STATE Fall

2009

FROM THE PRESIDENT

The challenges and opportunities

As president, I am very pleased to report South Dakota State Universitycontinues to advance, serving record numbers of undergraduate, graduateand professional students, developing new programs such as architectureand clinical laboratory sciences, and achieving record levels of grant fundedresearch spending. Campus facilities in which we do our work areimproving through new construction and remodeling projects, mostlyfunded through the generosity of donors and through fees paid by students.

Student-athletes experienced unprecedented success last year and arepreparing to compete in the University’s second year in NCAA Division I.The Higher Learning Commission is expected to award the University fullaccreditation for ten years in January, 2010. The success of thecomprehensive campaign, It Starts with State, with broad participation from alumni and friends acrossthe state and throughout the country, has been amazing given the struggling economy.

While we have many reasons to be pleased, our students and their families, our state, and ourUniversity have not been spared from the unprecedented difficult economic times. While there are earlysignals of an economic recovery, significant challenges lie ahead. To achieve short-term budget objectivesin Fiscal Year 2009, the state replaced $11 million of general funds in the Board of Regents’appropriation with nonrecurring federal stimulus money. Our University’s share is $4 million or about$480 for each student. There were no salary increases for faculty and staff this year, and stateappropriations to our University were cut about $1.6 million, including funds for the repair andmaintenance of classrooms and laboratories.

The intent of the state is to replace the federal stimulus funds with general revenues that are forecastto grow over the next two fiscal years as South Dakota’s economy recovers. Clearly, if tax revenues do notgrow rapidly enough or if there are priorities for these state general funds than other public highereducation, tuition may have to be increased more than in previous years to assure our University, goingforward, is the gateway to a more prosperous future for students.

Great faculty and great students make a great university. It is critically important to recruit andretain the very best faculty and staff. To do so requires competitive salaries. Securing funds for facultyand staff salary increases is a top priority.

Rest assured, the challenges during the coming months as the economy struggles to recover arebeing met with a commitment to excellence and with a passion to remain true to South Dakota State’score mission of high-quality instruction, research, and service as South Dakota’s land-grant university.

Many positive things are happening. The long-term future is bright. South Dakota State Universitywill continue to be a source of pride for its alumni.

Thank you for your continued support.

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

STATEFall 2009, Vol. 98, No. 3

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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Cindy Rickeman

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Sherry Fuller Bordewyk ’87

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Calendar of events 39

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Looking back 44

IN THIS ISSUE OF

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ON THE COVERA church sits on the prairie of the Rosebud Reservation.

Greg Latza ‘93 is a freelance editorial and corporate photographer located in Sioux

Falls, South Dakota. He travels extensively throughout the country for a variety of clients,

but his first love is documenting South Dakota and the great people who live here.

Armed with Nikon digital cameras, his trusty Mac laptop and a truckload of indoor and

outdoor lighting gear, Latza’s images offer a fresh viewpoint to everyday images.

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FEATURES

2 Trees destined for fiery end find salvation

SDSU Student creates beauty from throwaway lumber.

4 SDSU to celebrate Nobel hero

University plans symposium to draw focus back to Theodore Schultz.

8 Looking for a cure

Researchers study red sea coral’s cancer fighting agents.

10 You didn’t learn that at State

College prepares graduates for many things, but it can’t cover everything.

18 Take it in. Treasure it. Share it.

Carol Peterson talks about her treasured life.

22 More than just a dorm

A place of legends, Hansen Hall is home to fun and community.

37 Making a difference

Jackrabbits give back.

43 West River Jacks

Official alumni chapter formed West River.

Correction: in the last issue of STATE, the images of rodeo brothers Tyler and Owen

Fagerhaug were provided by Cowboy Images, www.CowboyImages.net.

Trees destined for

end find salvation

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Trees destined for

end find salvation

Considering thathe grew up acrossthe street from the homeof Jay Sterling Morton, theman who founded Arbor Day, itshould come as no surprise that today,Matt Lagerstrom is busy rescuing treesfrom ruin.

“I had to walk through the park by Arbor Lodge everyday to get to school, so it kind of rubbed off on me,”Lagerstrom says.

Growing up in Nebraska City, Nebraska, he also workedthe family tree farm with his dad and got his share of hands-on experience as a young carpenter.

“A forced hobby was to rebuild the houses that we movedinto,” he says. “There were a lot of them.”

Those early influences and his full-time studies atState—he’s earning a degree in biology with an emphasison forestry management—have gone a long way towardthe success of his full-time tree and sawmill business, LB3Forestry, in White, South Dakota.

Many of the region’s shelterbelts, planted byhomesteaders in the 1880s for protection from therelentless prairie winds and during the 1930s to reduce theeffects of the Dust Bowl, are dead, diseased, damaged, ordying. Rather than watch those trees burn as firewood,Lagerstrom removes them and saves the lumber to usehimself or to sell to custom craftsmen.

Take the cedar logs he rescued from a shelterbelt nearColton, for example.

“They were planted on the original homestead, 125 yearsago—that’s how many rings I could count,” Lagerstrom said.“The farmer was going to put it in a pile and burn it.”

Lagerstrom, who will graduate in May 2010, charges forremoving the trees, but deducts the value of the logs fromhis final fee.

“I’m currently comfortable working on football field-sizedareas,” he says. “This would define an area around a smallhomestead or a grove behind an urban house. As thecompany grows, I intend to be able to handle a belt of any sizecommon to the area. The largest that I’ve seen so far was amile long and 250 feet wide. Due to equipment needs and themanpower needed to tackle a belt that large, it’s on my five-years-out list.”

Lagerstrom’s sawmill, custom made and portable, is ararity in these parts.

“In thenortheast part ofthe state, I’m it,” he says.“There’s a sawmill in Sioux Falls,but people bring their wood to them. Amobile saw is very unique in this part of thecountry.”

LB3 is short for Little Brown Bear Boatworks, so namedfor a small, plastic bear Lagerstrom found in 1996 whileworking at a Boy Scout camp. He kept the bear, took itaround the world twice, and now carts it along on every job.

The boatworks part of the name indicates Lagerstrom’swinter hobby. For two months every summer—minus twoweeks for Army National Guard camp and two weeks for BoyScout camp—he’s busy harvesting trees. In the winter, hebuilds wooden canoes and kayaks.

It takes him four to five months to build a canoe and “acheap one” costs $8,000. So far, he’s built one kayak, threecanoes, and many mini models, which he always constructsfirst to ensure he and the customer are of like minds.

A certified arborist since June 2008, Lagerstrom alsodoes custom sawmilling.

“As long as it’s native to this area, I can supply it,” he says.“Around here, you find black walnut, green ash, red cedar,ponderosa pine, cottonwood, and some silver maple. Mostcolonial furniture is made of silver maple; it has a straightgrain and is easy to work with.”

When a tree has met its demise, he takes it to heart. But hefinds fulfillment in giving it new life.

Indicating a wheelbarrow full of end pieces, he recalls thebeautiful birch tree they once comprised.

“That was a sad tree to cut down,” he says. “A ladycalled. She’d planted it with her son fifteen years ago. It didwell, then the drought. The poor thing died. But it’s goingon to serve another purpose. A school teacher half a blockdown will use them in her art class for a wood-carving andwood-burning project.”

Cindy Rickeman

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The historic work of SDSU graduate and Nobel Prizewinner Theodore Schultz ’28 will be observed oncampus in recognition of the thirtieth anniversary of

Schultz’s honor.The Dr. Ted Schultz Commemorative Symposium will be

Tuesday and Wednesday, October 6-7, in the VolstorffBallroom in The Union to focus attention on Schultz, whowas born and buried in Badger but spent most of his career atthe University of Chicago.

The keynote speech is 7:30 p.m. October 6 with paneldiscussions the following day. The October 7 schedule: 8a.m.—opening remarks, 9 a.m.—panel on the Life and Worksof Dr. Theodore Schulz, 11 a.m.—panel on UnderstandingSchultz’s Human Capital Theory, 2 p.m.—panel on thePresent-Day Relevance of Professor Schultz’s Research inDomestic and Global Affairs.

Farm work, not homework

Growing up on a 560-acre farm four miles northwest ofBadger in the early decades of the 20th century, Schultz facedan ironic barrier.

Schultz (1902-98) would win the 1979 Nobel Prize ineconomics for his theories on advancing productivity indeveloping countries by educating young adults and hisadvocacy for investing in people.

Yet when the son of Henry and Anna Schultz was in eighth-grade, his dad decided enough time had been spent in KingsburyCounty Schoolhouse No. 19.

“His father’s view was that if his eldest son left the farm andcontinued to get education, he wouldn’t come back,” explainsPaul Schultz, the son of the Nobel Prize winner.

This would have been in 1916, during the Great World War,when many of the farmhands were working the fields in Flandersand elsewhere in Europe.

So high school was not part of the life of one who wouldbecome known for his academic achievements. In the late teenshe was known more for the sweat that developed on his browthan the ideas that developed inside his brain.

Saving for college

Schultz’ oldest child, Elaine Glickman, remembers her fathersaying that he and his brother Hank worked with his father’screw and equipment to thresh grain for his neighbors with themoney going to Henry Schultz.

“Later on he paid my grandpa for the use of the equipmentand was able to save money to go to college,” says Glickman,now of suburban Chicago.

Adds son Paul Schultz of Madison, Connecticut, “He hopedhe could pass [the college’s] exams and get in. He did.”

When Schultz came to State, it wasn’t to enroll in atraditional four-year program, but in the Aggie School, athree-year high school program that met for four months ayear during the winter.

He reminisced about his college years at the beginning of anSDSU economic symposium speech in September 1981.

“It will be sixty years in November when I, with no highschool, unprepared, and unsophisticated, was allowed to enterAggie School. The faculty no doubt hoped and prayed for me.Six years later, Professor M.R. Benedict shipped me off to theUniversity of Wisconsin, assuring me that it had beenordained that South Dakota State would grant me abachelor’s degree later,” Schultz said.

Not only would Schultz receive his bachelor’s degree fromState in 1928, he also would receive an honorary doctorate ofscience degree from the College in 1959.

Dave GravesEditor’s note: For an expanded story on the life of Ted Schultz, go tohttp://www.statealum.com and click on “Stay Connected.”

THEODORE SCHULTZSymposium to draw focus back on Schultz

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Honoring those alumni who have distinguished themselves as leaders in the SDSU community and beyond. Join us to celebrate the legacy and leadership these

outstanding distinguished alumni have shown.

These individuals will receive prestigious recognition from their alma mater for their accomplishments and achievements. They

join 287 other alumni as part of the SherwoodO. Berg Distinguished Alumni Hall of Honor,

located in the Tompkins Alumni Center.

Jim Booher MS ’69Outstanding Service to SDSU

Carrie Buthe ’04Outstanding Young Alumni

Mark Clark ’80Outstanding Professional Achievement

Glenna Fouberg MEd ’68Outstanding Service to Education

Sonya Irons ’01 Outstanding Young Alumni

Teri Johnson ’86Outstanding Service to Home Community

Jim Langer ’70Outstanding Professional Achievement

Jim Morgan ’69/MS ’70Outstanding Professional Achievement

Esther Presler ’88/MS ’95Outstanding Service to South Dakota

Vern Schramm ’63Outstanding Professional Achievement

Friday,October 23, 2009

Shamrock Banquet Hall1104 22nd Avenue South

Brookings, SD

5:30 p.m. - Social Hour6:30 p.m. - Dinner and Awards Program

Tickets are $30/person and can be purchasedthrough the SDSU Alumni Association online or

by calling 888-735-2257.

We request that all reservations and payments bemade by October 14, 2009.

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Dorm life

If it hadn’t been for the Turkish towels, I’d havehad nothing to fret over as I packed for collegein the late summer of 1963. I was an

experienced hand, you see, a sophomore headingfor South Dakota State College after a year at aprivate school out of state. That first school had agood reputation and was located in a large city. Inever felt at home, though, not on campus or inthe community. From the day I moved into BrownHall in 1963, State felt like home.

My best friend from third grade on, a transferstudent like me (each of us made a mistake in ourfirst choice of colleges), had agreed to be myroommate. As we prepared for a year in Room 428Brown, we read through the helpful material thecollege mailed to new and transferring students.Among the hints (and I wish I could find thebrochure to get the wording exact) was the notethat many State students brightened up theirdormitory rooms by covering their dresser topswith “colorful Turkish towels.”

Try as we might, my friend and I were unable tolocate any Turkish towels in Chamberlain. Webought the next best thing—some JC Penney bathtowels in bright stripes. If the RAs were going towrite us up for phony towels, so be it.

The towel story shows how things have changedsince I headed off to South Dakota State forty-sixyears ago. The colorful towels were about the only

personal touch a student could make toa dorm room. The single beds werebolted to the floors. The desks, one oneach side of the south-facing window,were bolted in place. The shelvesabove each desk were fixed. I can’trecall if the four-drawer dressersthat occupied the space between theend of the beds and the closets thatflanked the door were fixed to thefloor or not. Didn’t matter. Therewas no place to move them.

We brought clothing, towelsand bedding, and that was aboutit. I had a manual typewriterand a wind-up clock. Myroommate had a transistor

radio and an electric clock. If we wanted to watchtelevision, there was a set in the main lobby fourfloors down. The telephone was four floors down,too, and whether you got a phone call from yourmom depended on whether the guys watching TVbothered to answer and then bothered to climb thestairs to look for you. Coffee was available in theJungle at the student union across campus.Refrigerators? Microwaves? Video games?Computers? Get serious. The major amenity in thedorm was the milk machine in the basement nearthe ironing board. (Washers and driers were justoff campus at the Bunny Wash.)

My junior year, I lived on the bottom floor inHarding Hall. My little sister, a freshman, lived inWecota or Wenona, one of those women’s dormson Medary. All the stuff from each of our rooms fitinto the back seat and trunk of my 1957 Chevywhen we left campus for home that summer.

Scroll ahead to the fall of 1986, I filled a rentaltrailer and the back of my minivan with the stuffmy freshman daughter took to South DakotaState University. She moved into Mathews Hall,and as I carried one armload after another up thestairs, I noted—in addition to the fact that therewere male students running all over the women’sfloor—that almost every room had a television, acouch, a refrigerator, a microwave and at least onephone. Some rooms had couches and recliners.None of the rooms I saw had a bed anywherenear the floor. As I watched a couple of otherdads out on the dorm lawn attacking piles oflumber with power saws and drills to craft loftsfor their children’s rooms, I gave thanks that mydaughter’s roommate was an upperclassman whoalready had the lofts in place.

When Nancy and I left our daughter’s roomthat day, she had her stuffed animals, musicmachine, posters, pennants and other personaltouches in place. Her dorm room had all thecomforts of home.

You know what? Even with all the “things’’ shewas able to bring to campus, there’s no way herroom felt any more like home than Brown Hall didto me, JC Penney towels and all.

Terry Woster ’66

Spartan but it felt like home

Terry Woster ’66

The Lost Ladybug ProjectScientists from the South Dakota Cooperative Extension Service and

the USDA’s North Central Agricultural Research Laboratory want

“citizen scientists” to search for ladybugs during the summer and fall

months. The project seeks to find out why certain species, like the

nine-spotted lady beetle, have become less common over the last

twenty years. The Lost Ladybug Project received $2 million in

funding through the National Science Foundation, and it involves

Cornell University, USDA’s North Central Agricultural Research

Laboratory, the University of Georgia, and SDSU. More information

about the project, including images of various rare species found, is

available at http://lostladybug.org. Photograph of seven-spotted ladybug

courtesy of Jon Kieckhefer

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If research turns golden, the next generation of sunscreenwill be nothing like what’s being purchased today. SPFratings won’t matter because “a little dab” will be more

than enough in protecting people from the harmful affects ofthe sun’s ultraviolet rays.

More importantly, though, the product being researched has apossible use in the prevention of skin cancer and could potentiallybe used in therapies to actually treat skin cancer.

Making headlines in the laboratory is sarcophine-diol, aderivative of the substance sarcophine found in soft coral from theRed Sea, an inlet of the Indian Ocean between Africa and Asia.

“It’s very strong, like 1,000 times morepotent than other molecules beinginvestigated,” says Distinguished ProfessorChandradhar Dwivedi, who heads SDSU’sDepartment of Pharmaceutical Sciences.“If it gets on the market, you only need avery small amount.”

“We are finding that sarcophine-diolmay be used for both chemopreventionand as a chemotherapeutic agent,” addsDwivedi. “Diol refers to the chemicalstructure of sarcophine.”

Dwivedi is heading the investigation along with Hesham Fahmy,an associate professor of pharmaceutical sciences, who is actuallythe team’s principle investigator.

Peruvian graduate student Ruth Guillermo is assisting theprofessors on the research. She joins a list of former SDSUgraduate student assistants, and researchers from Pittsburg andCairo, on the project.

Cancer cells beware

The scientists are exploring sarcophine-diol’s potential to inhibitcell growth of cancers, and also it’s potential to induce orderly,programmed cell death of skin cancer cells.

The research has been taking place on a daily basis at SDSUfor the last five years, and it may take another ten years or sobefore any definitive results and commercialization ideassurface, says Dwivedi.

“It’s very rewarding work, not only for us, but for SDSU,” hesays. “It’s a very slow process, but I would say potentially it couldbe used by people down the road.”

Bolstering the research was a $216,750 grant from the NationalInstitutes of Health to further the study through 2012. After that,“We will compile our data, apply again, and hopefully get a largergrant next time,” remarks Dwivedi.

For Fahmy, researching sarcophine-diol is nothing new,having first worked on the project when he was at theUniversity of Mississippi.

“We are all very excited,” says Fahmy. “It’s very rewardingwork. Every day working on this project is one day we comecloser to a cure.”

Initially working with mice and rats, researchers have nowapplied sarcophine-diol to cells taken fromhuman cancer patients.

The team found that treating humanskin cells with different concentrations ofsarcophine-diol for different lengths oftime reduced the viability of cancer cells ineach case. Related work showed that thecoral substance also inhibited theproliferation or uncontrolled growth ofcancer cells.

Healthy cells remain safe

In addition, their work showed that sarcophine-diol induced“apoptosis” or programmed cell death in cancer cells. The extent ofapoptosis observed in different treatments in the study wascorrelated to the level of sarcophine-diol used, according toDwivedi.

What they found heartening was that sarcophine-diol did notinduce “necrosis” or premature death of healthy cells.

“That is an important finding because it suggests sarcophine-diol could be used in treatments that specifically target cancer cellswithout damaging nearby healthy cells,” points out Dwivedi.

The National Institutes of Health funding allows research tocontinue in experimental animal models. Control groups willreceive doses of ultraviolet rays for thirty weeks, and test groupswill receive topical sarcophine-diol as well as ultraviolet rays.

“Further investigations in experimental models and in cellculture studies are needed to explore sarcophine-diol in action,”says Dwivedi. “At some point, we could move on to human trial.”

Kyle Johnson

look to red sea coralTHE BATTLE AGAINST SKIN CANCER:

“It’s very rewarding work. Every dayworking on this project is one day

we come closer to a cure.”

Sarcophyton glaucum found off the coast of Cabilao Island in the

Philippines is in the same coral family as that found in the Red Sea

that SDSU researchers are studying.

© Guido & Philippe Poppe - www.poppe-images.com

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Youdidn’t learn

atTHATState

Think back to that day when you graduated from SDSU. You had four (or more) (orsignificantly more) years of college behind you. No matter what your major, therequirements at State ensured your ability to meet the world’s challenges.

And then…life happens.Events and choices you could never possibly foresee in college play a part in shaping your

life. Maybe, without a drop of Scottish or Irish blood, you decide one day it would be fun to

learn to play the bagpipes. Or you discover a kind of Zen-like bliss from opening up a beehive. Or, after your husband is elected governor of South Dakota, you find yourself faced with

accepting an invitation to dinner at the White House. SDSU has grown famous for saying, “You can go anywhere from here.” And you can. But sometimes,

you’re on your own.

Stories by Dana Hess

Illustrations by Lamont Hunt

Bagpipe was the first of Cooley’s odd musical interestsIf you’re a musician, don’t get too excited whenyou find out that Jerry Cooley is one, too. He’sprobably not someone you’ll be able to jam with.

Cooley’s musical interests are, in a word, eclectic. His firstmusical love is the bagpipe. “I thought it would be somethinginteresting to do,” Cooley says.

Interesting, perhaps, but Cooley soon found out that SouthDakota isn’t exactly a hotbed of pipers. Cooley, an instructorat SDSU who has degrees from State in journalism ’73 and

English ’86, made his first inquiry about bagpipes at the SDSUMusic Department. They sent him to the Shrine of Music inVermillion. Those folks knew of a piper in Yankton, PastorNelson Stone.

After getting some encouragement from Stone, “I just kindof started on my own,” Cooley remembers. His skilldeveloped through practicing and attending a couple ofsummer workshops.

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But sometimes, you’re on your own.

Cooley’s first bagpipe was made of plastic and costabout $450 used. His second has African black wood pipes,called “the musical wood,”and cost about $800. His arehighland pipes with openholes that are covered to makenotes. The bag goes under hisarm. There’s also a blow stickand drones for harmony.

“We only have nine notes,”Cooley explains. “Technicallythere are no sharps or flats, butsome of the notes are tuned asif they were sharp. It’s an oddarrangement, but it soundsOK.”

If it sounds OK, why didCooley’s wife buy him an Irishtin whistle? He admits shehoped he’d take an interest inan instrument that made alittle less noise during practicesessions.

Knowing how she feltabout the bagpipe didn’t keep Cooley from gettinginterested in the didgeridoo. Originally played by the

aborigines of Australia, the didgeridoo is known as one ofthe world’s oldest musical instruments.

Formed from aeucalyptus branch that hasbeen hollowed out bytermites, Cooley explainsthat it’s played by holdingit up to your mouth andmaking a “raspberry”sound. Music is made byaltering the shape of themouth and using the vocalchords.

Indicating hislower portion of his face,Cooley says, “You doeverything with what youhave right here.”

Cooley’s musicalcareer started in his youthwith piano lessons that hesays he stopped taking tooearly. Then came the guitar.

“My fingersdidn’t bend the right way,” Cooley says. “I find playing thebagpipe much easier.”

Even for an entomologist, Jon Kieckhefer is, well, alittle buggy. Here’s an example: One day Kieckhefer’00, leaves the office where he works as an

agronomy educator for Brookings County Extension to go checkon some research fields. On the way, he spots a swarm of bees on afencepost. Most folks would note the oddity of the sight, roll uptheir windows, and drive away. Not Kieckhefer. He’s determined toadd the swarm to his collection of hives.

It seems simple the way he describes it: “You pick them up withyour hands, put them in a box, and take them home.”

Kieckhefer explains that a swarm forms when a new queen ischosen in the hive. Put out by what she considers disloyal behavior,the old queen leaves and takes about half the colony with her.

“They don’t have anything built,” Kieckhefer says. “They’repretty docile.”

And, if Kieckhefer is in luck, they’ll be happy to take upresidence in the new home he provides on his acreage outside ofBrookings.

Moving a hive is another matter. “They’re defending a nest,”Kieckhefer says. “They can get pretty mean at times.”

Bees will make a home anyplace that’s sheltered, preferring ahollow tree, the wall of a house, or a box of some sort. They wantto be out of the elements and away from predators.

While most folks have a healthy fear of being stung,Kieckhefer sees beekeeping as a way to unwind. Kieckhefer has a master’s degree in entomology from theUniversity of Kansas, however, keeping bees was not a part of hisformal education. It was a hobby he taught himself as a way torelax. “There’s nothing more relaxing than going out andworking bees,” he says.

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Hall adept at getting small roles in big filmsDon’t call Terence Hall a movie extra. He’s a“background artist,” thank you very much. Hallshould know, he’s been an extra—er,

background artist—on four motion pictures. Hall’s first experience

was on the set of DancesWith Wolves, which wasfilmed entirely in SouthDakota twenty years ago.The productionheadquartered in Pierre,which was close to whereHall works in Onida as anExtension educator—agronomy for the SDSUCooperative ExtensionService.

It was probably easyfor producers to chooseHall ’73 for the moviebecause he looked right.He’s been a re-enactor formore than thirty yearsstudying the correctcostuming and firearms for a particular era.

“I look for historically correct clothing and always use myhobby as an excuse to buy a new gun,” Hall says. “I also beginto grow my beard during the summer months when mostmovies are made.”

In Hollywood, success is often based on making the rightcontacts. Hall has found that’s true for extras as well. Hemade contact with Dances With Wolves through the FortSisseton Historical Festival. He gets tips from a friend in

Rapid City, who has alsoappeared in a number offilms. Hall also gets e-mail updates on filmcompany needs from theS.D. Department ofTourism.

Once he’s on theset, however, makingmovies isn’t aparticularly glamorousendeavor.

“It begins beforesunrise,” Hall says of theworkday on the movieset. “The makeup peoplework on the extras in theoutdoors and low light.The shooting day usuallyends at sundown.”

Making movies is time-consuming and extras may havetime on their hands throughout the day. “The mostimportant thing for an extra is to be absolutely quiet whenthe cameras are rolling and you’re not in the shot.”

When Kieckhefer opens a hive, he enters another world. “Toavoid being stung, you have to move more slowly,” Kieckhefersays. “It’s about slowing everything down.”

It’s also about watching carefully. Once he has the hive open,Kieckhefer can see how the bees communicate through dancing,how they feed the larvae, and how they care for the queen.

“It’s a little bit of insight into what their community is like,”Kieckhefer says.

Anyone who hears about Kieckhefer’s hobby has to wonderwhat his garage is like. Last year his six hives produced 650pounds of honey. He didn’t sell any of it. He gave some of it away.Some of it is in storage.

This year he has ten established hives and expects as much as1,400 pounds of honey. If you have a sweet tooth, you might wantto make friends with Kieckhefer, because he shows no signs ofstopping.

There’s a degree of conviction in his voice when he says, “I’llchase bees anywhere and everywhere.”

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Hall has also appeared in Crazy Horse, a film for TNT, andGettysburg. Hall was likely in reenactor heaven on the set ofGettysburg, which was filmed on and near the GettysburgBattlefield National Park in Pennsylvania.

Hall admits to doing some star-gazing. He had his picturetaken with C. Thomas Howell on the set of Gettysburg and hereports that Kevin Costner was in fine humor while filminghis Oscar-winning movie Dances With Wolves.

“The important point that the director’s assistant will getacross to you while you and the stars are working together onthe set is that you are coworkers and to treat them as such,”Hall says. “Do your work and give your best when asked todo something in a scene—including not looking directly atthe camera.”

Look at the SDSU course catalogue, circa 1975,and you won’t find any classes in Long-shotPolitical Campaigns 101, Becoming a First Lady

207, or Building a New Governor’s Residence 309. If anyone has ever needed to be adept at learning on the fly,

it’s Jean Rounds ’75.That was the case again in February 2007 when Gov. and

Mrs. Mike Rounds received an invitation from PresidentGeorge W. Bush to have dinner and be overnight guests at theWhite House. They repeated what some folks would considera once-in-a-lifetime experience in 2008 when they wereinvited back again.

The first lady explainsthat during the wintermeeting of the NationalGovernors Association, allgovernors were invited to ablack tie dinner at the WhiteHouse. The Bushes alsoasked a select group of fivegovernors and their wives tobe their guests at the WhiteHouse and join them for aprivate dinner the nextnight.

“I don’t know why wewere selected to spend thenight,” she says, “especiallyto stay two years in a row.”

President Bush, VicePresident Cheney, and theirwives hosted the Sundaynight black tie dinner at the State Dining Room. During thedinner there were ten people seated at each table and no onesat next to their own spouses. In 2008 South Dakota’s firstlady took her supper between country singer Vince Gill andCalifornia Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger.

Because of her husband’s office, and her role in hisadministration, she was no stranger to formal affairs. However,

even the first lady of South Dakota needs to go shopping whenshe finds out she’s having dinner at the White House.

“President and Mrs. Bush were very gracious about takingphotos with each governor and spouse each year,” she says.“So of course I needed a new dress so my photos wouldn’thave the same dress each year.”

The presidential experience wasn’t limited to the WhiteHouse. Before the private dinner, the president and his guestswere all at an event in Washington, D.C.

“One of the more memorable things about the night wasbeing whisked by the Secret Service out the back door of thatevent and into the president’s motorcade for the ride back to

the White House,” she says.“We did not ride in thesame vehicle with thepresident, but right behindhis vehicle with sirensblaring and traffic stopped.Wow!”

After the private dinner,President Bush asked ifthey would like a tour ofthe West Wing. Mrs. Bushbegged off to watch herselfin a taped interview onLarry King Live. The fivegovernors and their wivesdidn’t get their tour from astaff member. Thepresident did it himself.

“He showed us the OvalOffice, the Cabinet Room,

and his private space behind the Oval Office,” the first ladysays.

The tour and the conversation that followed lasted morethan two hours.

“He showed us memorabilia of his time in office, talkedcandidly about his decisions while in office, and was mostgracious in answering our many questions.”

Nights in the White House were memorable4

hopeTwo simple questions, a big heart, and

strong hands aren’t enough to turnlife upside down on South Dakota’s

American Indian reservations.But Professor Russ Stubbles and

nontraditional student Bob Semrad arefinding they can make a difference. “Wecan’t turn surviving to thriving, but we canupgrade misery to discomfort,” saysSemrad, of Brookings, a visualarts student whose first taste ofState began as a preforestrystudent in 1962.

In the three years sinceStubbles, a veteran parkmanagement professor, andSemrad met, they have formedtwo nonprofit corporations.

Peddler’s Three provides awide supply of goods to the needy,primarily on reservations. TheReservation Recreation Projecttargets youth activities, but thereis “a lot of overlap” with the twogroups, says Semrad, who retired from theUnited Methodist pastorate in 2005.

Semrad was working with the Spirit LakeReservation in North Dakota before movingto Brookings in 2006.

The Rosebud Reservation in southwestSouth Dakota heard of the work in NorthDakota and contacted Semrad, who metStubbles while attending State. The kindredspirits found hundreds of Dakotans whowere willing to part with used items thatwent to the tribes.

Gaining credibility

But “there is always a greater need than Ican serve,” says Semrad.

“When we first went out there, theylooked at us with a real jaundiced eye. You

have to prove yourself,” Semrad says.Stubbles and Semrad have done that byasking two simple questions—“What doyou need?” and “How can we help?”—andthen following through.

Reservation Recreation Project’s ultimategoal is to help the Rosebud Sioux tribe buildCode Talkers Veterans Memorial sportscomplex in Mission, estimated at $1 million.

While ironing out logistics and seekingfunds, Semrad, Stubbles, and RecreationAdministration Assistant Professor PaulFokken are achieving more immediate goals.

Reeling in hope, help

Stubbles says 300 fishing poles and reelswere collected this summer in Sioux Fallsand Pierre, and then given to tribes.

Fishing tournaments are often held onreservations and the contributions allowmore to participate. At the end of the daythe youngsters walk away with the pole, atackle box, and some lures, Semrad says.

He also wants to develop a plan to letstudents learn computer operations andthen take it home when class is out.

The key to such projects is findingresponsible adults to which Semrad andStubbles can partner. That is the casewhether establishing baseball teams,teaching bicycle repair, or distributing gearfor a boxing club. “We work with anylegitimate organization or sometimes itsjust individuals,” Semrad says.

‘Fingers in a lot of

pies’

As word of their effortshave spread, “a lot ofpeople just call us. . . .That’s how we’veexpanded into these otherareas,” Semrad says.

The other areasinclude distributing usedmattresses andappliances. “Whenever aload of beds goes out,somehow people know

and they’re lined up to get them,” henotes. “There are newly married couplesthat don’t have one stick of furniture.”

While it may seem like Semrad andStubbles would need a warehouse to houseall the goods that are collecting, they don’toperate that way. “It doesn’t do anybody anygood while it is in storage so we try to sendit out as soon as we get it,” Semrad explains.

He acknowledges, “I’ve got my fingers ina lot of pies” and doesn’t limit hisinvolvement. “I have no idea what is next.”

What Semrad does know is that byasking “What do you need?” and “How canwe help?” the goal of giving quality to life isreached one child, one household, onevillage at a time.

Dave Graves

to bringPartnering

Professor, student team up to make life better on reservations

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A late summer thunderstorm threatens ahealthy cornfield in central South Dakota.

—photograph by Greg Latza ’93

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Carol J. Peterson will most graciously show youaround her home and its many treasures— •from the bookcase with black trim “to denote

mourning for Abraham Lincoln;”•to the Pairpoint Puffy lamp, so named for the puffed-out glass

that’s painted on the inside and is “now very sought-after and well-known on Cape Cod;”

•to her numerous sets of Haviland china. “People think all china ishand-painted, but that’s typically done only for the very wealthy or forroyalty,” Peterson explains. “Ninety-nine percent is decal work. TheHaviland Company started the decal concept; they made a decal thatwould fire into the glaze. I’ve seen this done at the Royal DoultonFactory in England.”

Even on the short tour, expect to learn something.To Peterson, who came to State in 1977, served as dean of the

College of Nursing for ten years, then as academic vice president andprovost until “retiring” in July 2009, education is as natural asbreathing in and out.

“It’s what I’ve devoted my life to,” she says. “It’s expandinghorizons, it’s reading about things you didn’t even know existed.

Precocious tagalongBorn in Sibley, Iowa, the last of five children, Peterson was always aquick learner.

“My mother was 42 when I was born; my closest sister was fiveyears older. So I was a tagalong,” she relates. “I was alwaysestimated to be older than I was. I was a precocious child. Quiteprecise, quite articulate.”

She loved school, maintaining a high grade point average, provingherself in a variety of leadership positions, and pursuing anappreciation for music by playing clarinet and singing mezzo soprano.

“I was a high achiever,” she says, “eager to expand my horizons.”Other than teaching or nursing, however, options for young women

graduating from high school in 1957 were few. Peterson, who liked tosew, considered a music or home economics major, but suspected herparents could ill afford to finance a four-year college education.

At work or at play,

Peterson is just naturally

learning, teaching

Take it in.

Treasure it.

Share it.

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“A nursing apprentice program in a hospital cost a few hundreddollars a year plus books because you worked for the hospital all thetime,” she explains. “I liked science and was good at science andknew my parents could help with the expenses of a three-yearnursing program.”

So her higher education began at the Methodist Kahler School ofNursing, one of Rochester’s two highly respected training programs.

“My high school advisor said, with your intelligence, why justnursing?” Peterson recalls. “I was miffed because I thought he wasputting me down, but he was probably saying, why not medical school?He was really trying to raise my sights. There was no question I couldhave gone into medicine or law.”

Inner workingsPeterson is a thinker. So much so that people have told her she appearsstern—haughty, even. But she’s actually an optimist who believes “if weplan and work hard, we can work out the problems.”

That tenet has guided her through the tough times, professionally,when she was “halted or stopped or thwarted for political, nonsensicalreasons.” And personally, like March 5, when she was in her kitchen,getting ready to go into the office, when she turned to pick up athermos, fell, and heard her hip bone break.

“I can’t even remember those first five days,” she confesses. “Theyhad me on a self-administered morphine drip for severe pain and Ididn’t manage that very well. It was during the women’s basketballSummit League Tournament, so I had wonderful visits from Brookingspeople. Lord knows what I said to those people!”

Then she laughs and she smiles and it’s like being caught in asurprise sunbeam on a cloudy day, somehow more beautiful than afull day of sunshine.

Vacation slidesOn the way to earning her nursing diploma in 1960, she met—and fellhead over heels for—the travel bug.

“A couple started The Arm Chair Travel Club, mainly to share theirtravels with us,” she recalls. “They felt there needed to be somethingmore for these young girls besides forty-four hours of hospital workevery week. They invited us to their house and showed us pictures.Several of us just ate that up.”

“We live in this stuff. It’s very artful and beautiful,

but if you put it away, people can’t see it.”

–Carol J. Peterson, on her antiques and collectibles

Top: A Pairpont Puffy lamp that Charles Peterson’s parents installed

in their home in Kokato, Minnesota, when they first got electricity.

Above: Samples of Peterson’s Haviland China. In front is the gold

and white pattern that Charles’ grandparents bought in Paris in

1906. Peterson has added pieces to the set over the years.

Right: The rose pattern from a new set of Haviland china

Peterson bought during one of her two trips to Limoges, France.

It was a sorely needed bright spot during that leg of herschooling.

“Nursing education in those days was very narrow,” Petersonexplains. “There was a heavy dose of pathology, information onthe body, and clinical practice in the areas that reflected your bookstudy, but little humanities, little social science, little psychology.”

So, when she went on to the University of Minnesota, “I was akid in a candy store. There was anthropology, humanities,philosophy. I didn’t know these things existed.”

Into antiquesWhile she was earning her doctorate in higher education, she andhusband, Charles, a buyer and contracts manager for Honeywell,bought a townhouse in Burnsville, Minnesota, and decided to fill itwith antiques, many of which they found during their travels.

“When we were younger and both so busy, we took mini-vacations,” Peterson says. “For example, we’d go to Galena,Illinois, thirty miles east of Dubuque, where Ulysses Grant grewup. It has many homes on the historic register and is quite anantique place. We’d spend a four-to five-day weekend there.

“Charles and I have been quite a few places in the world.Whether it was a day-long trip to see something different or a two-week trip to China, Norway, or Germany, we always enjoyed it.”

These days, Charles is limited in mobility and Peterson travels abit closer to home, though she’s still always on the search for afind.

“Peggy Miller [former SDSU president] and I both loveantiques and collectible items,” Peterson says. “We have a verygood time if we can get to the Lake Okiboji antique malls. I gothere with my sisters, also.”

She and Miller have been to Limoges, France, twice, side tripswedged in during other business.

“Peggy and I got up and took the early morning train, spentfour or five hours shopping around in Limoges, and came back onthe late-night train,” Peterson recalls. “We both got a new set ofLimoges [china], my rose pattern looks old, but it’s new.”

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Useful thingsWhether it’s her beautiful Haviland china, the antique walnutbed they had expertly rejuvenated, or the Vivian Volstorffjewelry bought at auction when the first dean of women waspreparing to enter a nursing home, the Petersons do not tucktheir treasures safely away.

“We used to have open houses every other year. Everybodygot to eat with an antique plate,” Peterson says. “I wear all ofthe Volstorff jewelry and we live in this stuff. It’s very artfuland beautiful, but if you put it away, people can’t see it.”

Peterson is currently assistant to the president onspecial projects. When she “retires” from that post in earlyfall 2010, she “hopes there would be some hourlyopportunities,” possibly to compile a narrativechronology of her twenty-two years in the academic vicepresident’s office.

If the day ever does come when she’s truly off the clock,she intends to wear a hat she’s not had the chance to donbefore.

“I’ve never been able to volunteer,” she says. “Peoplewould call and I’d have to say I’m sorry, until I retire, I justdon’t have time. My volunteering has been on boards, in adecision-making capacity.

She also looks forward to the very simplest of joys.“I hope to keep my spouse at home, and take care of him,and have a peaceful life.”

Cindy Rickeman

Hansen Westside‘cowboydorm’hometo

ruralattitu

de

HALL

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San Francisco has its Chinatown. Chicago boosts Little

Poland. Boston’s North End tastes of Italy. At SDSU,

its distinctive enclave is Hansen Hall; not marked by

ethnicity but rather branded with a cowboy culture. Built in 1967

and located on the northwest edge of campus, the hall for many

years was like many rural South Dakota communities—out there

by itself.

That’s just fine with the majority of the 400 students who call

the four-story, brick residence hall home for nine months a year.

Hansen Hall was originally designated as the dorm for

agriculture and biological science majors. That’s understandable

considering its comparatively close proximity to Ag Hall and the

Animal Science building as well as being a short drive to livestock

facilities.

Not just any dorm—legendary

When you walk into one of the hallways, you see cowboyboots with spurs lined up outsideeach room

Westside‘cowboydorm’hometoruralatti

tude

Britton Blair ’07, left, and

Brandon Kinney ’09 practice

roping on the lawn of

Hansen Hall.

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you may even see someone get “roped” or lassoed,but Hansen Hall’s rural feel comes from theresidents who make the “cowboy dorm” the laststop on a trail ride.

“Hansen Hall was my introduction to culturaldiversity,” says Linda (Dummermuth) Duba ’78, aSioux Falls Washington graduate who lived inHansen Hall 1974-76. “I was like a stranger in astrange land. They weren’t going to adapt. I had toeither adapt or get out.”

Adapt, she did. In fact, her second year atHansen was as resident assistant (RA). She endedup with great memories of the people that madethe place “it’s own little world.”

Duba ended up at Hansen because sheregistered late. “I was born and raised in SiouxFalls. They weren’t prepared for me, and I wasn’tprepared for them. I didn’t know a thing about thefarm let alone the ranch.”

It was 1974, a time before the cowboy hadbecome urban and even South Dakota teen culturefavored Bachman-Turner Overdrive and LynyrdSkynrd.

Tom Richter ’88/’90

He remembers riding on a bed during the Hobo Week bed races.

“That was fun. . . . I just remember going down Medary Avenue

wondering if [the bed] would stay together. Going down Medary

there is a slight decline and it was going pretty good.”

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“When I first arrived and witnessed guys andgals walking around with boots, hats, belts withtheir names on them, I thought, ‘Where the hellare you from?’” an image Duba says she recallsas clearly as the odor blowing in from the north,where the University houses livestock.

“I remember going into the day room thefirst day and there was a spittoon. I said, ‘Whatis this and what’s it for?’ I soon found that notonly did guys chew, the gals did too,” Duba says.

‘Moon’ over Hansen

Lessons were quickly learned about life in hernew neighborhood. “You didn’t tell anybodyyou were from Sioux Falls. They cut you off.They didn’t talk to you,” Duba says. But shecouldn’t exactly pretend to be a cowgirl. “Myexposure to that was what I saw on TV.”

It didn’t take long for Duba and two of herSioux Falls buddies to make their own mark.

Three weeks into the school year, from theirdorm window, they mooned a group of guysoutside the hall. “Of course, we got in trouble.[Hall director] Lonnie [Braun] said, ‘If youdon’t cut it out, we’ll make you come down tothe lobby and do it.’”

Mooning, streaking, and panty raids were allpart of college life in the 1970s and they becamepart of Hansen Hall life.

Streakin’ like a

Jackrabbit

Jim Wilcox ’76 lived three years inHansen Hall, including duringthe streaking craze of winterand spring 1974.

“Everybody had to do somestreaking. One night a few guys decided weneeded to do this. We were wearing just stockingcaps, socks, and tennis shoes. We went out thefront door and made a lap around to the sidedoor. I slipped and fell on the ice; ripped up myknee pretty badly,” Wilcox says.

The dorm matron, Leona Headley, wife oflate University President John Headley, “knewsomebody had been streaking,” Wilcox recalls.

When Wilcox went to get a butterfly bandagefor his bleeding knee from Headley, the formerfirst lady accused Wilcox of bearing his buns ona below-zero run. Wilcox denied it and sufferedno repercussions beyond the streaking scar. “Itwas unbelievably stupid,” he says now.

But at the time it seemed right. Besides, girlswere watching. “You don’t want to exhibityourself without an audience,” Wilcox says.

Linda (Dummermuth) Duba ’78

recalls a couple brothers from

Lemmon bringing a horse onto

fourth floor. The problem was it

didn’t want to go down the stairs.

“It was almost impossible to get

that thing out of there” and “don’t

ask me how they passed the

lobby,” but the former RA (resident

assistant) did have a theory.

“When we were RAs we had to

sit the desk. When you sit the

desk you can turn a blind eye to

about anything.”

Don Larson ’76

The hall put on a watermelon feed during Hobo week.

Larson, then a junior, and hall director Lonnie Braun

(left) were at the table slicing melons with butcher

knives while another person set melons on the table.

“Lonny [inadvertently] put his hand on the melon in

front of me. I was swinging this big butcher knife. I cut

him from one end to another. . . . Fortunately, every

other [melon] I whacked it completely in half. This one I

didn’t hit as hard.

“I hit him across the top of the hand. There was a lot

more blood and gore than a disabling injury, but it freaked

out quite a few people.”

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Sheep ‘n’ socks;

a ba-a-a-d idea

There are times, however, when no audience isdesired, like when a member of the oppositesex is staying after visitation hours or ananimal is being sneaked into the hall.

Ann Martin McGovern ’90/’93 was halldirector from fall 1990 to spring 1993. Sherecalls a group of guys that had been cavortingand decided to pick up an occupant of thesheep research unit on the way home.

“They brought the sheep back to the halland were making noise [in the hallway]. Itturned out they were putting tube socks on thesheep so it would be quieter.” Wayne Hopkins,the first-floor RA in 1990-91 who measured 6-3 and 240 pounds, “stepped out in his tighteywhiteys. He just looked at them and didn’t saya word.

The perpetrators sheepishly explained, “‘Wethought it would be funny. We can see it’s not.So we’ll be going now,’” McGovern tells.

Not happy with its looks

Dan Moon ’98, a Hansen Hall RA in 1994-97,witnessed the destruction caused by a buckram that was brought onto second floor theyear before he became an RA. “When it sawitself in the mirror it rammed the mirror. It

Tim Peters ’81

Nearly thirty years later, Peters is still riding

motorcycles, but no longer through Hansen Hall.

In 1980 he borrowed a less powerful dirt bike

than the one shown here to take a quick ride

through the dorm.

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busted all four mirrors in thehallways,” Moon says.

Stories abound of horses being riddenthrough Hansen Hall in the late 1970s or early1980s, of goats trotting up and down the stairs,and the appearance of a cow or pig.

Like a murder in an old hotel, the legend canlive on long beyond the (alleged) occurrence.

Matt Tollefson, current president of theStudents’ Association and a member of theAlumni Association Board of Directors, lived inHansen Hall from 2006 to 2008. He came from afarm at Clark and knew what he was gettinginto.

“Everyone’s heard the stories of taking ahorse or sheep onto the fourth-floor girls wingand leaving it as a joke, and the metal ropingdummies in the back yard. That one proved tobe true,” says Tollefson, a senior Ag educationmajor who served in hall government.

Tim Peters ’81 lived on third floor HansenHall all four years of school, but he didn’t alwaysstay in his dorm room.

“I liked to ride motorcycles. This kid had adirt bike up in his room,” Peters recalls. So on aweekend night in his junior year, he “started itup and rode it down the hallway, through thebathroom, and down two flights of stairs”before exiting without getting in trouble.

Hansen ‘filled with

good people’

But Hansen Hall is more than Wranglers andCMT, it has tight-knit sense of community.

“I had friends from east campus who said,‘You guys are just so close over here.’ Hansen isfilled with good people that know how to treatpeople and have fun. In Hansen you keep yourdoor open all year. People will just drop in andsay hi,” Tollefson says.

Everyone was a prankster’

Tom Richter ’88/’90 lived in Hansen from fall1983 through fall 1984. He remembers a dormmate announcing “Someone stole my room.”Richter says, “They took everything out of theirroom except the mattress he was sleeping on.Everything was gone. Bed frame, bunk, TV,clothes. Everything.”

But not taken far. All was safely stored in theshowers.

Everyone was a prankster. In spite of that, orperhaps because of that, “a lot of goodfriendships were made in those dorms.

“One of the best college experiences wasliving there,” Richter says. “It forced you to getto know people and have a sense of community.

Even when those people wear big beltbuckles, spit tobacco, and bring goats onto yourfloor.

Whether fact or fiction, the legends that havesolidified Hansen Hall’s reputationundoubtedly will continue for futuregenerations–at least as long as Hansen stands.

Dave Graves

Chris Breen ’06

He remembers minor incidents of sheep, goats, and pigs

being brought into the dorm, but says he was only guilty

of housing a baby rabbit—Buttercup. He found the

cottontail in the spring and kept it in his shower basket,

until he hopped out and the janitor saw him. Breen had

to chase down Buttercup, who was turned over to

animal control for a release in its

natural habitat.

Editor’s note: Read other storiesabout Hansen Hall athttp://www.statealum.com,click on events and news.

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Joel Rauber became head of the PhysicsDepartment July 10 after serving as actinghead since the fall. He replaced Oren Quist,who retired September 30 after twenty-twoyears as department head.

Rauber, who has been with the physicsdepartment since 1985, says it is an excitingtime to head the department thataccommodates thirty-two student majors andserves around 1,200 students each semester.

“The Sanford underground laboratory atHomestake has placed physics on the radarscreen in the state and will provide significantopportunities for our students and thedepartment, opportunities that we used toonly dream about,” Rauber says.

Lew Brown, dean of the College ofEngineering, adds, “Physics has been gainingboth state and national attention with the

establishment of the underground sciencelaboratory at Homestake as well as growingdiscussions concerning the importance ofnuclear energy as part of the nation’salternative energy portfolio.”

Rauber received a bachelor’s degree inphysics from Emory University in Atlanta anda doctorate in physics from the University ofNorth Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Rauber, native of Atlanta, Ga., is marriedto Maria Ramos, department head of modernlanguages at SDSU. The couple has one child.

Research interests for Rauber includegravitational physics and the study of blackholes and computational physics, whilehobby interests include long-distancebackpacking along with science, military,and political history.

Rauber to head Physics Department

Barrel racer rides home with national title

Rachel Tiedeman narrowly claimed the barrelracing title at the College National FinalsRodeo June 20 in Casper, Wyoming.

Her four-round time of 57.38 edged thesecond-place finisher by .07 of a second.

Tiedeman, an SDSU junior nursingstudent from Rio, Wisconsin, defeated morethan forty competitors in her event tobecome the first national champion for the

SDSU rodeo team since Tabitha Sigman, ofSturgis, won the national championship goat-tying honor in 2004.

“The competitor who was in first place wasthe last one to ride, so I had to wait, I was thesecond racer to go on the last night of theevent, the short round,” said Tiedeman. “Shecould have won it but she knocked the secondbarrel over,” which is a five-second penalty.

Tiedeman took eighth place last year, soher victory was fulfilling, she said. Part of thethrill was that she rode to it on a horse sheand her mother had spent nine years training.

“I love him to death, and there were a lotof hot days, hard work, time on the road,” shesaid. “But it paid off. Nine years of ridingtogether. I wondered a few times if he was fastenough, and he proved he was.”

SDSU’s Andrew Coughlin won the reservechampion honor in bull riding, finishingsecond among the thirty-nine riders.Coughlin, a De Smet native, was one of onlyfour riders with three qualifying rides. He wasbucked off the first day. The champion wasthe only rider with four qualifying rides.

Brent Sutton of SDSU finished fourthoverall in the steer wrestling competition.

With sixty members, the SDSU Rodeoteam is the sixth largest in the U.S.

SDSU will undergo a comprehensiveevaluation visit November 2-4 by a teamrepresenting the Higher LearningCommission of the North CentralAssociation of Colleges and Schools.

Public comment is being solicited inadvance of the visit and should be sent to:

Public Comment on South Dakota StateUniversity

The Higher Learning Commission30 North LaSalle Street, Suite 2400Chicago, IL 60602Comments must address substantive

matters related to the quality of theinstitution or its academic programs.

Written, signed comments must bereceived by October 1.

The Commission cannot guarantee thatcomments received after the due date will beconsidered. Comments should include thename, address, and telephone number of theperson providing the comments. Commentswill not be treated as confidential.

Note: Individuals with a specific disputeor grievance with an institution shouldrequest the separate “Policy on Complaints”document from the commission office. TheHigher Learning Commission cannot settledisputes between institutions andindividuals. Complaints will not bereviewed in this process.

Deb Pravecek and Donna Hess both arrivedat SDSU in 1974 and retired in June afterthirty-five years of service to the University.

Pravecek, an assistant professor in theDepartment of Chemistry and Biochemistry,began working as a research assistant in thelaboratories of noted chemistry professorIvan Palmer where she studied theantioxidant role of the chemical elementselenium. She also analyzed biological andgeological samples for selenium content.

During her time at SDSU, Pravecekworked to completely restructure the clinicallaboratory science program. The program iscurrently in the process of obtaining nationalaccreditation. She also managed the clinicallaboratory in student health services for anumber of years and coordinated labs forchemistry instruction.

Most recently, Pravecek served as theprogram director of the clinical andlaboratory science major by teaching courses,coordinating labs, and advising students.

Pravecek graduated from Mount MartyCollege with a bachelor’s degree in chemistryand medical technology, and earned a

master’s degree in chemistry at SDSU. Shewas named Member of the Year for the statesociety of the American Society for ClinicalLaboratory Science in 2007.

She plans to move to a house she and herhusband are building in the Freeman area.

Hess, rural sociology department head anddistinguished professor, has taught,conducted research, and assumedadministrative responsibilities.

Hess worked as the graduate programcoordinator, serving as major advisor ofnine master’s students and thirtydoctorate students, and assisted onadvisory committees for numerous othergraduate students. SDSU’s CensusData/Rural Life Center benefited from hersupervision as well.

She served in the Peace Corps for threeyears after obtaining her bachelor’s fromMarquette University in 1965. She thenearned her master’s from the StateUniversity of New York at Binghamton in1971 and her doctorate from MichiganState University in 1974.

Accreditation board seeks comments on SDSU

Deb Pravecek

Donna Hess

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GloryRESTORED TO

From wheels to wooden frame, alumnus refurbishes 1912 Bummobile for 2009 Hobo Day

Something old has been transformed into something new. That’s because it wasborrowed by an alumnus who hauled the venerable Hobo Day Bummobileback to his workshop in Palo Alto, California, where it was completely restored.

The 1912 Model T Ford is now even sporting black fenders with a midnight bluebody and gold pin-striped, teardrop-shaped wooden spoked wheels.

We have the interest and the generosity of 1943 electrical engineering graduateHarold C. Hohbach to thank for this remarkable Model T transformation.

Because of his caring efforts, the chugging old flivver that has transportedgovernors and scruffy school royalty in Hobo Day parades and to Sylvan Theater

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pep rallies for seventy years won’t be missing a beatfor at least another 100 years.

A gift from Flandreau resident Frank Weigel in 1938,the Bummobile has graduated from just a peculiarHobo Day addition in 1939, when it replaced a twomule-drawn carriage, to an admired Hobo Day icon.

But time was beginning to tell on the old car’smoveable accoutrements, right on down to well-worn seat cushions and its dinged tin siding thin asa cheap pizza crust.

In its early life on campus, the mechanical talentsof veteran staff member Rudy Lundin, who served atthe University for forty-seven years, kept it totteringalong at a Pride of the Dakotas Marching Band pace.

Aside from its Moody County farm duties underformer owner Weigel’s care, it had probably over theyears been driven thousands of stop-and-go paradeand promotional miles by hundreds of proud, but insome cases not very prudent, student drivers.

There are at least two documented and well-executed thefts of the car followed by red-facedconfessions from interlopers residing at a lesseruniversity to the south. That’s in addition to its well-meaning but boisterous student overloads andmaintenance underfunding.

To tell the truth, until Hohbach and hismechanically talented employee Hensel Trocheentered the Bummobile picture, its glorious days—operationally speaking—might have been very nearthe inevitable off-ramp.

Hohbach, a farm boy from west of Plankinton whoattended his first eight grades in a one-room ruralschool, came to State in 1940 with $40 in his pocket.This was augmented by income from two jobs, one atthe library and the other at the then-new PugsleyStudent Union bustling lunch room, The Jungle.

He lived in Scobey Hall and graduated with anelectrical engineering degree in 1943. Then there wasservice in World War II. He came home, motored toCalifornia in 1946 in a 1940 Packard with a GI friendfrom Texas, and earned a degree in business. He thengraduated from the prestigious Boalt School of Law atBerkeley and became a patent attorney. He worked forthe same law firm in Silicon Valley from 1952 to 2002.

Fortunately, he was back for his alma mater’s2008 Hobo Day.

He and Troche had refurbished a 1911 Model Tpickup that Hohbach hauled to Brookings in atruck, drove in the Hobo Day parade and thendropped off as his gift to the University’sAgricultural Heritage Museum.

Folks at the SDSU Foundation and the Office ofStudent Affairs were so impressed with therefurbishing work that they asked if he’d take theBummobile back to his California shop for arestoration. He agreed.

“At the time, I figured I might have to spend$20,000 on fixing all that was wrong with it,”Hohbach says. As he and his mechanic delved intothe old machine’s innards, that $20,000 guess wentout the windshield.

But Hohbach isn’t one to cobble together or dosomething halfway. At 87, he’s a perpetual motionmachine, managing his various business interests,and for the past eight months, keeping tabs andhelping where he could on the meticulous rebirthof the Bummobile that had arrived on campus ayear before he did.

“We completely rebuilt an engine and found a1912 rear end,” he says. “We also procured newwheels and tires and found original brass kerosene

side and rear lamps and a brass horn.” Every part,stem to stern, has been refurbished including newwooden framing.

Although originally the Ford Motor Company gavecustomers any car color they wanted “so long as it wasblack,” some of the earlier models, the Bummobileamong them, came in various colors.

When it left campus last fall, it was all paintedblack and that was dulled and fading. Hohbach andhis restoration compatriot have restored the old butproud contraption to its original tint, a deepmidnight blue, except where black paint on thefenders and running boards is called for.

Watch for the new, blue, pristine Bummobile inthis year’s Hobo Day parade on October 24.

Written by Chuck Cecil, a newspaper columnist andfreelance writer in Brookings. He received both hisbachelor’s degree ’59 and his master’s degree ’70 injournalism from SDSU.

Harold C. Hohbach, a 1943

electrical engineering grad-

uate, shows off the newly

restored Bummobile. After

Hobo Day 2008, Hohbach

hauled the 1912 Model T

Ford back to his workshop

in Palo Alto, California,

where it was completely re-

stored through his generos-

ity. The Bummobile will

make a proud return in this

year’s Hobo Day parade on

October 24.

Homecoming Hobo Day Gallery to house memorabilia, Bummobile; fund-raising for project continues

HeritageThe completed makeover of the historic Hobo

Day Bummobile has created a greater sense ofurgency to find a suitable home for the

sparkling 1912 Model T.Nearly 2,000 square feet of a 17,000-square-foot

expansion to increase the dining-service options withinThe Union will be devoted to a Hobo Day Gallery. TheBummobile has been stored in a garage, tucked awayfrom the public eye with the exception of homecomingweek. That will soon change.

The Gallery will provide a glass showroomprojecting out from The Union’s north side to displayHobo Day memorabilia and provide a year-round placeof honor for the prized automobile. A moveable glasswall will allow the gallery to host campus andcommunity gatherings.

Construction will begin this fall, with completionexpected by Hobo Day 2010.

“What’s really exciting is reconnecting students tothe traditions,” says Marysz Rames, vice president ofStudent Affairs. “This is going be a living gallery to helpstudents understand the rich tradition of Hobo Day.”

While the Office of Students Affairs oversees thecollection of Hobo Day memorabilia, the SDSUFoundation is spearheading a

fund-raising campaign to raise $300,000 to coverthe Hobo Day Gallery’s share of the construction.

Members of the Classes of 1958 and 1959 alreadyhave directed gifts toward the project. Past Hobo DayCommittee members also are getting involved.

Lyle ’73 and Garnet Perman ’76 of Lowry, SouthDakota, met while serving on the Hobo DayCommittee. In 2008, the couple returned to serve asWeary Wil and Dirty Lil during homecoming week. ThePermans are making an investment in the Hobo DayGallery because they want the traditions preserved.

“Hobo Day is a unique homecoming, and it’sdifferent than any other college,” Garnet Permansays. “I think that is one of the important parts ofpreserving (the traditions).”

The Bummobile has been the lead entry in everyHobo Day parade since 1939, with the exception of1942, when Hobo Day and classes were cancelled sostudents could help with the World War II effort. TheModel T Ford has shepherded homecoming grandpoobas, parade grand marshals, and U.S. PresidentDwight Eisenhower posed for pictures in the car duringa visit to campus in 1952.

To support the Hobo Day Gallery and learn aboutsponsorship opportunities, contact Ryan Howlett atthe SDSU Foundation at 1.888.747.7378 orryan.howlett@sdsufoundation.org.

Interior View: The Hobo Day Gallery will provide ample room

for alumni receptions, Hobo Day memorabilia, and the Bum-

mobile. Construction of the gallery is to be completed by

Hobo Day 2010.

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South Dakota State University will develop the state’s firstaccredited program in architecture, thanks to theinvestment of industry leaders.

Four companies and one individual have pledged to contributeprivate funds needed to launch the program. As the program’sfounders, they will be represented on an advisory board. TheUniversity hopes the founders group will include seven to ninearchitectural and engineering firms when it’s complete. Thecurrent founders are:

• Architecture Incorporated of Sioux Falls;• Koch Hazard Architects of Sioux Falls;• Perspective, Inc. of Sioux Falls; • TSP of Sioux Falls; and• SDSU alumnus Jerry Lohr ’58, president of J. Lohr

Properties and J. Lohr Winery, both located in San Jose,California.

“Architecture programs are very resource-intensive,similar to other professional programs in law, pharmacy, andmedicine,” says SDSU President David L. Chicoine. “Thesefounders understand the substantial early investmentnecessary to develop an exceptional program, and they havemade commitments to help the University achieve that goal.”

The Board of Regents approved the architecture program June22, culminating nearly two years of study and planning by SDSUofficials, led by Jerry Jorgensen, dean of the College of Arts andSciences. The program will include a four-year bachelor’s degreein architectural studies and a two-year master’s of architecturedegree.

“The four architectural firms that have signed up as foundersrepresented the core of the task force,” Jorgensen says. “Theyinvested nearly two years in this process because they understood

the extraordinaryopportunity we had to create thisprogram. That partnership betweenthe industry and the University wasabsolutely crucial.”

Representatives of the four founding firmsattended the Regents’ June 22 meeting in Pierre toreinforce their support for the program.

“The licensed architects in South Dakota enabled theRegents’ decision,” Chicoine says. “The industry’scontributions during the feasibility study helped us build astrong plan. Now, we can focus on building a strongprogram.”

The Architecture Feasibility Task Force included leadersfrom six architectural and engineering firms in South Dakota,and the state’s chapter of the American Institute of Architectsformally endorsed the plan earlier this year.

South Dakota is one of only seven states without anaccredited program in architecture. Architects seekinglicensure must earn their degrees from a program accreditedby the National Architectural Accrediting Board. As a result,South Dakotans who seek careers as architects must pursuedegrees at colleges and universities in other states. Therefore,architectural firms in South Dakota have difficulties attractingyoung professionals and interns for positions in theircompanies, according to the report filed last year by theArchitectural Feasibility Task Force.

P R O G R A M

Founders of the new architecture program at SDSU are: Elizabeth Squyer of

Architecture Incorporated; Larry Crane of Perspective, Inc.; Jerry Lohr ’58,

president of J. Lohr Properties and J. Lohr Winery; Sean Ervin of TSP; and

Jeff Hazard of Koch Hazard Architects.

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ARCHITECTURE

Industry leaders help SDSU construct

and develop the state’s first accredited

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Friends of South Dakota StateUniversity continue to support theUniversity’s comprehensive campaign,

surpassing $90 million in gifts and pledgessince January 1, 2007.

Through mid-July, $90,838,060 had beenraised for the campaign. That amount camefrom 15,975 unique donors—a sign of thewidespread support by alumni and friends tofulfill the goals of the campaign.

It Starts with STATE: A Campaign forSouth Dakota State University has a workinggoal of $190 million, making it the largestcomprehensive campaign in South Dakotahistory. The campaign is designed to increasescholarships for students, strengthen facultyexcellence, support expanded researchopportunities, build and revitalize facilities,and invest in athletics, museums, the arts,and international experiences.

The campaign is scheduled to runthrough 2012. Jake Krull ’60, chair of theSDSU Foundation Board of Governors,says the campaign should be halfway toits overall goal this fall. “It isextraordinarily significant that nearly16,000 different individuals, companiesand organizations have invested morethan $90 million in support of thiscampaign only two-and-a-half yearsthrough its six-year duration,” he says.

The Foundation’s Board of Governors, inanticipation of larger financial commitmentsthrough the campaign, voted in July tohonor two iconic figures in the University’shistory by establishing Lifetime GivingSocieties in their names. They are:

• The Theodore and Esther SchultzSociety, which will recognize lifetime givingbetween $5,000,000 and $9,999,999. Schultz,a 1926 graduate, was awarded the NobelPrize in Economic Sciences in 1979 for histheory on the investment in human capital.

• The Charles L. Coughlin Society, whichwill become the premier society,acknowledging lifetime giving of$10,000,000 or more. Coughlin, a 1909graduate, provided the financial support toconstruct SDSU’s famed campanile, whichwas completed in 1929.

Krull says it’s fitting that both arehonored on significant anniversaries.Schultz’s Nobel Prize was awarded thirty

years ago. Coughlin graduated a century ago;the Coughlin Campanile was completedeighty years ago.

Each year, the Foundation holds abanquet on campus to honor donors whoattain thresholds for lifetime giving tosupport the University. Pledges and plannedgifts will now be considered in determiningeligibility in the societies, Krull says. The2010 Annual Donor Recognition Event isscheduled for May 6.

T.W. Schultz Charles L. Coughlin

Lifetime Giving Levels, effective in 2009Associate $25,000 to $49,999

Distinguished University Benefactor $50,000 to $99,999

Distinguished University Patron $100,000 to $249,999

William M. Griffith Society $250,000 to $499,999

Ethel Austin Martin Society $500,000 to $999,999

Stephen F. Briggs Society $1,000,000 to $4,999,999

Theodore and Esther Schultz Society $5,000,000 to $9,999,999

Charles L. Coughlin Society $10,000,000 and up

The new program, which will have anemphasis in sustainable design andconstruction, aligns closely with severalestablished disciplines at South DakotaState, including engineering, constructionmanagement, landscape architecture, andinterior design, according to Chicoine.

“The new architecture program fits thetraditional land-grant mission of teaching,research, and service,” Chicoine says. “Thesustainable design component holds thepotential to make the architecture program

at South Dakota State University uniqueand distinct from other programsnationally. The Regents recognize the needfor such an accredited program in SouthDakota, and I am very pleased that theyhave entrusted its development to thepeople at SDSU.”

The University expects approximatelysixty students enrolled in prerequisitecourses for architecture in fall 2010.Approximately thirty of those studentswill be admitted into the architectural

program in 2011. That first group will beon track to complete the bachelor’s degreein spring 2014, and sixteen of those willbe admitted to the first master’s degreeclass for fall 2014. The first master’s ofarchitecture students will be scheduled tograduate in spring 2016.

University officials will not request newstate resources from the Legislature tofund the architecture program, insteadutilizing internal reallocations, privatefunding, and student fees.

ARCHITECTURE PROGRAM continued from page 33

It Starts with STATE exceeds $90 million

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There’s a lot tolearn your first

year of teaching—just ask Joy

Korman. Armed witha biology degree,

teaching certificate, andfive months of student

teaching, Korman beganher first year teaching

physical science at FlandreauHigh School last fall.

“As a first-year teacher, everyday I learn something new. I learn ifthis teaching technique works ordoesn’t work. If this is the right way or thewrong way to handle a situation that callsfor discipline—there’s just a lot to take in. Itseems there’s a lot no one tells you,” saysKorman, who graduated in 2008 with abiology major and chemistry minor.

When Korman learned of a mentorshipprogram offered by South Dakota StateUniversity, she jumped at the opportunityto connect with an experienced teacher.

“I said yes right away. I need all thehelp I can get to become a better teacherand better understand my students,school, and community,” says Korman,who also teaches sociology.

The mentorship program was inspiredby Marian Fillbrandt and paid for withdollars from an endowment sheestablished before her death in 2005. A1933 mathematics graduate of SDSU,Fillbrandt was a science teacher for manyyears. She felt that math and science

teachers, especially in rural schools, oftenwere isolated from resources. In addition,they frequently were the only math orscience teacher in the school andtherefore, were expected to teach a largevariety of material and topics.

The Fillbrandt Endowment provides asmall stipend to new math or scienceteachers and their mentors, enablingthem to meet on a regular basis and shareresources, support, and information. Thestipend also assists the teachers inattending continuing educationconferences or courses.

“The first year can be very stressful,”says Jennifer Weber, instructor of teachereducation at SDSU. “Teaching can feelisolating at times—you are responsiblefor making all decisions on your own.

There is no way we can prepare futureteachers for the reality of seven

classes a day and interacting withthirty students in each class.New teachers need someonewho can share advice andinformation with them asthey are experiencing therealities of teaching.”

Weber worked with KristiRussow, field placement

supervisor in the Department ofTeacher Education, to develop the

mentor program, which began in fall2008. Along with providing a personal

resource to new teachers, the mentorprogram is aimed at increasing teacherretention.

Korman’s mentor is Liz McMillan, athird-year middle school science teacher.

“Your first year, there’s so many thingsunique to your school district that no onetells you,” McMillan says. “Joy knows I’mher go-to person who she can contactwith any questions.”

Korman is the first SDSU graduate toparticipate in the Fillbrandt program.

“We are working to develop even moreways that teachers can connect andnetwork,” Russow says. “This is whatMarian would have wanted.”

Liz McMillan, left, a third-year middle school science

teacher at Flandreau, mentors first-year teacher Joy

Korman, a 2008 graduate of SDSU and the first to

participate in the Fillbrandt teacher mentorship program.

entorship M Program 1933 mathematics graduate inspires, funds

program through Fillbrandt EndowmentMarian Fillbrandt

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Before face masks, slobberknockers were not ascommon as those we’ll be seeing at CoughlinAlumni Stadium this football season.

Not that football wasn’t played with someabandon back then. It probably was, just notreckless abandon.

There was this little matter of well-anchoredteeth and protruding noses that undoubtedlyslowed everything down.

Face masks are a fairly new addition tofootball.

I thought about that while researching thelate Charlie Coughlin’s collegiate career for abook I’ve now completed. He graduated fromSDSU, then called South Dakota AgriculturalCollege, in 1909 and twenty years later gave hisalma mater $75,000 for the Campanile. In the1960s he gave another $50,000 for the stadiumwhere the Jacks are battling it out this season.

Coughlin earned perhaps twenty letters(records are unclear) competing in football,track, baseball, and basketball from 1904 to1909. He was the first inductee to the JackrabbitHall of Fame in 1967.

Coughlin gained that well-deserved famewearing an early-day, leathernose/mouth guard.

Looking at Coughlin’s old teampictures loaned to me by hisgranddaughter Sheila Brookins, ofSparta, Wisconsin, you get a sense

of the primitive football equipment of acentury ago.

The picture of the 1904 team, with freshmanCoughlin lounging front row left, shows most ofthe sixteen Barnyard Cadets (as they were calledby opposing players and the press before theJackrabbit came along) with something strangedangling around their necks.

It’s a nose and mouth guard.Note also the flimsy shoulder and elbow pads.

They’re not much, maybe thick as a squishedNickburger and perhaps more similar to thepadding in your sport coat shoulders to give youthat Tarzanic, Johnny Weissmuller look.

The helmet Coughlin and the otherJackrabbits wore wasn’t much more than aleather cap.

Protection for teeth and nose was a far cryfrom what’s worn today. That part of footballdidn’t emerge until the late 1930s, and at firstthe mask was one bar in front of the mouth.One very early version even used barbedwire. Honest.

Coughlin’s nose guard was placed over themouth and nose and held there with

clenched teeth. Somewhere along the line, for

some reason, players stoppedwearing this 1904 contraption,or a face mask of any kind.Possibly vanity had something todo with shucking masks likeCoughlin wore. They probablymade breathing difficult as well.

Football has come a long waysince then.

Now some of the professionalplayers ensconced head to toe inindustrial strength plastic even

sport diamond earrings and necklaces. Afew of the more immature ones evencarry fountain pens on the field as propsfor embarrassing end-zone antics.

Old gridiron warriors like CharlieCoughlin and other toothless wondersof the past, if they were playing today,would probably reserve a specialslobbernocker just for those moreelaborately bejeweled players of today.

The 1904 team, with freshman Coughlin

lounging front row far left, shows most of the

sixteen Barnyard Cadets (as they were called

by opposing players and the press before the

Jackrabbit came along) with a nose and

mouth guard around their necks.

NOTES FROM NICKS

By Chuck Cecil

Playing with minimal protection

Chuck’s Column is sponsored by

Nick’s Hamburgers

www.NicksHamburgers.com

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Historically SDSU has done quitewell for itself in terms of winningfootball games. The Jackrabbits

also have been winners in another importantcategory: community service and givingback to those in need.

SDSU players have volunteered their timefor a whole host of community serviceprojects and activities, ranging fromassisting with community food drives andreading to elementary students to takingpart in campus-wide cleanups.

Perhaps their most eventful andmeaningful outing occurred April 17-18when the Jacks bused to Rapid City, wherethey treated fans to a scrimmage,conducted a youth clinic, saw patients atRapid City Regional Hospital, and visitedthe Children’s Home Society prior totouring Mount Rushmore.

With the National Guard’s Camp Rapidserving as their home base, the Jacksopened with a full scrimmage thatfeatured a forty-yard touchdown pass, asixty-yard touchdown run, and a longinterception return.

Following the scrimmage, playersturned into coaches, instructing aboutthirty elementary and middle school-agedstudents in the art of catching andrunning routes, ball-carrying skills, andtackling techniques using dummies.

“All the kids seemed excited to be thereand had lots of fun,” says Jimmy Rogers, asenior linebacker from Chandler, Arizona.

“Overall, the clinic was a success. We got toplay around with them and make their day.”

Calling the clinic “a blast,” seniorrunning back Jordan Paula of Brookingsadds, “The kids had to make moves on theguys holding bags and then tried to punchthrough a group of offensive line guysholding bags defending the goal line.

“It was also fun to watch the kids do anend-zone dance after they scored,” he adds.“All-in-all, it was a great afternoon.”

Making patients stay better

Following the clinic, the team journeyed tothe hospital. After a team photo was takeninside, players split into two groups: onevisiting the rehabilitation unit and the otherthe pediatric floor.

The players spoke with nurses on duty,handed out Jacks T-shirts, and posed forpictures. However, it was their interactionwith patients, specifically young children,that was most memorable for them.

“Our visit seemed to put a smile on theirfaces as well as their families who were alsothere,” relates Glen Fox, a senior widereceiver from Fairfax, Iowa. “To help maketheir stay a little better was well worth it.”

James, a three-year-old, had just wokeup from a nap and was quite startledwhen Paula, and senior offensive linemenNate Koskovich and Jacob Ludemannstrolled into his room.

“There were three pretty big guys wearingblue jerseys in there,” says Paula. “I think wescared him a little. His family joked that heprobably thought he was having anightmare. We had a nice conversation withhis family, though, and being that young itwas tough to see him in the hospital.

“Overall, it was a wonderful experiencevisiting the kids,” Paula adds. “It reallymakes you appreciate your blessings in life.”

Community Service part of program

Throughout the school year, the SDSUfootball team takes an active role inBrookings and surrounding areacommunities.

In recent years, a commitment tocommunity service has been added to thecriteria necessary to earn a varsity letter onthe Jackrabbit football program. Playersparticipate in many community serviceprojects and activities. In fact, theexpectation of social responsibility fromstudent-athletes is strongly promoted withinthe SDSU Athletic Department.

Kyle Johnson

Jacks’ football tradition

Making a difference

WEDDINGS

Ryan Braulick ’01 and Katie Blaschko -

April 18, 2009. Ryan is working as a

district conservationist for USDA and Katie

is a nursing assistant for the School

Sisters of Notre Dame. They live in

Mankato, MN.

Rebecca Weinkauf ’07 and Adam Glover

’07 - May 30, 2009. They live in Elk Point.

BIRTHS

Larry ’85 and Yelena Heffley, twins, Romeo

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

Reading, PA.

Yvonne Borresen ’95 and Victor Coward,

twins, Juliana Grace and William Victor,

born July 1, 2008. They live in Severna

Park, MD.

Margret (Blume) ’00 and Casey Kennedy, a

girl, Emmerson Jewel, born June 12, 2009.

They live in Grandbury, TX.

Brent ’01 and Sarah (Hartberg) ’02

Johnson, a boy, Tanner Brent, born April 6,

2009. They live in Gaylord, MN.

Jayson ’02 and Jackie (Otterby) ’05 Plamp,

a boy, Ethan Michael, born March 27,

2009. They live in Sioux Falls.

Jonathan ’03 and Nichole (Griffith) ’02

Kennedy, a boy, Mason Stephen, born

February 12, 2009. Jonathan works at TSP

and Nichole works at KELO-TV. They live in

Hartford.

Crystal (Mohrhauser) ’06 and Travis ’04

Reith, a boy, Tyler Alan, born May 9, 2009.

They live in Avoca, MN.

Ryan ’07 and Stephanie (Erschens) ’07

Bouza, a girl, Kennedy Jo, born May 21,

2009. They live in Harrisburg.

GENERAL

Bruce Beier ’56 sold his dental practice in

1998 and for the next eight years was an

assistant professor at the University of

Minnesota dental school. He has now

retired to farming and training laboradors.

He lives in Freeman.

Max ’61 and Marilyn (Revell) ’61 DeLong

welcomed a granddaughter, Annabelle

Louise, on June 4, 2009. They live in St.

Paul, MN.

James Pew ’66/MS ’68/MEd ’78 was

fortunate enough to host two SDSU Jacks

baseball team members, Eric Cain and Erik

DeJong, during the summer of 2009. They

played for the Laramie Colts, a member of

the “summer ball” Mountain Collegiate

Baseball League. James lives in Laramie, WY.

Gretchen (Kapaun) Sealls ’68 retired in

December 2008 after a 35-year career in

international banking. She lives in Cedar

Rapids, IA.

Randy Maas ’82 is the pastor of the

Evangelical Mennonite Brethren Church of

rural Marion. He lives in Sioux Falls with

his wife, Kathleen, and son, Zac.

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CLASS NEWS

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Horstman ’02, Tyler Semrau ‘08

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McGuire ’08, Brian Welch ’94, Terry Starkey

Carter, Ryan, and Tyler, sons of

Bart ’96 and Becky (Wiederich) ’99 Brost.

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CALENDAR OF EVENTS

SEPTEMBER

12 Brookings, SD – Jackrabbit Advocate Leadership Workshop

12 Brookings, SD – 1999 Pharmacy ReunionOCTOBER

23 Brookings, SD – “Legends and Leaders” 2009 Distinguished Alumni

Banquet – 5:30 pm

24 Brookings, SD – Hobo Day – Donuts and beverages at Tompkins Alumni

Center – 8:30 amNOVEMBER

7 Brooking, SD – 1969 Pharmacy ReunionDECEMBER

15 Tempe, AZ – Women’s Basketball Pre-game Rally

FOOTBALL TAILGATES

SEPTEMBER

12 Brookings, SD – Alumni Tailgate Tent at the First Bank and Trust

Rabbit Den – 3:30 pm

26 Normal, IL – Alumni Tailgate Tent at Illinois State University –

4:30 pmOCTOBER

3 San Luis Obispo, CA – Alumni Pre-game Event at Lohr Winery –

10:30 am PT

10 Springfield, MO – Alumni Tailgate Tent at Missouri State University –

11:30 am

17 Brookings, SD – Dakota Marker - Alumni Tailgate Tent at the First Bank

and Trust Rabbit Den – 3:30 pm

24 Brookings, SD – Hobo Day - Alumni Tailgate Tent at the First Bank

and Trust Rabbit Den – 11:00 amNOVEMBER

7 Brookings, SD – Alumni Tailgate Tent at the First Bank and Trust

Rabbit Den – 10:30 am

14 Minneapolis, MN – Alumni Tailgate Tent at the University of Minnesota

SIOUX EMPIRE STATERS CHAPTER EVENTS

(SIOUX FALLS, SD)

SEPTEMBER

15 Sioux Empire Staters Luncheon – East 10th St. Pizza Ranch – 12:00 pm

21 Sioux Empire Staters Alumni Mixer – McNally’s – 5:00 pmOCTOBER

20 Sioux Empire Staters Luncheon – East 10th St. Pizza Ranch – 12:00 pmNOVEMBER

14 Road Trip to watch the Jacks take on the Gophers in Minneapolis

17 Sioux Empire Staters Luncheon – East 10th St. Pizza Ranch – 12:00 pmDECEMBER

9 Madrigal Performance at the Old Courthouse Museum – 12:00 pmJANUARY 2010

19 Sioux Empire Staters Luncheon – East 10th St. Pizza Ranch – 12:00 pmFEBRUARY

16 Sioux Empire Staters Luncheon – East 10th St. Pizza Ranch – 12:00 pmMARCH

16 Sioux Empire Staters Luncheon – East 10th St. Pizza Ranch – 12:00 pmAPRIL

20 Sioux Empire Staters Luncheon – East 10th St. Pizza Ranch – 12:00 pmMAY

18 Sioux Empire Staters Luncheon – East 10th St. Pizza Ranch – 12:00 pm

All events are subject to change. For more event information, check out

“Events and News” at www.statealum.com.

ALUMNI ASSOCIATION NEWS AND EVENTS

JUNE 26 – REDFIELD, SD

Alumni and friends around Redfield, South Dakota, gathered for golfing and dinner.

JULY 23 – MILLER, SD

Alumni and friends gathered at

the SDSU Cow Camp for an

open house and field day.

JULY 30 – WATERTOWN, SD

Alumni and friends gathered for a social at Lunkers with new Athletic Director Justin Sell and

plenty of Jackrabbit pride.

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James Jones ’83 was elected president-

elect for 2009 of the South Dakota Funeral

Directors Association at the annual

convention held in Rapid City. He and his

wife, Lori (Pankonin) ’85, own and operate

the Hofmeister-Jones Funeral Home in

Parker.

James S. Johnston ’05 graduated with a

doctorate of podiatric medicine from the

California School of Podiatric Medicine at

Samuel Merritt University in Oakland. He

will now serve a residency at the San

Francisco VA Hospital. He lives in San

Francisco.

DEATHS

1928 Eva (Haugen) Schutt

1932 Maybelle (Hanson) Riach

1935 Lois (Rose) Zimmer

1939 Robert H. Lower

1940 Dorothy (Cooper) Wagner

1941 Grant K. Gramstad

1941 Ethel (Rask) Wagner

1941 Lloyd E. Wagner

1942 Harold W. Grace

1942 Talwin J. Ruttum

1942 Evald "Ole" Gaard (Aggie)

1943 Ada (Bidwell) Yeager

1947 Leonard R. Willett

1948 Keith H. Weagel

1949 Ray S. Anderson

1949 Keith E. Wallace

1950 Harold V. Madden

1950 James W. Wyland

1952/MEd ’59 Richard L. Ziegler Sr.

1954 Patricia (Davis) Fossum

1955 Clayton V. Berg

1955 Ruth (Maas) Tuttle

1959/MS ’61 Carl F. Dauman

1959 Norman A. Larson

1960 Wallace Vande Wetering (Aggie)

1963 Jay L. Chiles

1966/MEd ’77 Harriet Dressen

1967 Eugene H. Gaddis

1967 Thomas E. Jewett

MEd ’70 Norma (Hein) Dannenbring

MEd ’70 Roy D. Jenkins

1973 Alan R. Bloom

1974 Carole M. Willadsen

MEd ’79 Esther (Warkenthien) Schroeder

1986 Kim M. McDermott

MS ’91 Judy (Holmes) Herron

1991 Clifton M. Nock

CLASS NEWS

STATE 41

JUNE 12 – BROOKINGS, SD

The Class of 1959 gathered in Brookings, South Dakota, to celebrate the golden

anniversary of their graduation from SDSU.

JULY 17 – SPEARFISH & DEADWOOD, SD

Jackrabbit alumni and friends gathered in the Black Hills for golfing, dinner, and an auction.

JULY 15 – PIERRE, SD

The annual alumni picnic was held at Steamboat Park.

ALUMNI ASSOCIATION NEWS AND EVENTS

The Jackrabbit will be featured in this year’s Capital One Mascot Challenge

television ads, which will be aired nationally on the ABC/ESPN family of

networks. Voting for the mascot of the year begins August 31. The winner of

the All-America Mascot Challenge will be based solely on the number of

votes the mascot receives online at capitalonebowl.com

Starting on August 31, Jackrabbit fans are encouraged to visit

capitalonebowl.com, or click on the Vote Jackrabbit button on GoJacks.com,

and cast their votes early and often, as there are no limits on the number of

votes an individual may cast.

All-America Mascot Challenge

for thevisit

capitalonebowl.com,

or click on the Vote

Jackrabbit button on

GoJacks.com

WHERE WE HAVE BEEN

June 14 Aggie School Picnic – Huron, SD

June 26 Redfield Golf Outing and Dinner – Redfield, SD

June 27 Elk Point 150th Celebration and Ice Cream Social

– Elk Point, SD

July 15 Pierre Picnic – Pierre, SD

July 16 Rapid City Meet ‘n’ Greet – Rapid City, SD

July 17 West River Golf Tournament, Banquet and

Auction – Spearfish & Deadwood, SD

July 23 SDSU Cow Camp – Miller, SD

July 23 Miller Golf Outing and Dinner – Miller, SD

July 23 Prairie Rep Theatre Preproduction Reception –

Brandon, SD

July 30 Watertown Social – Watertown, SD

August 13 Mitchell Golf Outing and Dinner – Mitchell, SD

August 25 Huron Meet ‘n Greet – Huron, SD

August 27 Sioux Empire Staters Jackrabbit Shootout –

Sioux Falls, SD

Watch www.statealum.com for more events

STATE 43

There are 4,743 SDSU alumni in western SouthDakota. Now they have an official alumni chapterthey can join—the West River Jacks.

For decades the Rapid City-based group had clubstatus, but that changed April 4 when the SDSU AlumniAssociation’s board of directors voted to approve theformation of the association’s second alumni chapter. Thefirst was the Sioux Empire Staters Chapter of Sioux Falls.

“With the growth in enrollment and the move toDivision I athletics, there is more interest in supportingand reconnecting with the University,” says chapterpresident Dan Dryden. “The chapter will provide thevehicle for the West River alumni and friends toaccomplish that connection.”

Becoming an official chapter means more than justchanging the group’s letterhead. “The chapter statusprovides us with nonprofit status,” according to chaptervice president Gary Jensen. “It provides accounting andauditing services for chapter funds.” The association alsomaintains a chapter database, allowing for easiercommunication with members.

According to Matt Fuks, president and CEO of theSDSU Alumni Association, the chapter status mightinspire more alumni to join. “It’s easier for folks to joinand participate if it’s an official chapter,” Fuks says. “Theysay, ‘Well, I’m an alumni, I can join.’”

While the status of the group has changed, somethings will remain the same; for twenty-eight yearsmembers have organized and sponsored a golf outing andauction. “Our desire is to have chapter members getinvolved so that we may continue to offer this event wellinto the future,” Dryden says.

Leading up to the change in status, the associationoffice in Brookings noticed a marked increase in WestRiver alumni activity. As examples, Fuks notes alumnimixers, game watch parties, a reception after the rodeo atthe Black Hills Stock Show, and a visit by the Jackrabbitfootball team for a scrimmage.

“They’ve dramatically ramped it up,” Fuks says.The move taken by the West River Jacks is one that Fuks

hopes other clubs will emulate. Likely locations for futurealumni chapters include Brookings, Minneapolis, Huron,Yankton, Kansas City, and Denver. “Interestingly enough,”Fuks says, “there has also been an inquiry from Malaysia.”

To find out more about joining the West River Jacks,contact the SDSU Alumni Association at 888-735-2257 oralumni@statealum.com.

Dana Hess

Chosen to lead the West River Jacks, a new official chapter of the

SDSU Alumni Association, are, from the left, vice president Gary

Jensen, president Dan Dryden, treasurer Bruce Nearhood and,

seated, secretary Dixie Serr.

West River Jacks become official alumni association chapter

44 STATE

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contact the SDSU Alumni Association:

888-735-2257 or online at www.statealum.com.

Visit statealum.com for a complete list of Sioux Empire Staters events

Mark your calendars and watch for more information, including

additional events and special guests attending from SDSU

• September 15 Luncheon at the East Side Pizza Ranch (12pm)

• September 21 Mixer at McNally's Irish Pub (5pm)

• October 20 Luncheon at the East Side Pizza Ranch (12pm)

• November 14 Road Trip to watch the Jacks take on the Gophers in Minneapolis

• November 17 Luncheon at the East Side Pizza Ranch (12pm)

• December 9 Madrigal Choir performance at the Old Courthouse Museum (12pm)

• January 19, 2010 Luncheon at the East Side Pizza Ranch (12pm)

• February 16, 2010 Luncheon at the East Side Pizza Ranch (12pm)

• March 16, 2010 Luncheon at the East Side Pizza Ranch (12pm)

• April 20, 2010 Luncheon at the East Side Pizza Ranch (12pm)

• May 18, 2010 Luncheon at the East Side Pizza Ranch (12pm)

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for more information about Home and Away tailgates!

8:30 am Donuts & beverages

Compliments of the Alumni Association Tompkins Alumni Center

9:30 am Parade featuring the award winning Pride of the Dakotas Marching Band

Bleacher seating available at the Alumni Center

11:00 am Alumni Tailgating at the First Bank & Trust Rabbit Den

Join us in the Rabbit Den (North of Coughlin-Alumni Stadium)

for tailgating fun before the game

2:00 pm SDSU vs. University of Northern Iowa

Coughlin-Alumni Stadium

GO TO WWW.STATEALUM.COM OR CALL 888-735-2257 FOR MORE DETAILS

HOBOS SAVE THE DAYOCTOBER 24, 2009