregnancy. Surplus animals are sorted for sale andthe herd animals go right back into the park. Threeyears ago, this work was done right after theroundup. Today, they give the buffalo a week off torelax in their new surroundings.

“We used to work them sooner,” Brundigeexplains. “They were under stress for five

continuous days. When we had a

particularly hotdrought year, we lost some animals topneumonia. So we reworked the whole thing to beless stressful. Now we work a small show groupMonday afternoon for people to watch. We turn therest into a holding pasture for a week just to letthem calm down so they don’t have the chronicstress. It’s a kinder, gentler approach.”

They’ve also discontinued forced weaningand the automatic sell-off of buffalo cows whenthey turn 10.

“We let them age,” Brundige says. “They’relike the matriarch of the group. We let the socialgrouping of mother-daughter continue so familygroups form. It’s the normal buffalo way ofthings.”

This method makes for a happier, healthierherd of buffalo, whether they’re staying put orbound for new pastures.

“Family groups are under less stress,”Brundige explains. “They adapt better and morequickly than just individuals because they don’thave to be socialized.

“All of these things are designed to improveconditions for the buffalo.”

People person

On the human side of things, Pugsley works withvisitors, the media, and a variety of tourismgroups. His education at State, he says, served asvaluable preparation.

“One thing I always look back on as acornerstone for me as an

individual is getting involved in theGeography Convention,” Pugsley says. “It’s thelargest student-run convention in the United States;it was spearheaded by Dr. [Ed] Hogen back in theday. I got involved, then I got to cochair it. It wasone big event, three to four days, with lots ofplanning and coordination.

“If I had to point my finger at one thing in thecollege experience, it was getting involved in thatactivity.”

Pugsley, who lived on campus all four years, wasalso active in residence hall government.

As president of Young Hall and the InnerResident Hall Council, he served along with MikeRounds, the current South Dakota governor and astaunch supporter of tourism.

“Our goal was to make campus life moreenjoyable while fostering events and activities thatdrew students together to enhance their overallcollege experience,” Pugsley says.

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Previous page: Traditional and

modern horsepower is used in

herding 1,225 head at the annual

Buffalo Roundup at Custer State

Park.

Above: Craig Pugsley, visitor

services coordinator for Custer State

Park, says nearly 11,000 people

attended the 2008 roundup, based

on a ratio of four people for each of

the 2,360 vehicles, plus twenty-nine

motor coaches full of people.

In 2009, Pugsley says the roundup

drew at least 3,000 vehicles plus

forty motor coaches for an estimated

14,000 people.

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We’d put on etiquette classes, social events,pigs roasts. I enjoyed the interaction with a lot ofdifferent people over the years. I forged a lot ofgood friendships and memories at SDSU.”

Among the entities Pugsley works with are theSouth Dakota Office of Tourism; the Custer AreaChamber of Commerce; the Rapid CityConvention and Visitors Bureau; and the BlackHills, Badlands, and Lakes Association.

“Our objective has been to work with all theseother organizations to expand our businesslonger and longer into the year,” he says. “Forevents like the roundup and arts fest, we fill upthe entire park and many of the surroundingcommunities. Last year, we had forty motorcoaches to the roundup. Those coaches arestaying somewhere in the Black Hills; theroundup is just one part of their stay.”

Besides increasing visitors, the park seasonhas grown.

Years ago, people assumed the park season ranfrom Memorial Day to Labor Day.

“Our goal has been to expand the shoulderseasons,” Pugsley says. “We open some of ourfacilities full service in April and keep themopen all the way through December. Campingis offered on a limited basis throughout theyear. We’re doing what we can to increasebusiness to the park and ultimately to theBlack Hills through the off-season.”

It’s working. Custer State Park, one of thelargest State parks in the U.S., is one of SouthDakota’s primary tourism destinations, secondonly to Mount Rushmore. Every year, 1.7 millionpeople visit the park and its prairie habitat,ponderosa pine forest, granite outcroppings,hiking trails, campgrounds, lodges, lakes, streams,and variety of wildlife.

Once-in-a-lifetime

Though Pugsley sees these “fabulous resources”every day, the very park visitors he serves keep hisvision in focus.

“Years back, I was standing on the road[where the public and media gather to view theroundup] and a lady from Massachusetts wasthere,” he says. “She said, ‘You probably get todo this every year, but to me, it’s a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.’

“For a lot of people, it’s a very emotional andheartwarming experience to be a part of, to beable to watch and witness. It is a scene out of theOld West, cowboys herding up to 1,500 head ofbuffalo. You get a glimpse of what it would havebeen like in the old days.”

Another time, when Pugsley was returningfrom a board meeting, in a hurry to get back tothe office, he came upon a huge, familiarroadblock.

“Here in the middle of the road stands a bigbull buffalo,” he recalls. “This happens almostevery day. They even lay in my yard, right in frontof our picture window.

“I was following a car from Illinois full of kids.This bull was standing feet from their vehicle.The kids were pitching around to look out all thewindows. Then they saw me behind them andthis one little boy pointed at me, then pointed atthe buffalo; he didn’t want me to miss this once-in-a-lifetime experience he was witnessing.

“It reminded me of just how important thatopportunity is for the guests who come to CusterState Park. We might get to see it every day, butit’s such a unique experience. That’s why we’rehere, to provide guests the opportunity to takehome some great memories that they can sharethroughout their lives.

“Custer State Park is a unique and treasuredresource for our resident, nonresident, andinternational guests to enjoy, and I have hadthe privilege of being a part of this treasure forover thirty years.”

Cindy Rickeman

Gary Brundige MS ’85, resource

program manager at the park.

Craig Pugsley ’75, program

manager of visitor services.

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It’s no coincidence that one of my all-time favorite horror movies is fromthe 1970s and features a story line

about a band of huge, fiercely aggressiverabbits—I’m pretty sure they wereJackrabbits—that roll over any opponentfoolish enough to get in their way.

I guess my attraction to the moviesimply foreshadowed the South DakotaState University move to Division One.

The movie I’m hooked on is titled Nightof the Lepus. It came out in 1972, and itcontained a hidden message that suggestedto me the first time I saw it that the scriptwriter was familiar with SDSU. One of thecharacters in the film is named GerryBennett, who says in one of my favoritelines, “Rabbits aren’t your bag, Roy.’’

I can tell you for sure that many adistance runner who faced State in the early1970s found that a character— not GerryBennett but Garry Bentley—wasn’t theirbag. Bentley, who placed nationally acouple of years in a row in races from 1,500to 5,000 meters, sped past his competitorslike a prairie Jackrabbit outruns a fox or, itmust be said, a Coyote.

Anyone who has spent any time at all inSouth Dakota farm country knows howelusive a Jackrabbit can be. Those of uswho attended South Dakota State knowhow quick and powerful the “Rabbits” are.But don’t take my word for it. Go to theexperts. It’s all right there in thepublications of the state Game, Fish andParks Department. Consider this:

“The jackrabbit, which is actually ahare, sports powerful hind legs with whichit escapes its enemies, running as fast as 30-40 miles per hour and clearing 17 feet in aleap. The larger, more common white-tailed jackrabbit is found statewide. Theblack-tailed jackrabbit is found in southcentral counties. The best of them all, theSDSU Jackrabbit, is found whereverdiscerning people gather for a greateducation and an incredibly variedextracurricular experience.’’

You’re right. I added the last sentence,but it’s the truth, and I suspect it wassimply an oversight that it wasn’t includedin the official material.

Think of it. A jackrabbit can reachspeeds up to 40 mph and leap 17 feet in asingle bound. Incredible, you say? Really? Iguess you’re one of the unfortunate oneswho never saw Sid Bostic rebounding forthe Jacks back in 1963 when they won theDivision II national basketball title. I guessyou missed the speed of Heather Seiler onthe basketball court and Kim Forham orHeather Wollman on the track.

And I guess you’re one of theunfortunate ones who never saw the lateLee Colburn wow the crowds thatoverflowed the bleachers in the old Barn.Not for nothing was he called “LeapingLee,’’ and if you didn’t see him play thegame of basketball in a blue and yellowuniform, you missed a remarkable talent.Oh, he was a Jackrabbit, all right.

“White-tailed jackrabbits prefer opengrasslands but thrive in pastures and

fields,’’ says a passage on the Web sitewww.thejump.net. “This species can alsobe found in forested areas up to highalpine tundra.’’

That sounds a lot like a description ofSouth Dakota to me, from the pastures andfields of the eastern part of the state to thegrasslands in the middle of the country andthe higher elevations of the Black Hills tothe west. If you’re thinking to yourself,“Why, that means we’re everywhere,’’ youare correct. We can go anywhere andeverywhere from here.

Long-time SDSU professor JohnMiller’s pictorial history of the Universityretells the tale of the newspaper cartoonback in 1905 that showed a Jackrabbitslamming into a wall that was supposed torepresent the University of Minnesota. Intruth, just this past fall, the Jackrabbits didquite a lot of damage to that vaunted U ofM gridiron wall.

Jackrabbits can be as versatile as JennWarkenthien, as speedy as Jeff Tiefenthaleror JaRon Harris and as elusive as KyleMinett or Josh Ranek. Jackrabbits can bepretty darned powerful, too.

The first South Dakota State footballgame I ever saw featured a running backfrom Beresford named Joe Thorne, whodied a few years later in Vietnam. On thefield the evening I saw Thorne, he ran overtackler after tackler. He could have been theprototype for the Jackrabbit in that favoritemovie I was telling you about.

Terry Woster ’66Photograph courtesy of Michael Yost ’80

Lepus

State’s, world’s vineyards

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benefit from Fennell’s research

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A nne Fennell’s wine cellar has a littlebit of everything. There areMidwestern wines mixed with

bottles from California, France, and New Zealand. So, if you’rethinking of opening a winery in South Dakota—and there arefifteen of them in the state at last count—then you certainlywant her on your side.

Fennell, a professor of horticulture, and her colleagues atthe University of Nevada-Reno and Iowa State University arein the midst of research on dormancy in grapes that’s fundedby a $3 million National Science Foundation grant.

The research project has exploded, much like the SouthDakota wine industry that Fennell has championed sinceits very beginning.

The project gained worldwide importance due largely tothe herculean effort of postdoctoral researcher JérômeGrimplet. While he was a postdoc in Fennell’s laboratory,Grimplet conducted an expert annotation of the grapegenome and built molecular networks so researchers couldintegrate gene, protein, and metabolite expression (productsof protein activity such as glucose) into a series of maps. Whenhe was finished, he had a molecular network database of 219maps containing 13,145 genes, more than 40 percent of thegrapevine genes.

Information formerly included in miles of spreadsheetscan now be viewed in these maps allowing grape researchers tosearch for pathways and genes related to flavor, droughtresistance, or in Fennell’s case, dormancy.

“We can put all of this data into maps,” says Fennell whonotes that the maps also can be used to study other plantspecies. “It’s a first for large-scale visualizations of threedifferent types of data at once. This major tool is freelyavailable worldwide for systems biology.”

Unlocking the mystery of dormancy

Fennell’s own work has worldwide implications for grapegrowers. Her research centers on dormancy in V. riparia, agrape native to the region. However, unlocking the mysteriesof how and when grapes break from dormancy to start a newgrowing season is of interest at any vineyard.

Fennell explains that identifying genes that determinedormancy can help breeders as they search for new lines and help growers make decisions about which varieties are best forthe growing season at their vineyard.

A growing number of businesses in South Dakota willbenefit from Fennell’s research as wineries are spread acrossthe state. Fennell has been part of South Dakota’s wineindustry since its infancy, testifying before a legislativecommittee in 1997 in favor of a farm winery bill.

Few people would naturally tab South Dakota as thehome of a growing winery industry, but its growth was nosurprise to Fennell.

“I knew it was a possibility,” Fennell says, recalling that shewatched Minnesota go through a similar vineyard growthspurt while she was doing postdoctoral research at theUniversity of Minnesota. “I could see how the industrydevelops and its contribution to the state.”

Money grows on vines

Trained to hone in on plants at the molecular level,Fennell also can see the big picture of economicdevelopment and agritourism.

Fennell notes that vineyards and wineries can have a broadeconomic impact. “It’s not just grapes,” Fennell says.Vineyards often partner with local artists and producers ofother South Dakota-grown products to create tourismdestinations. “It’s a very good economic generator.”

As a relatively new industry—as compared to the 200 yearsof wine-making in California—South Dakota’s vineyards haveyet to find an identity.

“I firmly believe in a region identifying their niche anddeveloping a style,” Fennell says.

While that niche develops, Fennell’s research will help thestate’s vineyards produce the best possible wine.

“It’s our job to contribute to quality,” Fennell says, “andthat’s a moving target. You’re always working to identify thegrapes and fruits that are the best for the region.”

Dana Hess

UNIVERSITY CONDENSED

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Land now used to graze cattle and horses northof the SDSU campus could become adulthousing, a hotel/conference center, studentapartment rentals, and a new South DakotaAgricultural Heritage Museum if a proposalpresented by the University in November 2009becomes reality.

An overall cost estimate has not beenannounced for the project on University landon both sides of Medary Avenue south of U.S.Highway 14.

The Northwest Quadrant Mixed-UseDevelopment Feasibility Study was preparedby the Chicago-based architectural andplanning firm Antunovich Associates incollaboration with the Washington, D.C.,planning firm Brailsford & Dunlavey afterbeing hired by the University in January 2009and after four trips to campus.

Since being hired, the consultants have metwith the Brookings mayor and city manager aswell as bankers and property developers.

The proposal calls for a 300-bed studenthousing development with two- and four-bedroom apartments renting for $535 to $642 in2012. The total cost is pegged at $16.9 million. Aretail component of 33,500 square feet couldinclude a grocery store, a fitness center, a coffeehouse, and a convenience store.

The study calls for an 11,000-square-footconference center but makes no specificrecommendation on the size of the hotel.

Likewise, details for a university-affiliatedretirement facility are not spelled out. Optionsinclude a continuing care retirementcommunity with a range of services fromindependent living to dementia care or anindependent living community that targets ages55-70 and doesn’t include health-care services.

The plan can be accessed atwww.sdstate.edu/about/nw-neighborhood/index.cfm. The Briggs Libraryhas a hard copy.

University proposes changes for NW entrance to campus

Dr. Barry Dunn, an agricultural academic administratorwith South Dakota ties, has been named dean of theCollege of Agriculture and Biological Sciences at SouthDakota State University.

Dunn’s appointment takes effect May 22, 2010. An SDSU alumnus, Dunn has been the executive director

and the Kleberg Endowed Chair at the King Ranch Institutefor Ranch Management at Texas A&M University-Kingsvillesince 2004. He is also an associate professor of agronomy andresource sciences. Prior to that, he was on the SDSU faculty.

Dunn understands the comprehensive relationshipbetween a land-grant university and agriculturalproducers, according to Laurie Stenberg Nichols, provostand vice president for Academic Affairs.

“I am pleased Barry Dunn has agreed to return to SouthDakota State as the next dean,” Nichols says. “He is avisionary leader who is grounded in South Dakotaagriculture.

“He has demonstrated the ability to support faculty andstudents while also working cooperatively with producers andcommodity groups. This is a critical position for ourUniversity and state, and I am confident that Barry Dunn isthe right person to lead us into the future.”

The new dean completed three degrees from SDSU—aBachelor of Science in biology in 1975, a Master of Science inanimal and range sciences in 1977, and his Doctor of

Philosophy, also in animaland range sciences, in 2000.He has produced 169refereed articles orpresentations.

Dunn is considered anexpert in beef productionand ranching systems,particularly on the northernGreat Plains. He is a member of several professionalorganizations, including the Society for Range Managementsince 1996, the American Society of Animal Science since1996, the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association since 1981,and the Texas Southwestern Cattleraisers Association since2004. He is a past member of the South Dakota Beef IndustryCouncil, South Dakota Cattlemen’s Association, SouthDakota Stockgrower’s Association, and South DakotaGrasslands Coalition.

The dean of the College of Agriculture and BiologicalSciences oversees academic programs, budgets, and activities,including the South Dakota Agricultural Experiment Stationand South Dakota Cooperative Extension Service. More than2,500 students currently pursue undergraduate degreesthrough seventeen major fields of study offered by tendepartments. An additional 300 students are pursuinggraduate degrees.

Dunn named next ag dean at South Dakota State

University officials want to add an 850-seattheater to the northeast side of thePerforming Arts Center and are seekingfinancial help from the City of Brookingsto do so.

At a July 28 City Council meeting,University President David L. Chicoinedetailed plans for a $30-million expansionwith a request for $11.8 million in second-penny sales tax receipts. The council did notinclude funds in its 2010 budget. The citycontributed $6 million to help fundconstruction of the original building, whichopened in 2003 and is used for numerouscommunity events.

To make the addition a reality, theUniversity must gain funding commitments

and approval from the South Dakota Boardof Regents as well as the Legislature.Construction is estimated to take a minimumof eighteen months.

Theater officials are planning aproscenium theater, in which the audiencedirectly faces the stage, as a replacement forDonor Auditorium, which had its capacitydropped from 832 to 507 when safetyconcerns resulted in closing the balcony ofthe 1912 building in May 2008. It’shandicapped accessibility also is quitelimited.

The proposed expansion also wouldaccommodate music and theater offices,which are now in Lincoln Music Hall.

Four years after a nearly $10-millionexpansion and remodeling project, TheUnion is under construction again.Work began in October 2009 on a $6.6-million expansion that has been fueled byever-expanding enrollment. Work is to becomplete October 1, 2010, and will add 350seats in two new dining areas as well asextend the Campanile Room, part of whichwill allow for housing of the famedBummobile.

One of the dining areas will be a sportsgrill offering late-night options and the otherwill be a bagel shop with healthy foodchoices.

Most of the financing comes from $3 millionprovided by Aramark, the food servicecontractor, and $3.2 million from theUniversity Food Services account. PeskaConstruction Company of Sioux Falls is thegeneral contractor for the expansion, which isbeing built at the northwest corner of theUnion, originally built in 1971.

The new space will complement theopening of three new residence halls beingbuilt in the nearby Campus Green that willhouse 408 students. The site was cleared forthe $20.3-million project this summer withwork to be completed in time for falloccupancy.

Performing Arts Center expansion on drawing board

Union expansion under way

The new architectural program at SouthDakota State University moved one step closerto reality with the naming of Brian T. Rex asdepartment head.

Rex is associate dean for academics andchair of instruction in the College ofArchitecture at Texas Tech University inLubbock where he also holds an appointmentas an associate professor.

“Professor Rex’s experience in theprofession and as an educator makes him anespecially good fit for SDSU and this newprogram,” says Jerry Jorgensen, dean of theCollege of Arts and Sciences. “His

background, including the recent re-accreditation efforts at his current university,will allow him to bring his experience with thelatest architectural accreditation standards tohis new position.”

The architecture program was approved bythe Board of Regents in June. Rex will arrive atSDSU in March and will develop curriculumfor the undergraduate and graduate programand will teach the program’s first classes in thefall semester of 2010. As department head, healso will lead the University’s application forprogram accreditation through the NationalArchitecture Accrediting Board.

Rex to lead SDSU’s new Department of Architecture

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To the Fishback family of Brookings, it’s a special playground.For two generations of Fishback youngsters, the playgroundserved as a stage for imagination, creativity, and amusement.

On a sun-splashed September day this past fall, the playgroundsparkled with a renovation that represents a promise from theFishbacks to guarantee its enjoyment for future generations.

The revitalized Outdoor Learning Laboratory at the FishbackCenter for Early Childhood Education at South Dakota StateUniversity was dedicated September 18, 2009. The transformationadded a village of brightly colored child-size buildings, a cowbellCampanile, a huge sandbox, a grass-covered rolling hill, a tricycletrack, and a flowing stream.

The Outdoor Learning Laboratory is a series of connected outdoorlearning environments that is designed to stimulate the imaginationof the students who attend preschool and kindergarten at theFishback Center. The playground renovation began in June 2009 andwas open for children to enjoy when the fall 2009 semester began.The newly finished playground completes a nearly ten-year facilityimprovement of the preschool at Pugsley Center.

Barbara and Van Fishback and Pat and Bob Fishback provided thelead gift for the newly renovated playground. Their gift was used as amatch to encourage others to donate to the $292,000 project, whichwas funded entirely by private money.

“This amazing family, time and time again, has stepped up to lendtheir support,” Laurie Stenberg Nichols, provost and vice president

andLearn,Play,Grow

A Place to

Preschool playground makeover

makes campus space unique

The Fishback family—Pat, Bob, Tom, Barbara, and Van—along with SDSU

President David L. Chicoine cut the ribbon on the new Outdoor Learning

Laboratory at the Fishback Center for Early Childhood Education September 18,

2009, amid the release of brightly colored balloons. They are helped by the

Jackrabbit and children who attend the preschool and kindergarten.

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of Academic Affairs, told the crowd at the dedication. In 2006, theFishback family provided the lead gift to complete an expansionand renovation of the indoor facility.

The Fishback Center provides early childhood educationstudents with hands-on teaching and research experience withstudents ages fifteen months through kindergarten. The OutdoorLaboratory is a key component for early childhood developmentstudents, says Nichols.

“The preschool is where (SDSU) students learn how to becomegood early childhood educators,” says Nichols, whose daughtersJordan and Hannah, now teenagers, attended the preschool. “Werely on an outstanding outdoor facility where students canobserve children running, playing, using large equipment, andexercising their imaginations.”

Bob Fishback, a 1940 SDSU nursery school graduate, says playingoutdoors is part of growing up.

“Playing outdoors develops your muscles. It encourages yourimagination and curiosity. It’s part of learning how to behealthy,” says Bob.

Although it was many years ago that he attended the preschool,Bob says he and his wife, Pat, were eager to contribute to therenovation. The couple’s two children, John and Ann, are alsoalumni of the preschool.

“It provides enriched experiences for the children wherecollege students can observe as the children develop differentskills outdoors than they would indoors,” says Pat (Sebastian)Fishback, a 1966 French and sociology graduate of SDSU. “I wasvery impressed with the fact that the design incorporated ideasfrom the children.”

Before designing the Outdoor Learning Laboratory, students inthe early childhood education program partnered with students inlandscape architecture to ask the children what elements theywould like to have in their new outdoor space. A hill to roll down, astream, and a sandbox topped the list, says Kay Cutler, director ofthe Fishback Center for Early Childhood Education and anassociate professor of human development. Taking the children’swishes into account, the landscape architecture students thendeveloped preliminary designs as their senior projects.

Along with providing preschool students with a fun place to play,Cutler says, the Outdoor Learning Laboratory provides manyunique learning opportunities for the children.

“They are always askingquestions—about where the water in the streamdisappears to, about the insects or birds that they see,” saysCutler. “Our student teachers learn how to use these questionsto create learning experiences.”

Van Fishback, who prides himself on being a 1950 SDSUpreschool graduate, says that only positive results can come fromproviding student teachers with a safe and supervised environmentto learn. “It gives student teachers the opportunity to gainconfidence and become good teachers in an environment wherethey can ask for guidance,” says Van.

His wife, Barbara (Berkland) Fishback, remembers student-teaching in the SDSU preschool lab. A 1973 family and consumersciences graduate of SDSU, Barbara says she gained a lot from theexperience. Her three children—Tom, Paul, and Jay—all attendedthe SDSU preschool program, providing yet another reason she waseager to help fund the renovation.

“The SDSU preschool offers the best in early childhoodeducation,” says Barbara, who taught home economics atBrookings High School after college. “Prior to the renovation, theplayground looked like it hadn’t been updated since our childrenwere preschoolers. It really needed it.”

The Outdoor Learning Laboratory is a project of It Startswith STATE: A Campaign for South Dakota State University. It isthe largest University fund-raising drive in state history, with aworking goal of $190 million. The campaign is in response tocampuswide strategic planning that developed a vision forfuture growth on campus.

Playground invites hands-on learning

Young children learn best from inquiry and questioning, says Laura Gloege, coordinator of the SDSU Preschool Laboratory, and the

renovated Outdoor Learning Laboratory provides many opportunities for that style of learning.

“It provides for inquiry and investigation. Children learn and remember what they learn when they are part of a process and they

are a part of answering their own questions about the world they live in,” Gloege says.

The Outdoor Learning Laboratory is part of the Fishback Center for Early Childhood Education—South Dakota State University’s

on-campus preschool, which provides hands-on experience to Early Childhood Education students. The Outdoor Learning Laboratory

completes a ten-year facility update and renovation of the Fishback Center for Early Childhood Education located in Pugsley Center.

“The playground is an extension of the classroom. It’s neat to see the children take ideas from the classroom and bring them

outdoors,” says Amy Ballou, a graduate teaching assistant who has her degree in early childhood education and is currently

pursuing her master’s degree.

Ballou says the Outdoor Learning Laboratory provides the students with more learning opportunities than a traditional playground.

There are no swings or slides in the space. But there is plenty of green space, plants, and structures to spark the imagination.

“This outdoor setting provides them more opportunity for imaginative play than if they had monkey bars and swings.”

Photo above: Bob

Fishback, a 1940 SDSU

nursery school graduate,

poses with his classmates

on the slide at the nursery

school playground.

Fishback is standing on

the slide’s steps. The

playground was then

situated on the north side

of the former East Men’s

Hall on Medary Avenue

across from the

Campanile.

A$100 scholarship won at the 1939Minnehaha County Fair brought Faye TylerWade to the Brookings campus.

Seventy years later, in appreciation of herexperience at South Dakota State, Wade made aleadership gift of $250,000 to modernize theschool’s food laboratory. The Faye Tyler WadeFood Laboratory on the fourth floor of the NFABuilding was dedicated September 11, 2009.

“It was wonderful to contribute to awonderful time in my life. It’s what I could doto give back,” Wade says.

Wade’s gift, along with donations from manyalumni, faculty, and staff, transformed theoutdated food laboratory into a state-of-the-art,multifunctional work space where teaching,cooking, dining, and entertaining can all take placeat once. The $338,000 renovation of the foodlaboratory began in May 2009 and was completedfour months later. It was the first substantialupgrade to the lab since its construction in 1969.

“The Faye Tyler Wade Food Laboratory allowsus to expand the instruction we provide ourstudents. The technology even allows us toprovide instruction and nutritionalinformation to people via the Internet,” saysC.Y. Wang, professor and head of theDepartment of Nutrition, Food Science andHospitality. “This space is a preciousresource. Its impact on our students’ futuresis significant, providing them with a solidfoundation for their careers in dietetics,food science, nutritional science, orhospitality management.”

Wade, 89, grew up on a farm nearCrooks, South Dakota. As the oldest of fivechildren, cooking was a skill she learnedearly on. “I was a farm girl—I learned howto cook when I was ten or eleven. In highschool, I would get up before school and

bake twelve loaves of bread three days a week,using a wood stove.”

Wade’s bread-baking skills paid off in a contestin which she won the $100 scholarship to attendSouth Dakota State College.

“It got me to campus. That was the only way Icould attend college,” says Wade, who worked forDavid Doner in the registrar’s office and at severalother part-time jobs to pay her tuition.

“Those were the best years of my life,” Wadesays. “I took everything in. I was in the chorus. Iwas majorette for the band. I wore a blue velvetand yellow satin uniform with special whiteleather boots. I still have my baton.”

In addition to funding the Faye Tyler WadeFood Laboratory, Wade also has madecommitments to four scholarships at SDSU, whichwill impact the College of Agriculture andBiological Sciences, the College of Education andHuman Sciences, the hospitality and managementprogram, and research in biofuels development.

Sitting at a banquet table in her namesakelaboratory with daughter Janet Wade-Reddickduring the September dedication, Wade proudlydeclared that she was debt-free when she leftSDSC. Wade and her husband spent their careersin the restaurant industry. The couple ownedseveral KFCs in Iowa, Minnesota, and Arizona.

With her extensive background in the foodindustry and her love for SDSU, the foodlaboratory was a perfect fit for Wade’sphilanthropic interests.

Provost Laurie Stenberg Nichols begantalking with Wade in 2008 to describethe impact that a newlaboratory would have onthe nutrition, foodscience and hospitalityprogram. “When weexplained what thisproject would mean fortoday’s students, shewanted to make sure ithappened as soon aspossible.

“This lab is critical,”Nichols says. Thelaboratory is the coreclassroom each year fornearly 200 students inthe Department ofNutrition, FoodScience andHospitality.

In order to continueproviding studentswith the hands-onexperience and basic

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New food laboratoryprovidesa healthy

start

Love for SDSU,background infood industry

lead formerstudent to gift

Faye Tyler Wade at the

September 11, 2009,

dedication of the new food

laboratory named after

her.

knowledge of food and food preparation, the old lab needed to bereplaced. “It was like teaching students to use typewriters in aworld of computers,” says David Hilderbrand, interim dean ofthe College of Education and Human Sciences.

Holly Gasper, a senior dietetics and global studies major fromChester, South Dakota, can identify with her own memories inthe outdated food lab. She and her brother Austin tookIntroduction to Foods Lab together and created a perfectchocolate soufflé for one of their assignments.

“We spent a lot of time putting the eggs into the bowl and notstirring them too much,” says Gasper. “Austin kept looking in theoven to see how it was doing. When it was finished baking, oursturned out perfectly. All the others fell.”

Gasper is quick to acknowledge there were limitations in theold lab, with its 1960s appliances, décor,and design. “It is amazing to work

in the new lab,” Gasper says. “The layout is so efficient and allthe appliances work.”

Gasper’s reaction is exactly what Wade had hoped for. “We were so proud to see how it turned out. Mom cried,” says

Wade’s daughter Janet. “It was great that she could see what herdonation helped accomplish. Pretty good for a little farm girlwho only had a $100 scholarship to her name when she first cameto SDSC. I’m so proud of what she’s accomplished.”

The newly renovated Faye Tyler Wade Food Laboratory features state-of-the-

art appliances, modern stainless steel hoods, ageless stainless steel

countertops, ample storage space, and furnishings. Three different ceiling

heights, accent lighting, and a central circular soffit allow the single space to

function differently for the occasion and use.

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If it wasn’t for Wayne Knabach,Jim Wilcox wouldn’t havebecome a power system engineer.

When Wilcox ’76 was attendingSouth Dakota State University,Knabach, his adviser, told him abouta $500 scholarship for studentspursuing a career in power systemengineering. Wilcox’s professionalfate was decided from there.

“Wayne connected with so manyof his students because we knew thathe was one of us,” says Wilcox,manager of regulatory andgovernment affairs for Xcel Energy inSioux Falls. “He was someone welooked up to and admired andrespected for his knowledge and hisexperience. But we also admired andrespected him for his characterbecause Wayne is someone that if youspeak to him for five minutes, youknow he is a man of character.”

Knabach left an imprint oncountless students during his thirty-eight years of teaching electricalengineering at SDSU. To honor theirformer professor, Wilcox and JimEdwards ’82, assistant generalmanager of operations for East RiverElectric Power Cooperative inMadison, spearheaded an effort toname a space in the new ElectricalEngineering and Computer ScienceBuilding after their beloved professor.

On October 19, 2009, the WayneE. Knabach Student Lounge wasdedicated by the Department of

Electrical Engineering andComputer Science.

“This lounge dedicated to you,Wayne, was initiated, conceived,and implemented by yourstudents,” Dennis Helder,department head and professor,said at the dedication. “I think thatis the highest honor any professorcan receive from his students.”

The department hosted Knabachand several of his family members, aswell as many of his former studentsand donors to the project. A plaquesignifying what Knabach meant tothe College of Engineering, SDSUand his students was unveiled, andthe professor emeritus was given aframed copy of the text from theplaque, which included signatures ofthose who attended the dedication.

“When I walked off this campussixty years ago last June with mydiploma, nobody would’vepredicted a teaching career for me,to say nothing of something likethis,” Knabach said at theceremony. “I fully recognize theuniqueness of this roomdedication—that it was an idea of acouple of students. Theyimplemented it with support fromthe Foundation and then withfinancial support from otherfriends, former students,colleagues. It’s just unbelievable.”

Knabach retired in 1995 and livesin Sioux Falls. A Harrisburg native,

“Wayne connected with so many of his students because we knew

that he was one of us. He was someone we looked up to and

admired and respected for his knowledge and his experience. But

we also admired and respected him for his character because Wayne

is someone that if you speak to him for five minutes, you know he is

a man of character.”Jim Wilcox ’76 electrical engineering, former student of Wayne Knabach

Electrical engineering alumni honor former professor Wayne E. Knabach Student Lounge dedicated in new Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building

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It Starts with

The success of the JackrabbitGuarantee scholarship program hasbeen a driving force behind

enrollment gains and higher ACT scores forthe entire student population. Since theinception of the renewable scholarship in2002, there have been 6,812 first-yearstudents who benefited from the JackrabbitGuarantee. Today, 2,744 students—or onein four on the Brookings campus—areguaranteed at least $1,000 annually formeeting the program’s academic criteria.

It Starts with STATE surpassed $110million in gifts and pledges through 2009.The six-year comprehensive campaign is inresponse to a campuswide strategicplanning process that identified long-termneeds and opportunities for SDSU. ItStarts with STATE has a working goal of$190 million. Scholarships are an integralpart of the overall campaign.

Jim Woster, a 1962 alumnus, will chairthe Foundation’s renewed emphasis toincrease funding for the JackrabbitGuarantee. “In the past fifty years, Ihave witnessed so many great successesat South Dakota State. New programs,new buildings, the move to Division I,”Woster says. “The JackrabbitGuarantee’s impact has been asprofound as anything I’ve seen.”

The retention rate of JackrabbitGuarantee students was 85 percent in2008-09, almost 7.5 percent higher thanSDSU as a whole.

�The number of students with ACTs of24 or higher has grown dramatically sincethe program was launched. In 2001, therewere 495 freshmen with an ACT of 24 orbetter. That has grown steadily, reaching958 in 2009. (The number of freshmen inall other upper ACT categories has alsogrown in that same time frame).

Studentsoriginallyplanning toenroll atmajorcompetitors(University ofNebraska-Lincoln, IowaState andUniversity ofMinnesota) came to SDSU, according todata from the Office of Student Affairs.

Armed with eight years of data thatproves the merit of the program, Wosterwill work with Foundation staff andUniversity leadership to encourage moreindividuals and companies to supportscholarships. “This program is enormouslypopular. My role is to simply ask folks tolook at the impact the JackrabbitGuarantee is having on our state andregion, and ask them to invest in thisprogram,” Woster says.

Woster says the goal is to generate at least$430,000 more annually in scholarships forthe Jackrabbit Guarantee to meet thegrowing demand. “Thousands of alumniand friends of this University alreadysupport the Jackrabbit Guarantee. We arenot going to be bashful about asking ourfriends to do more and allowing more tojoin the bandwagon. The JackrabbitGuarantee is simply that important.”

For options on ways to support theJackrabbit Guarantee, visitwww.sdsufoundation.org or contact Jim Woster atjwoster61@sio.midco.net.

ScholarshipsExpanded scholarship opportunities are a centerpiece of It Starts with STATE:A Campaign for South Dakota State University.

he received his Bachelor’s of Sciencedegree from SDSU in 1949. He spent twoyears in the U.S. Army and in 1957returned to SDSU to teach in theElectrical Engineering Department.While working as an instructor, heenrolled in graduate school, earning hismaster’s degree in engineering in 1961.

During his career, Knabach receivednumerous awards, including the TeslaAward by the Area Power Conference in1998 in Winnipeg, Canada. In 1995, he wasrecognized as a Distinguished Engineer, thehighest honor bestowed by the SDSUCollege of Engineering.

While at SDSU, Knabach developed avaluable student field trip consisting offifteen power site tours, and after hisappointment as coordinator of the SDSUCenter for Power Systems Studies (CPSS)in 1971, membership more than doubled.

Following the October dedicationceremony, the CPSS honored Knabachwith a “CPSS Lifetime AchievementAward” at its banquet. The CPSSconsists of a partnership with theregional power industry and is dedicatedto teaching students through directinvolvement in the field.

“Wayne Knabach positively affected thelives of a significant number of studentswhile teaching at SDSU, both personallyand professionally,” says Steven Hietpas,professor and CPSS coordinator. “Thisaward is a testimony to his impact on thepower community in this region.”

Wayne Knabach and

wife, Kathy, enjoy the

dedication of the

Wayne E. Knabach

Student Lounge in

the new Electrical

Engineering and

Computer Science

Building.

Jim Woster ’62 will lead a renewed

emphasis to increase funding for

the Jackrabbit Guarantee.

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Iwas new at my job at the University in March1968 when Boo-Hoo came to campus to“show us the way,” he said.

Boo-Hoo, a.k.a. Charles Edward Artman, toldstudents and curious staffers that “everyoneshould have their mind blown once.” He was thefirst and only honest-to-goodness, fresh fromCalifornia-with-flowers-in-his-hair hippie toever sit cross-legged in the jump circle of TheBarn (take that, Sid Bostic) and expound onLSD, atomic energy, tectonic plates, automechanics, and what life is really all about.

I remember him, and recall that I wasn’t allthat enamored with the whole shtik.

We were all quite innocent then, before coedscursed or spent time in downtown pool halls.Campus Lutheran Pastor Arne Markland hadhutzpah and a slim budget for speakers, andcontacted Boo-Hoo at the Neo-AmericanChurch to come to Brookings as part of a lectureseries and tell us all about, as Boo-Hoo said,“Buddha and all these other groovy cats.”

He arrived with what I believe was the onlyset of clothes he owned. Tagging along weregirlfriend, Gwyn (who said she was a dean’slist dropout from Cornell), his tepee, guitar,sandals, neck chain with a stylish ankh, andhis little sack of “sacraments” he smoked in apeace-pipe he’d carved.

With Boo-Hoo and Gwyn were two otherrecently declared hippie hitchhikers. They allarrived at Sexauer Park in Boo-Hoo’s 1941,hippie-sloganed Dodge panel truck and livedin his teepee.

The two hitchhikers, who had dropped out ofthe University of Iowa, said they were headedback to Iowa to “plant a garden,” probably withseeds from Boo-Hoo’s bag of sacraments.

SDSU students and Brookings residentswere intrigued by the visitors from California.A long line of automobiles idledthrough

Sexauer Park for a glimpse of a bearded Boo-Hoo and his ankh, which was as big as afour-point tire wrench.

Many came to the Campus Wesley Centerwhere he was to share his hippish wisdom, butthat place was too small, so The Barn wasarranged.

I remember him there, sitting cross-legged atcenter court, his flowing hair a frightful messand smelling of burning logs, his purple toespoking through red socks (it was one below zerothe night before, and his tepee lackedinsulation), and strumming a guitar heldtogether with hippie stickers, like “BetterRedwood than Deadwood.”

Some in The Barn in those carefree daysbefore CNN and H1N1 pulled a hurried puff onhis loaded peace pipe.

Boo-Hoo and company left town, and about amonth later we heard he’d been busted in SaltLake City. Something about his sacrament bag.

A quick bit of research, thanks to Google andDave Graves, contributing writer for STATEMagazine, tells us Boo-Hoo remained in SaltLake City, making it his permanent home. Hewould be arrested twenty-one times, but he wasnever convicted of any crimes. He changed hishippie name to Charlie Brown and continued towear the same brass ankh he wore in Brookings.He shed his sandals and took to going barefoot,even in the Utah snow.

Boo-Hoo organized the Temple of theRainbow Path International and worked to helpthe needy in Salt Lake. With his guitar, hebecame a national recording artist, it is said.

Charles E. Artman found Mormonism in SaltLake City shortly after leaving The Barn’s centerjump circle, and embarked on a fifteen-yearquest for baptism. That happened in May of1985. Six years later, in Northern California, on

April 15, 1991, now a Mormon elder,Charles E. Artman, a..k.a. Boo Hoo, a.k.a.Charlie Brown, died at age 51.

For those of us who were around in1968, Boo Hoo sort of epitomized theera. It arrived on campus, hummed a fewtunes, told us about groovy cats, smokeda satchel of “sacraments” and thendisappeared in a beat up Dodge.

The only two lessons I learned fromall that was to insulate your teepee andwear shoes in the winter.

Editor’s note: For informationabout the author and to read more ofhis work, go to stubblemulch.com.

NOTES FROM NICKS

By Chuck Cecil

Boo-Hoo brought hippie culture to campus

Chuck’s Column is sponsored by

Nick’s Hamburgers

www.NicksHamburgers.com

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Jim Burg knows a thing or twoabout the South DakotaLegislature. He served there for

ten years in the House and two morein the Senate. He also spent eighteenyears in the Capitol as a member ofthe Public Utilities Commission.

Burg ’63 would never say he’san expert on the Legislature, buthe does admit, with a chuckle, “Ikind of paid attention.”

Burg’s experience makes him theperfect person to lead the JackrabbitAdvocates, a grass-roots coalitionformed in December 2007 by theSDSU Alumni Association.

The coalition Burg leads wasfirst conceived by the association’spresident and chief executiveofficer, Matt Fuks. Fuks ’89 broughtto the association a degree inpolitical science and a “naturalproclivity” for advocacy.

Every alumni organization triesto tell its story to policy-makers and legislators,and they all do it in thesame way. At SDSU, Fuksfound the usualmechanism: a list ofalumni and friends whowere willing to writeletters and make phonecalls to legislators.

Fuks wantedsomething more; a

means of connecting alumni withtheir own local, elected officials sothat they could build relationshipsand become a trusted source ofinformation about public highereducation issues all year long fortheir own representatives. He startedwith a handful of alumni and keptthem current on legislative issueswith weekly conference calls.

Jackrabbit Advocates

everywhere

The group has grown to sixty-two, half the number that Fuks

ultimately wants. There’s at leastone Jackrabbit Advocate in eachlegislative district and somedistricts have as many as four.

The role of the advocates is notjust to champion SDSU issues,but to act as trusted sources ofinformation about public highereducation.

“That’s absolutely a very big partof our program,” Fuks says,“keeping our legislators informed.”

And so far, the response fromlegislators has been encouraging.

“I think the program is getting apositive reaction from legislators,”says Jackrabbit Advocate RyanBrunner ’07. “The legislators I havetalked to enjoy getting informationabout higher education and theprograms at SDSU.”

Welcome information for

legislators

According to Burg, legislators arealways hungry for moreinformation.

“I always said, ‘The Legislature isa crash course in everything.’ Wenever get enough information,”Burg says. “We expect legislators todo what’s best for the state and thebest way to do that is to make surethey have enough information.”

The advocates found out theywere on the right track at aleadership conference with fourlegislators. One lawmaker said hecould spot a letter-writingcampaign “a mile away” and paidno attention to them.

“They told us that grass-rootsadvocacy is the best way to effectchange,” Fuks recalls.

Not just a two-month

commitment

That advocacy won’t only be at thegrass-roots level; it will also be a

constant source for legislatorsthroughout the year.

“Our goal is to provideinformation and resources to helplegislators stay informed year-round,” according to Brunner.“Many times groups and lobbyistsonly show up when there’s aproblem. Our group aims to helpdevelop solutions beforeproblems come up. That willmake us successful.”

Fuks saw a need for a coalitionlike Jackrabbit Advocates becausemore groups and interests areseeking the state’s ever-dwindlingfunds. Burg sees another need asmany legislators from the state’spopulation centers don’t haveagricultural backgrounds.

“These days, fewer and fewerlegislators are actual hands-onfarmers,” says Burg, an animalscience major who farms with hisbrother and two sons nearWessington Springs. “They need toknow about a land-grantuniversity and what that means tothe state to have that resource forthe ag economy.”

The Jackrabbit Advocates havetaken a statewide view of theirmission as they speak for all highereducation issues, not just SDSU.Fuks notes that state funding forhigher education is all allocated tothe Board of Regents.

“We’re all part of one bigsystem,” Fuks says.

As representatives of the biggestschool in that system, the JackrabbitAdvocates are uniquely positioned toserve as trusted sources ofinformation about higher education.

“We’re the only ones who can dothis,” Fuks says, “because SDSU isthe only one drawing students fromall across the state and the only onewith alumni all across the state.”

Dana Hess

Ryan Brunner, left,

an employee of

Brookings Economic

Development

Corporation and

2007 SDSU

graduate, serves as

a Jackrabbit

Advocate, keeping

legislators such as

Larry Tidemann

’70/’72, right, R-

Brookings, informed

on the school's

legislative concerns.

bring SDSU’s

message to

legislators

WEDDINGS

Annie Haefner ’02 and Samuel Culliton -

August 29, 2009. They live in Lafayette,

LA.

Jennifer Lantgen ’07 and Craig Hill

Pharm.D. ’09 - June 27, 2009. Craig is a

pharmacist and Jennifer is a registered

nurse at Mayo Clinic. They live in

Rochester, MN.

BIRTHS

Larry ’85 and Yelena Heffley, twins, Roman

and Juliet, born July 3, 2008. They live in

Reading, PA.

Beth (Dylla) ’86 and Dan Omer, a boy,

Boone Murphy, born March 11, 2009. They

live in Lee’s Summit, MO, with their two

children.

Kathy (Merriman) ’92 and Chris Stevens, a

boy, Kingston, born June 22, 2009. They

live in Sequim, WA.

Kari (Elgethun) and Riley Hill, a girl, Quinn

Rebecca, born June 19, 2009. They live in

Chanhassen, MN.

Scott ’97 and Brenda (Young) ’99 Sabers, a

boy, Easton Ty, born July 16, 2009. They

live in Sturgis with their two children.

Richard ’98 and Jan (Ehrman) ’02

Anderson, a girl, Emma Grace, born

September 2, 2009. They live in Rochester,

MN.

Michael ’01 and Becky Blume, a girl, Jayna

Elise, born March 9, 2009. Michael is a

program specialist with the Department of

Agriculture. They live in Pierre.

Richard ’98 and Danielle (White) ’99 Ronk,

a girl, Ashleigh Rae, born June 4, 2009.

They live in Council Bluffs, IA.

Ryan ’98 and Megan (Johnson) ’02

Torgrude, a boy, Luke Arthur, born January

27, 2009. They live in New Hope, MN.

Jordan ’01 and Stacy Mancini, a boy, Isaac

Charles, born March 12, 2009. Jordan is a

farm manager for Jennie-O Turkey Store.

They live in Long Prairie, MN.

Chad ’02 and Nicki (Neiman) ’02 Swier, a

girl, Teagan Rae, born August 14, 2009.

Chad works at BSI and Nicki works at

Avera McKennan Hospital. They live in

Sioux Falls.

Steven ’04 and Tara (Boehnke) ’05 Hawks,

a boy, Connor Jeffrey, born September 22,

2009. Steven works at Kansas State

University. They live in Manhattan, KS.

Sarah (Pankratz) ’05 and Ryan ’01 Raml, a

boy, Owen Douglas, born December 28,

2009. Sara is a labor and delivery nurse at

Sanford and Ryan is a customer

serivce/account representative for

Omnicare of South Dakota. They live in

Sioux Falls.

Andrea (Mathis) Pharm.D. ’08 and Nate

Fuhrer, a boy, Paxton Levi, born June 30,

2009. They live in Sioux Falls.

ALUMNI ASSOCIATION NEWS AND EVENTS

CLASS NEWS

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FLANDREAU, SD – SUMMER 2009

SDSU Delta Chi Fraternity Brock Nelson, Brandon DeBoer, Michael Kendall, Anthony Sutton, Kevin Costner,

Nathan Rolling, Brandon Bausch.

SIOUX FALLS – NOVEMBER 14, 2009

Clockwise left to right: Mike Schroeder MEd ’93, Steven Schoemaker, Erik Amundson ’96, Chris Huls ’99, Gophers fan

Jeremy, Dan Kurtz ’96, Michelle Engelmeyer ’99, Shelie Farrand ’98, Pam (Hill) Schroeder ’73/MEd ’77/MS ’82, Tom

Gannon ’65/MS ’71

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Calendarof Events

February6 Rapid City, SD – Black Hills Stock Show,

annual Alumni Reception

13 Brookings, SD – 2010 SDSU Family of the Year Luncheon

and Program

16 Sioux Falls, SD – Luncheon at the East Side Pizza Ranch (12pm)

March6-9 Sioux Falls, SD – Summit League Tournament Pregame Rallies

16 Sioux Falls, SD – Luncheon at the East Side Pizza Ranch (12pm)

26 Sioux Falls, SD – March Madness Viewing Party (6pm)

April15 Brookings, SD – Senior Sizzle

20 Sioux Falls, SD – Luncheon at the East Side Pizza Ranch (12pm)

22 Aberdeen, SD – SDCA Conference Reception

24 Brookings, SD – Oozeball

May18 Sioux Falls, SD – Luncheon at the East Side Pizza Ranch (12pm)

June9 Sioux Falls, SD – Serve breakfast at The Banquet

10-11 Brookings, SD – 50 Year Club Reunion

July17 Sioux Falls, SD – JazzFest

22 Brandon, SD – Prairie Repertory Theatre

Attention SDSU

Summer ’06 - Spring ’08 Graduates:SDSU will be conducting an online survey soon.

Please watch your e-mail for a link and

respond. Your feedback is important

to the University.

Thank you in advance foryour participation.

By giving us your e-mail, you’ll help us be a little moreGREEN and we’ll help you stay connected with your alma mater!

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ALUMNI ASSOCIATION NEWS AND EVENTS

OCTOBER 12 – BROOKINGS, SD

Celebrating 104 years, the Jackrabbit was the guest of honor in The

Union at a birthday party thrown by the Staters for State.

NOVEMBER 7 –

BROOKINGS, SD

The Staters for State

student alumni group

stacked their support for

the Jacks at the Alumni

tent before the Southern

Illinois game at Coughlin-

Alumni Stadium.

SEPTEMBER 26 – NORMAL, IL

Alumni, friends, and fans of the Jacks gathered at the Alumni Tent before the Illinois

State game.

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CLASS NEWS

GENERAL

Tim Kessler ’79 works at El Dorado News-

Times Daily Newspaper as a feature writer.

He lives in Smackover, AR, with his wife

and two children.

Mark Dott ’80/MS ’83 and Dennis

Christensen ’65 have expanded their

consulting partnership after signing a

consulting and engineering services

contract with 3M Healthcare. Mark and his

wife, Jean (Reding) ’84, live in Littleton,

CO.

Randel J. Maass ’81 is the pastor of the

Evangelical Mennonite Brethren Church of

rural Marion. He lives in Sioux Falls with

his wife, Kathleen, and their son, Zac.

Peggy (Schuette) Schlechter ’84/MS ’06

was elected to serve a two-year term as

president of the South Dakota Association

of College Career Centers. She is currently

the Dean of Students at National American

University. She lives in Rapid City.

Maripage (Dunn) Albertie ’93 is an

assistant director-east area for Residential

Education at the University of Arizona. She

lives in Tucson, AZ, with her husband,

John ’00, and their three children.

Amber (Fischer) Mikkelsen ’03 is an

educator in Hoven, SD. She lives in

Gettysburg with her husband, Andrew, and

their twins, Neva and Olivia.

DEATHS

1938 Lawrence E. Bartling

1938 Constance (Mark) Goodwillie

1939 Clayton R. Jones

1944 Priscilla (Lindsay) Cook

1945 Mildred (Schiller) Day

1948 Loyd Riedesel

1949 Garvin C. Bertsch

1949 Ray A. Mueller

1949 Gladys (Storry) Pederson

1950 Ardith (Young) Olson

1950 Paul E. Tommeraasen

1950 Duane E. Tupper

1951 Donna L. Gamble

1951 Carl G. Moquist

1951 Evelyn (Halverson) Paula

1951 Marilynn (Sprague) Page

1951 Skee Rasmussen

1951 Thomas H. Walker

1952 Donald A. Ellis

1952 Eugene C. Larson

1952 Robert E. Metcalf

1953 Robert D. Edwards

1955 Richard A. Pence

1956 Harriet (Witmer) Bonhorst

1956/MEd ’64 Otto P. Rademacher

1957 Bob D. Breazeale

1959 Alvin L. Dykstra

1959 Marvin C. Kool

1959 MS ’60 Norman T. Miller

1959 Curtis M. Twedt

1959 Richard G. Withington

1960 Iver L. Oerter

1961 Terrence G. Hoscheid

1961 John A. Wolff

1962 Ronald D. Louder

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SEPTEMBER 12 – BROOKINGS, SD

The Nursing Class of 1999 gathered at the Alumni Tailgate tent after their ten-year reunion.

AUGUST 31 – BROOKINGS, SD

Incoming freshmen were welcomed with the Fall Convocation held at Coughlin-Alumni Stadium.

DEATHS

1962 Terry L. Novak

1962/MS ’69 Kenneth E. Schaack

1963 Thomas L. Kelly

1963 Paul A. Lee

1964/MS ’67 Myron E. Enevoldsen

1964 Donald E. Habicht

1965 Walter L. Van Gilder

1967 Larry A. Hendrickson

1967 Helen (Schilling) Johnson

MA ’70 James M. Neal

1970 Cheryl A. Schwartz

1976/MS ’87 Kathryn (Buchholtz)

Chadwick

1974 LeRoy C. Nettleton

1975 Caren L. Bond

1980 Gretchen (Idema) Hughes

1982 Paul J. Iverson

1986 Russell A. Keen

1988 Julie (Nieman) Steuck

1994 Deron E. Arnold

2006 Gabriel J. Koenigsfeld

ALUMNI ASSOCIATION NEWS AND EVENTS

OCTOBER 24 – HUNTSVILLE, AL

Distance was not keeping alumni and friends from gathering for tailgating and a watch party in

Alabama before the Hobo Day game.

ALUMNI70,000+

Founded in 1889 with a history almost as long as theUniversity that it serves, the South Dakota StateUniversity Alumni Association, a private nonprofitorganization, strives to keep SDSU’s 70,000 +alumni connected to their alma mater.

Annually the Alumni Association hosts more than 80events all across the country touching more than10,000 Jackrabbits. Each year the AlumniAssociation communicates with its membershipmore than 690,000 times through STATE Magazine,the Jackrabbit Insider, the online communities,invitations, and e-mails.

To give, send to the Jackrabbits Forever Fund, c/o SDSU Foundation, Box 525, SDSU, Brookings, SD 57007. At the SDSU

Foundation, questions can be directed to Ryan Howlett. Contact him via e-mail at Ryan.Howlett@sdsufoundation.org or by

phone toll-free at 888-747-7378. At the SDSU Alumni Association, contact Matt Fuks at matt.fuks@statealum.com or by phone

toll-free at 888-735-2257.

Jackrabbits

Forever Fund

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WHERE WE HAVE BEEN

August31 Fall Convocation

September12 Jackrabbit Advocacy Leadership Workshop – Brookings, SD

12 1999 Pharmacy Reunion – Brookings, SD

12 Cereal Bowl home tailgate – Brookings, SD

12 West River Jacks Watch Party – Rapid City, SD

15 Sioux Empire Staters Luncheon – Sioux Falls, SD

19 West River Jacks Watch Party – Rapid City, SD

21 Sioux Empire Staters Mixer – Sioux Falls, SD

26 Tailgate at Illinois State – Normal, IL

26 West River Jacks Watch Party – Rapid City, SD

October3 Pregame event at J. Lohr Winery – San Luis Obispo, CA

3 West River Jacks Watch Party – Rapid City, SD

10 Tailgate at Missouri State – Springfield, MO

10 West River Jacks Watch Party – Rapid City, SD

17 NDSU home tailgate – Brookings, SD

17 West River Jacks Watch Party – Rapid City, SD

20 Sioux Empire Staters Luncheon – Sioux Falls, SD

23 Distinguished Alumni Banquet – Brookings, SD

24 Breakfast at Tompkins Alumni Center – Brookings, SD

24 Hobo Day tailgate – Brookings, SD

24 West River Jacks Watch Party – Rapid City, SD

24 Watch Party – Huntsville, AL

31 West River Jacks Watch Party – Rapid City, SD

November7 Southern Illinois home tailgate – Brookings, SD

7 1969 Pharmacy Reunion – Brookings, SD

7 West River Jacks Watch Party – Rapid City, SD

12 Jackrabbit Birthday Bash – Brookings, SD

14 Tailgate at U of M – Minneapolis, MN

14 West River Jacks Watch Party – Rapid City, SD

15 Women’s Basketball Pregame Rally – Tempe, AZ

17 Sioux Empire Staters Luncheon – Sioux Falls, SD

21 West River Jacks Watch Party – Rapid City, SD

23 Sioux Empire Staters Mixer – Sioux Falls, SD

28 West River Jacks Watch Party – Rapid City, SD

28 Football Playoff tailgate – Missoula, MT

December3 West River Jacks Double Header Watch Party – Rapid City, SD

9 Sioux Empire Staters Madrigal Luncheon – Sioux Falls, SD

11 Madrigal Performance – Pierre, SD

Watch www.statealum.com for more events

SAVE THE

DATE!

June 10th & 11th, 2010 - Brookings, SD

Contact the Alumni Association at 888-735-2257

online at www.statealum.com for more details.

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LOOKING BACK Pugsley Union Bookstore

1964

Mark your calendars and watch for more information, including additional events and special guests attending from SDSU

• January 19 Luncheon at the East Side Pizza Ranch (12pm)• January 26 Mixer at McNally’s Irish Pub (5pm)• February 16 Luncheon at the East Side Pizza Ranch (12pm)• March 6-9 Summit League Tournament Pregame Rallies• March 16 Luncheon at the East Side Pizza Ranch (12pm)• March 26 March Madness Viewing Party (6pm)• April 20 Luncheon at the East Side Pizza Ranch (12pm)• May 18 Luncheon at the East Side Pizza Ranch (12pm)• June 9 Serve breakfast at The Banquet• July 17 JazzFest

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