Summer 2005 - Wayne State College
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Inauguration<br />
of the President<br />
Richard J. Collings<br />
WAYNE STATE MAGAZINE<br />
Published twice annually for alumni and friends of <strong>Wayne</strong> <strong>State</strong> <strong>College</strong> - <strong>Summer</strong> <strong>2005</strong> - No. 2<br />
<strong>Wayne</strong> <strong>State</strong> Foundation - 1111 Main Street - <strong>Wayne</strong>, NE 68787
Table of Contents<br />
Message from President Collings ______________3<br />
Inauguration of<br />
President Collings ________________________ 4-5<br />
School of Education and Counseling ___________6<br />
Koyzis Named Education and Counseling<br />
Dean/Outstanding Teacher Awards ____________7<br />
Patrick Janssen: Full-time WSC student,<br />
KTCH News & Sports Director _______________9<br />
Spring Commencement/Senator Hagel<br />
Gives Commencement Address ______________10<br />
Hunter Receives Alumni Achievement Award/<br />
Metz Honored at Commencement ____________11<br />
Ettel Selected as NSCS Teaching<br />
Excellence Award Recipient _________________12<br />
Ghimire: Writing “Makes Me Come Alive” ____13<br />
Around Campus _______________________ 14-15<br />
Affairs/Business Degree Programs Receive<br />
International Accreditation __________________16<br />
Service-Learning Project Preserves<br />
One-Room School Memories ________________17<br />
Kneifl Named Head Volleyball Coach/<br />
WSC Recognizes Student-Athletes at Banquet __18<br />
Successful Spring for <strong>Wayne</strong> <strong>State</strong> Athletics ____19<br />
<strong>2005</strong> Homecoming - Decades of Memories/<br />
Friends with Foresight: A Little Nudge _______20<br />
Alumni Notes _________________________ 21-27<br />
Don `58 & Carol `52 Bremer _____________22<br />
Clara Ann (Peterson) Tennis `39 __________23<br />
Bob `50 & Beth (Hart) `49 Lutt ___________25<br />
Phonathon Recap ______________________26<br />
Northern California, Southern California<br />
and Florida Reunions ___________________27<br />
McCue Named Vice President for Academic<br />
ON THE COVER:<br />
Dr. Richard J. Collings was inaugurated as <strong>Wayne</strong> <strong>State</strong> <strong>College</strong> president Friday, April 15, at a 3 p.m.<br />
ceremony. Collings became the college’s 11th president.<br />
<strong>Wayne</strong> <strong>State</strong> Magazine is published semiannually for alumni and friends of <strong>Wayne</strong> <strong>State</strong> <strong>College</strong>. The magazine is funded by the <strong>Wayne</strong> <strong>State</strong> Foundation.<br />
Comments and letters should be mailed to: <strong>Wayne</strong> <strong>State</strong> Foundation, <strong>Wayne</strong> <strong>State</strong> <strong>College</strong>, 1111 Main Street, <strong>Wayne</strong>, Nebraska 68787.<br />
Administration<br />
Dr. Richard Collings<br />
President<br />
Dr. Robert McCue<br />
Vice President for Academic Affairs<br />
Carolyn Murphy<br />
Vice President for Administration and Finance<br />
Curt Frye<br />
Vice President and Dean of Student Life<br />
Phyllis Conner<br />
Vice President for Development and Executive<br />
Director of the <strong>Wayne</strong> <strong>State</strong> Foundation<br />
<strong>Wayne</strong> <strong>State</strong> Foundation Staff<br />
Deb Lundahl<br />
Director of Development<br />
and Alumni Relations<br />
Kevin Armstrong<br />
Director of Planned Giving<br />
Brian Lentz<br />
Accountant and Assistant Director<br />
Carol Marsh<br />
Foundation Office Assistant<br />
Cathleen Hansen<br />
Alumni Office Assistant<br />
Editorial Staff<br />
Judy Johnson<br />
Director of <strong>College</strong> Relations<br />
Trudy Muir<br />
Graphic Design Artist<br />
Angie Nordhues<br />
Writer, Photographer<br />
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A Look Back, Ahead with<br />
President Richard J. Collings<br />
Inauguration week was a celebration at <strong>Wayne</strong> <strong>State</strong><br />
<strong>College</strong>—“A Celebration of Teaching and Learning.”<br />
That was the theme of the April 15 inauguration of Dr.<br />
Richard J. Collings as the school’s 11th president. Dr.<br />
Collings recently reflected on his first year at <strong>Wayne</strong> <strong>State</strong><br />
<strong>College</strong>.<br />
Why ‘A Celebration of<br />
Teaching and Learning’<br />
I’ve been thinking a lot about the mission of <strong>Wayne</strong> <strong>State</strong><br />
<strong>College</strong>. One of the things we find in higher education is<br />
that we often look to others about where and how we should<br />
proceed. The mission we have at <strong>Wayne</strong> <strong>State</strong> <strong>College</strong> is clear:<br />
to provide an excellent education to our students in a way that<br />
reaches all of them, that encourages them to succeed in whatever<br />
field they choose.<br />
We have a faculty devoted to teaching, and small classes<br />
that allow faculty members and students to get to know each<br />
other. This interaction—teaching and learning—is the essence of<br />
what we emphasize and build upon. I would rather be a first-rate<br />
teaching college than a third-rate research university.<br />
Research is important, but it doesn’t make sense to always<br />
look to a research university as a model. My address celebrates<br />
and emphasizes the importance of teaching and learning.<br />
On his first year at <strong>Wayne</strong> <strong>State</strong>,<br />
and in Nebraska:<br />
When I interviewed for this position, I said I would spend<br />
much of the first year listening to students, faculty, staff, alumni<br />
and community residents. Most of what I have learned has<br />
confirmed what I sensed when I accepted the job—that <strong>Wayne</strong><br />
<strong>State</strong> is an important part of many lives and of the region. It gives<br />
me an underpinning of what we will see in the future, and a good<br />
base on which to build.<br />
We have had some pleasant surprises in the months we’ve<br />
been in <strong>Wayne</strong>. The weather has been one of those nice surprises.<br />
Both times we came to Nebraska last year, when I interviewed for<br />
the position in late January and again when we came to look for<br />
housing, it was snowing and there was about a foot of snow on<br />
the ground. This past winter has been much nicer!<br />
Another pleasant surprise has been the Nebraska landscape.<br />
There is a beauty to Nebraska that people don’t know about if<br />
they haven’t been here. We have enjoyed seeing the different<br />
areas of the state, and look forward to seeing more of it in the<br />
coming months and years.<br />
My wife, Marilyn, and I have been warmly received by the<br />
campus community, the town of <strong>Wayne</strong>, and the region. I like<br />
Nebraska. It has been a very welcoming state. I’ve found that,<br />
continued on page 4<br />
WAYNE STATE MAGAZINE 3
Dr. Collings...continued from page 3<br />
by and large, Nebraskans aren’t overly<br />
guarded in their initial interactions with<br />
newcomers. They have an openness that<br />
is refreshing. We feel like we’ve been<br />
well received.<br />
On the future of <strong>Wayne</strong> <strong>State</strong><br />
<strong>College</strong>:<br />
I want us to enhance our focus on<br />
teaching and learning. There are ways<br />
we can make significant differences<br />
in the lives of our students and the<br />
communities in which they will live and<br />
work after they graduate.<br />
In conjunction with that is an<br />
emphasis on enrollment growth. We<br />
need to increase our enrollment to an<br />
optimal level. We will continue to<br />
work to bring students from northeast<br />
Nebraska, the Omaha and Lincoln areas,<br />
western Iowa and elsewhere. I also<br />
hope that we can increase the number<br />
of international students at <strong>Wayne</strong> <strong>State</strong><br />
<strong>College</strong>. They bring diversity and a<br />
world view to the campus that is so<br />
important.<br />
With respect to short and long-term<br />
goals for the college, we need to look<br />
at opportunities for faculty scholarship<br />
so faculty members can keep current<br />
with the latest in each of their fields of<br />
expertise. Faculty and staff professional<br />
development opportunities are also<br />
important.<br />
With regard to regional service,<br />
we need to consider and pursue those<br />
regional service activities that fit with<br />
our mission and which don’t duplicate<br />
what others are already doing. I<br />
want the college to continue to work<br />
on relationships with the immediate<br />
community of <strong>Wayne</strong> and the larger<br />
region and state. Hand-in-hand with<br />
that, I would like to see more people<br />
come to campus and take advantage of<br />
events and activities that we are able to<br />
offer.<br />
Another ongoing priority is the<br />
budget. I plan to involve the campus in<br />
setting priorities. While the state budget<br />
appears to be in much better shape than<br />
it was several years ago, there are still<br />
financial constraints with which we must<br />
deal. We will have to determine which<br />
items are priorities, and where we will<br />
put our limited resources.<br />
Dr. David McFarland, president emeritus of Kutztown University, participated in the<br />
inaugural ceremony.<br />
Michael Collings, son of President and<br />
Marilyn Collings, performed at the<br />
inaugural concert.<br />
Inauguration<br />
of the<br />
President<br />
April 15, <strong>2005</strong><br />
“Let us fulfill our<br />
college’s mission and<br />
celebrate our role as a<br />
first-rate teaching and<br />
learning college”<br />
Stan Carpenter, Chancellor of the Nebraska <strong>State</strong> <strong>College</strong> System, provided the<br />
welcome and presented the platform party.<br />
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Steve Lewis, chair of the NSCS Board of<br />
Trustees, installs Dr. Collings as <strong>Wayne</strong><br />
<strong>State</strong>’s 11th president.<br />
Gov. Dave Heineman (right) offers congratulations to President and Marilyn<br />
Collings.<br />
Collings Inaugurated as<br />
WSC’s 11th President<br />
Dr. Richard J. Collings was inaugurated as <strong>Wayne</strong> <strong>State</strong> <strong>College</strong> president on<br />
Friday, April 15, at a 3 p.m. ceremony in Ramsey Theatre in the Val Peterson Fine<br />
Arts building on campus.<br />
Collings, who came to <strong>Wayne</strong> <strong>State</strong> last June from Western Carolina University<br />
in Cullowhee, N.C., became the school’s eleventh president since its opening in<br />
1910. At Western Carolina University where he served from 1996-2004, Collings<br />
was vice chancellor for academic affairs and professor of political science and<br />
public affairs. He is a native of Louisville, Ky.<br />
In his inaugural address entitled “A Celebration of Teaching and Learning,”<br />
Collings stressed the importance of <strong>Wayne</strong> <strong>State</strong> <strong>College</strong>’s mission. “Let us fulfill<br />
our <strong>College</strong>’s mission and celebrate our role as a first-rate teaching and learning<br />
college,” he said. “Let us support today’s and tomorrow’s faculty members who<br />
engage in a scholarship of teaching. And let us celebrate the students who have<br />
responded to their professors’ guidance, have become active and life-long learners,<br />
and have gone forth from <strong>Wayne</strong> <strong>State</strong> <strong>College</strong> to become productive members of<br />
our society.”<br />
During the inaugural ceremony, Nebraska Gov. Dave Heineman spoke, as did<br />
Dr. David McFarland, president emeritus of Kutztown University of Pennsylvania,<br />
where Collings served from 1989-1996. Steve Lewis of Lexington, chair of<br />
the Nebraska <strong>State</strong> <strong>College</strong> System Board of Trustees, conducted the investiture<br />
ceremony, and Stan Carpenter, executive director of the Nebraska <strong>State</strong> <strong>College</strong><br />
System, introduced the platform party. Norman B. Small, II, NSCS student trustee<br />
representing <strong>Wayne</strong> <strong>State</strong> <strong>College</strong>, gave the invocation and benediction.<br />
Immediately following the inauguration, a public reception was held in the<br />
<strong>Wayne</strong> <strong>State</strong> Student Center. Inaugural festivities began on Thursday, April 14,<br />
with a concert, “Campus and Community Present: A Musical Celebration,” in<br />
Ramsey Theatre. The concert included vocal and instrumental performances by individuals<br />
and ensembles from <strong>Wayne</strong> <strong>State</strong> <strong>College</strong> and the community of <strong>Wayne</strong>.<br />
A featured performer was Michael Collings, a professional jazz guitarist who is the<br />
son of President and Marilyn Collings.<br />
A reception in the WSC Student Center<br />
atrium followed the inauguration.<br />
Dr. Collings is congratulated by his daughters,<br />
Kelly and Kirsten.<br />
WAYNE STATE MAGAZINE 5
<strong>Wayne</strong> <strong>State</strong><br />
School of<br />
Education<br />
and<br />
Counseling:<br />
Meeting the<br />
Needs of the<br />
Region<br />
Over one-third of all students at WSC pursue programs offered by the School of Education and Counseling.<br />
<strong>Wayne</strong> <strong>State</strong> <strong>College</strong> was founded as<br />
an institution dedicated to producing teachers<br />
for the nation’s youth. Recognizing the<br />
pivotal role schools play in a well-functioning<br />
democracy, the state of Nebraska<br />
purchased the Nebraska Normal School at<br />
<strong>Wayne</strong> in 1910. This purchase was part of a<br />
statewide commitment to establish first-rate<br />
teacher preparation for Nebraska’s schools.<br />
Later, the state authorized the conferral of<br />
graduate degrees at <strong>Wayne</strong> <strong>State</strong> in order to<br />
prepare master teachers, school counselors<br />
and school administrators.<br />
Over the years, <strong>Wayne</strong> <strong>State</strong> undergraduate<br />
and graduate students have distinguished<br />
themselves in nearly every state<br />
across the country; in the process, <strong>Wayne</strong><br />
<strong>State</strong> <strong>College</strong> has developed a reputation<br />
for exemplary professional education programs.<br />
Today, teacher education remains a<br />
vital part of <strong>Wayne</strong> <strong>State</strong>’s mission. Over<br />
one-third of all students enrolled at <strong>Wayne</strong><br />
<strong>State</strong> pursue programs offered by the<br />
School of Education and Counseling.<br />
The School of Education and Counseling<br />
is composed of two departments:<br />
educational foundations and leadership, and<br />
counseling and special education. Innovative<br />
programs, including the Northeast<br />
Nebraska Teacher Academy and the newest<br />
degree program, the learning community-<br />
6<br />
format master of science in education in<br />
curriculum and instruction, are examples<br />
of excellence and responsiveness to our<br />
students, alumni and the region.<br />
Department of Educational<br />
Foundations and Leadership<br />
The department of educational<br />
foundations and leadership offers both<br />
graduate and undergraduate programs.<br />
Programs for undergraduate students<br />
include elementary education, elementary<br />
education with early childhood<br />
and secondary education. Programs for<br />
graduate students include a master’s<br />
degree in curriculum and instruction, and<br />
both master’s and education specialist<br />
degrees in school administration/educational<br />
leadership.<br />
The educational administration program,<br />
which prepares K-12 principals,<br />
and the education specialist program,<br />
which prepares superintendents, are both<br />
referred to as “hybrid,” where half of the<br />
classes are on-line and half are face-toface,<br />
traditional classes. These programs<br />
are taught and supervised by both college<br />
faculty and on-site practitioners.<br />
Department of Counseling and<br />
Special Education<br />
The department of counseling and<br />
special education offers both graduate and<br />
undergraduate programs. In counseling,<br />
undergraduate students may enroll in a<br />
program in human service counseling while<br />
graduate students may choose counseling<br />
programs in school, community and higher<br />
education. In special education, undergraduate<br />
students may enroll in the mildly/<br />
moderately handicapped K-12 program.<br />
Graduate students may choose the special<br />
educator option or the instructional manager<br />
option.<br />
Northeast Nebraska<br />
Teacher Academy<br />
The Northeast Nebraska Teacher Academy<br />
was founded in 2000. Over 550 <strong>Wayne</strong><br />
<strong>State</strong> <strong>College</strong> junior and senior students<br />
have participated in the teacher academy,<br />
averaging approximately 55 each semester.<br />
During its five-year existence, those students<br />
in the program have completed 2055<br />
substitute teaching days. This partnership<br />
among <strong>Wayne</strong> <strong>State</strong> <strong>College</strong>, 16 area school<br />
districts and Educational Service Unit #1,<br />
gives upper-level<br />
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Koyzis Named Education & Counseling Dean<br />
Anthony A. Koyzis, Ph.D., has been named dean of the<br />
School of Education and Counseling. Dr. Koyzis replaces Dr.<br />
Paul Theobald, who resigned last year to accept an endowed chair<br />
at Buffalo <strong>State</strong> University in New York. For the past year, Dr.<br />
Barbara Black has served as interim dean.<br />
Koyzis, a native of Cyprus, comes to <strong>Wayne</strong> <strong>State</strong> from the<br />
University of Wisconsin Oshkosh, where he has been chair of the<br />
Department of Educational Foundations in the <strong>College</strong> of Education<br />
and Human Services since 1999. While at the University of<br />
Wisconsin Oshkosh, he also served as president and vice-president/secretary<br />
of the faculty senate, and was director of international<br />
education and programs from 1994-1997.<br />
From 1996 to 1999, he was chair of the Educational Accreditation<br />
Council for Post-Secondary Educational Institutions, Division<br />
of Post-Secondary Education, Republic of Cyprus. He has<br />
been a visiting professor of education for the School of Humanities<br />
and Education at the University of Thessaly in Volos, Greece<br />
since 2001.<br />
Koyzis received a Ph.D. in Educational Policy Studies, a<br />
Master of Arts in International and Comparative Studies, and a<br />
Bachelor of Arts in Economics, Political Science and History, all<br />
from the University of Iowa. He has also studied at the University<br />
of London, University of Cyprus and Panteion University of<br />
Social and Political Sciences in Athens, Greece.<br />
Koyzis first heard about <strong>Wayne</strong> <strong>State</strong> from a WSC alum, Dr.<br />
Charles Wilson, the department chair at the University of Wisconsin<br />
Oshkosh who hired him. “<strong>Wayne</strong> <strong>State</strong> has a strong reputation<br />
as an excellent regional institution with a stable faculty,” he said.<br />
“The size of the school is very good—the number of students and<br />
faculty is a perfect fit for me. I also like the fact that the college<br />
serves both rural and suburban students.”<br />
As he begins his<br />
position at <strong>Wayne</strong> <strong>State</strong><br />
in July, Koyzis said he is<br />
looking forward to “continuing<br />
the good work<br />
that’s being done. I plan<br />
to serve as a good dean<br />
for the faculty and our<br />
constituency, including<br />
area partner schools and<br />
agencies with whom we<br />
collaborate. I also look<br />
forward to working with<br />
the diverse populations<br />
in the region, particularly<br />
Latino and Native<br />
American.<br />
Anthony A. Koyzis, Ph.D.<br />
“For the past five<br />
years, I’ve been involved with a full, collaborative program for faculty<br />
and students between the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh and<br />
the University of Thessaly in Volos, Greece,” Koyzis said. “It has<br />
provided wonderful opportunities for faculty and students from both<br />
universities for semester exchanges. I am interested in bringing that<br />
with me to <strong>Wayne</strong> <strong>State</strong>.”<br />
Koyzis and his wife, Cheryl, a nurse, are parents of a son, Angelo,<br />
who will be a freshman at <strong>Wayne</strong> <strong>State</strong> this fall, and daughter,<br />
Carolyn, who will be a junior in high school.<br />
Koyzis is looking forward to his new position. “I believe in an<br />
open-door policy,” he said. “I encourage alums to visit the School of<br />
Education and Counseling, and to remind us of where they are and<br />
what they are doing.”<br />
Newton-Hanson,<br />
Wassom Receive<br />
Outstanding<br />
Teacher Awards<br />
Two <strong>Wayne</strong> <strong>State</strong> alumni were recently honored with awards for their teaching.<br />
Receiving the <strong>2005</strong> Great Plains Communications Outstanding Teacher award was<br />
Neligh-Oakdale School teacher Lisa (Kai) Newton-Hanson, a 1988 <strong>Wayne</strong> <strong>State</strong> graduate.<br />
Newton-Hanson teaches business education at Neligh-Oakdale High School.<br />
Great Plains Communications chooses the outstanding teacher based on professional<br />
involvement, contributions and accomplishments in the teaching field, community<br />
service activities and the ability to inspire students. Newton-Hanson received a<br />
plaque and a $4,000 check as part of the award.<br />
Ruth (Huffman) Wassom, a 1974 <strong>Wayne</strong> <strong>State</strong> graduate and a kindergarten teacher<br />
in the Omaha Public Schools, received one of 15 Alice Buffett Outstanding Teacher<br />
Awards this spring. The awards, which include a $10,000 stipend and $500 in Mc-<br />
Donald’s gift certificates, are presented to outstanding teachers in the Omaha Public<br />
Schools each year. The award, presented by the Buffett Foundation, is named for the<br />
late Alice Buffett, who taught for 35 years in the Omaha Public Schools. She was the<br />
aunt of Warren Buffett.<br />
Wassom has taught in the Omaha Public Schools for 19 years at Beals, Castelar,<br />
and currently at Field Club Elementary School. An elementary education major with<br />
a music minor while at <strong>Wayne</strong> <strong>State</strong>, Wassom was nominated for the award by fellow<br />
staff members and parents of current and former students. “It is quite an honor, one<br />
that I appreciate very much,” she said.<br />
Congratulations to both Lisa and Ruth!<br />
WAYNE STATE MAGAZINE 7
Education...continued from page 6<br />
education majors the opportunity to substitute<br />
teach while earning their degree from<br />
<strong>Wayne</strong> <strong>State</strong>.<br />
Participating WSC students have the<br />
opportunity to supplement their regular<br />
field experience hours with actual substitute<br />
teaching assignments for which they<br />
receive payment and travel reimbursement.<br />
All exceed state requirements for substitute<br />
teacher certification, and participate in<br />
weekly Northeast Nebraska Teacher Academy<br />
seminars at <strong>Wayne</strong> <strong>State</strong>.<br />
The goals of the Northeast Nebraska<br />
Teacher Academy program are to increase<br />
the number of substitute teachers, to improve<br />
availability and equitable use of<br />
substitute teachers, to enhance the quality<br />
of instruction delivered by a substitute<br />
teacher in the participating school districts<br />
and to positively affect new teacher retention<br />
during the first five years of teaching.<br />
“This program dramatically increases<br />
the number of hours our teacher candidates<br />
spend in real teaching situations,” said Dr.<br />
Tim Sharer, professor of education and<br />
director of the program. “It also increases<br />
our opportunity to assess teaching performances<br />
and to keep students focused<br />
on areas requiring additional skill and<br />
practice. NENTA was designed to supplement<br />
the regular substitute teachers in our<br />
region because there has been a significant<br />
shortage of substitute teachers available. It<br />
serves to assist our students in developing<br />
their teaching skills and attitude by gaining<br />
valuable teaching opportunities, and<br />
through extensive training, support and<br />
experience in real classroom settings.<br />
“The programhas provided our students<br />
with an additional, authentic opportunity<br />
to practice what they are learning in<br />
their classes. Assessment of this program<br />
indicates that experiences have most positively<br />
affected both the teaching job opportunities<br />
and the retention of entry-level<br />
teachers.”<br />
Seventy-five more <strong>Wayne</strong> <strong>State</strong> students<br />
are poised to begin their experience<br />
in the Fall <strong>2005</strong> semester. Partnership<br />
school districts include Allen, Coleridge,<br />
Laurel-Concord, Hartington, Madison,<br />
Norfolk, Pender, Pierce, Ponca, Randolph,<br />
South Sioux City, Stanton, Walthill, Wakefield,<br />
<strong>Wayne</strong> and Winside.<br />
<strong>Wayne</strong> <strong>State</strong> Learning<br />
Community Master’s Program<br />
Just completing its second year, the<br />
master of science in education curriculum<br />
and instruction learning community program<br />
at <strong>Wayne</strong> <strong>State</strong> <strong>College</strong> is growing<br />
beyond expectations. A unique, 36-hour<br />
program offered during the academic year<br />
over two calendar years, the learning community<br />
MSE program is now being offered<br />
in Fremont, Blair, Neligh, and South Sioux<br />
City. A total of 260 students were enrolled<br />
for the 2004-05 school year, with 128<br />
graduates of the program from the Fremont<br />
and South Sioux City learning communities<br />
participating in spring commencement ceremonies<br />
on May 7. The program is fully<br />
accredited, just as the other graduate degree<br />
programs offered at <strong>Wayne</strong> <strong>State</strong> <strong>College</strong>.<br />
The learning community differs from a<br />
traditional master’s degree program in several<br />
ways, according to Dr. Carolyn Linster,<br />
coordinator of graduate studies in<br />
the School of Education and Counseling.<br />
“One of the attractive things about<br />
the learning community format is that it is<br />
located near the participants’ home,” she<br />
said. “Learning community participants<br />
typically meet for two full days (Saturdays<br />
and Sundays) one weekend each month<br />
throughout the academic year.” They do<br />
not meet during the summer months.<br />
A learning community is usually composed<br />
of 30 to 50 candidates. Early childhood,<br />
elementary, middle level, high school<br />
and special education teachers can make up<br />
a diverse learning community. Each semester,<br />
participants register for a prescribed<br />
set of courses, varying from seven to eight<br />
credit hours each term. Six additional<br />
hours of traditional, distance education, or<br />
on-line coursework are required to complete<br />
the program. Dr. Linster, Dr. Terry<br />
Hamilton and Dr. James Curtiss are the<br />
Members of the WSC learning community master in education program meet monthly<br />
throughout the school year.<br />
faculty facilitators of the learning communities.<br />
“I believe one of the most exciting<br />
aspects of the learning community design<br />
is that the teachers involved will have a significant<br />
impact on rural schools and communities<br />
throughout our service region,”<br />
said Linster. “This is a wonderful example<br />
of addressing our college mission of outreach!”<br />
Each learning community blends and integrates<br />
curriculum and supporting processes<br />
throughout the two-year program while<br />
developing collegial groups that collaborate<br />
and support learning, projects and applications.<br />
At the end of the program, each<br />
participant completes a capstone project<br />
focusing on an area of professional inquiry<br />
or interest.<br />
The learning community format is just<br />
one of several options in curriculum and instruction.<br />
Half of the traditional curriculum<br />
and instruction program is now online,<br />
which allows students to complete<br />
coursework from their home at a time that<br />
fits into their schedules. The <strong>Wayne</strong> <strong>State</strong><br />
ESL (English as a second language) program<br />
meets a growing need throughout the<br />
service region, and especially addresses the<br />
needs of minority populations. This condensed<br />
and accelerated program is offered<br />
off-site and coordinated with PreK-12 summer<br />
school programs in South Sioux City,<br />
Norfolk, Fremont/Schuyler and Hastings,<br />
where <strong>Wayne</strong> <strong>State</strong> partners with Hastings<br />
<strong>College</strong> faculty to deliver the program.<br />
Through innovation and quality programs<br />
designed to meet the ongoing needs<br />
of students and the region, teacher education<br />
and preparation at <strong>Wayne</strong> <strong>State</strong> <strong>College</strong><br />
continues to build on its legacy of excellence.<br />
8
Patrick Janssen:<br />
Full-time WSC<br />
student, KTCH<br />
News & Sports<br />
Director<br />
Patrick Janssen began his full-time duties at KTCH in May.<br />
The recently-named news and sports director at KTCH AM/<br />
FM in <strong>Wayne</strong>, Patrick Janssen is also a full-time <strong>Wayne</strong> <strong>State</strong><br />
<strong>College</strong> student who does play-by-play for Wildcat athletic radio<br />
broadcasts, is an award-winning sports editor for the <strong>Wayne</strong> <strong>State</strong>r<br />
newspaper and sports director of KWSC-FM, the campus radio<br />
station. He has also found time to participate in 12 WSC dramatic<br />
productions and was invited to travel to Denver to apply for the<br />
prestigious national Irene Ryan Scholarship as a result of his performance<br />
in “The Diary of Anne Frank” last year. And he plans to<br />
graduate from <strong>Wayne</strong> <strong>State</strong> in four years.<br />
“I’m glad I ended up here. You get so many opportunities<br />
to get hands-on, practical experience.<br />
You have professors who want to teach you and<br />
teach you well. Had I gone to USC,<br />
I wouldn’t have had the opportunities to do many<br />
of the things I’ve been able to do here.”<br />
“I promised my mom that I’d get through in four years,” he<br />
said with a grin. “I think she’s depending on that.” To make it<br />
happen, the senior-to-be from Auburn said he takes approximately<br />
18 hours each semester. “I decided late to be a journalism major,”<br />
he said, switching his major from theater. “I took Max McElwain’s<br />
sportswriting class and loved it, so I now have a double<br />
major in broadcasting and journalism.”<br />
At this spring’s conference of the Nebraska Collegiate Media<br />
Association, Janssen won seven Golden Leaf awards—five firstplace<br />
and two second-place—for his print and broadcast entries.<br />
Janssen is pleased he chose to attend <strong>Wayne</strong> <strong>State</strong>. “When<br />
I was looking at colleges, I narrowed it down to Doane <strong>College</strong>,<br />
the University of Southern California and <strong>Wayne</strong> <strong>State</strong>,” he said.<br />
“I’m glad I ended up here. You get so many opportunities to get<br />
hands-on, practical experience. You have professors who want to<br />
teach you and teach you well. Had I gone to USC, I wouldn’t have<br />
had the opportunities to do many of the things I’ve been able to do<br />
here.”<br />
While at <strong>Wayne</strong> <strong>State</strong>, Janssen started a local music show on<br />
KWSC (K-92). Entitled, “Get Local,” it airs on Sunday nights<br />
from 10 p.m. until midnight during the school year. “We play stuff<br />
from Nebraska, Sioux City, Yankton—all around the region,” he<br />
said. “There’s a lot of good music played locally, and it’s fun to<br />
support it by playing it on K-92.”<br />
Given his hectic schedule in the fall, Janssen said he won’t be<br />
able to fit in K-92 on-air stints. “It’s fun to hang out there, and I<br />
know I’ll miss it,” he said. “But sometimes you have to make hard<br />
decisions.” As KTCH’s news and sports director, he is in charge of<br />
news and sports programming for the radio station, and will be the<br />
play-by-play announcer for not only <strong>Wayne</strong> <strong>State</strong> sports but also<br />
for a number of area high school broadcasts. He will also be in<br />
charge of the station’s Web site.<br />
Janssen said he will likely not have time to act in WSC productions<br />
next year. “That has definitely been fun,” he said. As the<br />
Beast in Beauty and the Beast, Janssen said he was probably the<br />
skinniest Beast in history. “I felt like the Sta-Puf marshmallow<br />
man. They had to put a lot of padding on me to make me look like<br />
the Beast!”<br />
Pat looks forward to the busy year ahead. “It’s going to be<br />
tough working full-time and taking a full courseload so I can<br />
graduate, but I’ll try my best,” he said. “You learn by practical<br />
experience, and I’m grateful to have the opportunity to work at<br />
a professional radio station.” He will take just 13 hours the first<br />
semester, and finish with 18 the second semester.<br />
He is also looking forward to having his younger brother,<br />
Tony, on campus. Tony, who recently graduated from high school,<br />
has received both a president’s scholarship and an athletic scholarship<br />
to attend <strong>Wayne</strong> <strong>State</strong>, where he will be an offensive lineman<br />
on the football team and plans to major in math education. “I’m<br />
glad I can be in <strong>Wayne</strong> a few more years to be here with Tony,” Pat<br />
said.<br />
Eventually, he hopes to be a play-by-play announcer for major<br />
colleges or professional sports. “I love sports,” he said. “That’s<br />
why I got into broadcasting. I didn’t get into it to make a lot of<br />
money. I think if I’m able to support my family someday and<br />
enjoy what I’m doing, I will be successful. I’ll just let things work<br />
out.”<br />
WAYNE STATE MAGAZINE 9
Historic Commencement for <strong>Wayne</strong> <strong>State</strong><br />
U.S. Senator Chuck Hagel (R-Neb.) gave the address at <strong>Wayne</strong><br />
<strong>State</strong> <strong>College</strong>’s undergraduate commencement ceremony on Saturday,<br />
May 7, in the Willow Bowl on the <strong>Wayne</strong> <strong>State</strong> campus.<br />
Hagel, who is serving his second term as the senior senator from<br />
Nebraska, encouraged graduates to pursue their dreams. Citing<br />
Tom Friedman’s new book, The World is Flat: A Brief History of<br />
the 21st Century, Hagel spoke of the new challenges facing America’s<br />
ability to compete in a global marketplace, and of the important<br />
role that the graduates will play in shaping the world in which<br />
the children of today will grow up.<br />
It was an historic day for <strong>Wayne</strong> <strong>State</strong> <strong>College</strong>, with two commencement<br />
ceremonies being held for the first time in the college’s<br />
history: the afternoon baccalaureate commencement at which<br />
Hagel spoke, where 374 graduates received bachelor’s degrees<br />
from Dr. Richard J. Collings, WSC president; and a morning graduate<br />
ceremony, where 170 graduate students received master’s and<br />
education specialist degrees. The morning ceremony marked the<br />
first graduating classes of the WSC Learning Community master’s<br />
degree program, a two-year program offering a master of science<br />
in education degree in curriculum and instruction. A total of 126<br />
students from the Fremont and South Sioux City learning communities<br />
received degrees at the ceremony.<br />
Honored at the afternoon commencement ceremony was Ron<br />
Hunter, an Omaha attorney and a 1953 <strong>Wayne</strong> <strong>State</strong> graduate, who<br />
received the Alumni Achievement Award.<br />
Also honored at the afternoon ceremony was Sandra L. Metz,<br />
Ph.D., associate professor, who has taught home economics and<br />
family and consumer sciences at <strong>Wayne</strong> <strong>State</strong> <strong>College</strong> full-time<br />
since 1986. Metz retired at the end of the school year.<br />
About Senator Hagel...<br />
Chuck Hagel, Nebraska’s senior U.S.<br />
senator, delivered the address at <strong>Wayne</strong><br />
<strong>State</strong> <strong>College</strong>’s undergraduate commencement<br />
Saturday, May 7.<br />
Hagel, a Republican who is serving<br />
his second term in the United <strong>State</strong>s<br />
Senate, is a member of four Senate committees:<br />
Foreign Relations; Banking,<br />
Housing and Urban Affairs; Intelligence<br />
and Rules. He is chairman of the Senate<br />
Foreign Relations International Economic<br />
Policy, Export and Trade Promotion Subcommittee<br />
and the Senate Banking Securities<br />
and Investment Subcommittee. He<br />
is chair of the Congressional-Executive<br />
Commission on China.<br />
Prior to his election to the U.S. Senate,<br />
Hagel worked in the private sector<br />
as the president of McCarthy & Co., an<br />
investment banking firm based in Omaha,<br />
and served as chairman of the board of<br />
American Information Systems (AIS).<br />
Before joining McCarthy & Co., Hagel<br />
10<br />
was president and chief executive officer of<br />
the Private Sector Council (PSC) in Washington,<br />
D.C., deputy director and chief operating<br />
officer of the 1990 Economic Summit<br />
of Industrialized Nations (G-7 Summit) and<br />
president and chief executive officer of the<br />
World USO.<br />
In the mid-1980’s, Hagel co-founded<br />
VANGUARD Cellular Systems, Inc., a publicly-traded<br />
corporation. In 1981, President<br />
Ronald Reagan nominated him to serve as<br />
deputy administrator of the Veterans Administration.<br />
He also served as deputy commissioner<br />
general of the United <strong>State</strong>s for<br />
the 1982 World’s Fair. From 1977 through<br />
1980, Hagel was manager of government<br />
affairs for The Firestone Tire & Rubber<br />
Company, in Washington, D.C. From 1971<br />
to 1977, he was administrative assistant to<br />
Congressman John Y. McCollister, R-Neb.<br />
Hagel served in Vietnam with his brother<br />
Tom in 1968. They served side by side as<br />
infantry squad leaders with the U.S. Army’s<br />
Mary Ettel, Ph.D., was honored as the recipient of this year’s<br />
George Rebensdorf Teaching Excellence Award, awarded each<br />
year by the Nebraska <strong>State</strong> <strong>College</strong> System from nominations by<br />
the three state colleges—Chadron, Peru and <strong>Wayne</strong> <strong>State</strong> <strong>College</strong>.<br />
Ettel, <strong>Wayne</strong> <strong>State</strong>’s nominee, is a professor of chemistry at <strong>Wayne</strong><br />
<strong>State</strong> <strong>College</strong>, where she has taught since 1990.<br />
At the morning ceremony, Judy Stukenholtz of Wahoo and<br />
Cathy Kwapnioski of Columbus, both members of the Fremont<br />
learning community master’s degree program, spoke. Stukenholtz<br />
gave the invocation, and Kwapnioski gave the commencement address.<br />
In the afternoon, Jenny Kriens, a summa cum laude graduate<br />
from Omaha, gave the invocation.<br />
9th Infantry Division. Hagel earned many<br />
military decorations and honors, including<br />
two Purple Hearts.<br />
Hagel has received the <strong>2005</strong> Woodrow<br />
Wilson International Center for Scholars<br />
Public Service Award; <strong>2005</strong> American Association<br />
of School Administrators Champion<br />
of Children Award; 2004 Edmund<br />
S. Muskie Distinguished Public Service<br />
Award; the Atlantic Council’s 2004 Award<br />
for Distinguished International Leadership,<br />
as well as other awards.<br />
A fourth-generation Nebraskan, Hagel<br />
was born in North Platte. He graduated<br />
from St. Bonaventure High School, Columbus;<br />
the Brown Institute for Radio and<br />
Television, Minneapolis, Minn.; and the<br />
University of Nebraska at Omaha. He attended<br />
<strong>Wayne</strong> <strong>State</strong> <strong>College</strong> during the fall<br />
semester of 1964-65.<br />
Hagel and his wife, Lilibet, have two<br />
children, daughter Allyn, and son Ziller.
Hunter Receives<br />
WSC Alumni<br />
Achievement Award<br />
Ronald W. Hunter, an Omaha attorney who is a<br />
1953 graduate of <strong>Wayne</strong> <strong>State</strong> <strong>College</strong>, received the<br />
Alumni Achievement Award presented by the <strong>Wayne</strong><br />
<strong>State</strong> Foundation at <strong>Wayne</strong> <strong>State</strong>’s spring commencement.<br />
Hunter, who attended the University of Nebraska<br />
<strong>College</strong> of Law following graduation from<br />
<strong>Wayne</strong> <strong>State</strong>, graduated first in his law school class<br />
in 1955, serving as editor-in-chief of the Nebraska<br />
Law Review. Among the highlights of his law school<br />
years was when the Nebraska law school team, of<br />
which Hunter was a member, defeated heavily-favored<br />
Georgetown University in the finals of the<br />
National Moot Court Championship in New York<br />
City in 1953, denying Georgetown a third consecutive<br />
national championship. That team was the only<br />
Nebraska team to win the national championship in<br />
the last 50 years.<br />
Hunter served as a special agent in the Counter<br />
Intelligence Corps, serving in the San Francisco Bay<br />
area. He worked counterespionage cases and became<br />
chief of control of top-secret clearance investigations<br />
by about 100 agents in northern California. He wrote<br />
a book about the American Communist Party that<br />
was used to train agents and for which he was given<br />
the Army commendation award. He has published<br />
two other books and is writing three more.<br />
In 1964, Hunter started a law firm in Omaha.<br />
One of his early clients was John Coleman of Chicago,<br />
son-in-law of columnist Ann Landers. Hunter<br />
represented Coleman in a property rezoning matter.<br />
Hunter was elected president of the Western<br />
Heritage Society in Omaha in 1975. The society was<br />
attempting to convert the abandoned Union Station<br />
into a museum. Hunter led the efforts to open the<br />
museum, saving the depot from destruction. He was<br />
re-elected president of the museum for nine terms.<br />
After several years of financial struggle and against<br />
overwhelming odds, the museum survived and is<br />
becoming a world-class museum. In the founding of<br />
the museum and assuring its survival, Hunter gave<br />
about 1,200 speeches.<br />
Hunter lives in Omaha. He has four sons and<br />
two daughters.<br />
“We are pleased to present Ron Hunter with<br />
the Alumni Achievement Award,” said President<br />
Collings. “Ron’s many achievements are remarkable,<br />
and we are proud to recognize him as an outstanding<br />
alumnus of <strong>Wayne</strong> <strong>State</strong> <strong>College</strong>.”<br />
Ronald W. Hunter, shown here with President Collings, Vice President and Director<br />
of the <strong>Wayne</strong> <strong>State</strong> Foundation Phyllis Conner, and Director of Development<br />
and Alumni Relations Deb Lundahl, received the achievement award.<br />
Metz Honored at Commencement<br />
Sandra L. Metz, Ph.D, associate professor of Family and Consumer Sciences<br />
at <strong>Wayne</strong> <strong>State</strong> <strong>College</strong>, was honored at the WSC spring commencement.<br />
She retired at the end of the 2004-05 school year.<br />
Metz was a WSC faculty member since she first taught home economics<br />
classes on a part-time basis from 1977 to 1984. From 1986 to <strong>2005</strong>, she taught<br />
home economics and family and consumer sciences.<br />
During her tenure at <strong>Wayne</strong> <strong>State</strong>, Metz served as a member of the Northeast<br />
Nebraska Early Childhood Education Stakeholders group, and was an<br />
advisor for majors in interior design and family & consumer sciences education.<br />
She was a faculty advisor for the American Society of Interior Designers<br />
(ASID) Student Chapter, and co-advisor for the Association of Family &<br />
Consumer Sciences Professionals and the Nebraska Association of Family &<br />
Consumer Sciences/Pre-Professional and Graduate Student Section (1999-<br />
2004). She also supervised student teachers in family & consumer sciences.<br />
A native of Ewing, Metz earned a Bachelor of Arts in Education degree<br />
from <strong>Wayne</strong> <strong>State</strong> <strong>College</strong>, and master of science and Ph.D. degrees from the<br />
University of Nebraska-Lincoln.<br />
Metz has been active in community service activities, working with the<br />
ASID Student Chapter to help host and participate in the Fantasy Forest in<br />
<strong>Wayne</strong>, and has coordinated a number of service-learning projects for her<br />
classes. She is a member of professional organizations including: National<br />
Education Association, <strong>State</strong> <strong>College</strong>s Education<br />
Association, and the <strong>Wayne</strong> <strong>State</strong> <strong>College</strong><br />
Education Association. She has been a member<br />
of the National Council on Family Relations,<br />
Kappa Omicron Nu, Association for Career and<br />
Technical Education, Family and Consumer Sciences<br />
Teachers of Nebraska, American Association<br />
of Family and Consumer Sciences, and the<br />
Nebraska Association of Family and Consumer<br />
Sciences.<br />
Metz and her husband, Dean, a retired WSC<br />
faculty member, are parents of three adult children:<br />
Monica Metz, Matthew Metz and Andrew<br />
Metz. They have one granddaughter.<br />
Sandra L. Metz, Ph.D.<br />
WAYNE STATE MAGAZINE 11
Dr. Mary Ettel receives the Teaching Excellence<br />
Award from President Collings.<br />
Ettel Selected as NSCS Teaching<br />
Excellence Award Recipient<br />
The Nebraska <strong>State</strong> <strong>College</strong> System Board of Trustees selected Dr. Mary Ettel as<br />
the <strong>2005</strong> George Rebensdorf Teaching Excellence Award recipient. A professor of chemistry,<br />
physical science and mathematics, Ettel has been a faculty member at <strong>Wayne</strong> <strong>State</strong><br />
<strong>College</strong> since 1990.<br />
The Rebensdorf Teaching Excellence Award is presented annually to a faculty member<br />
who demonstrates innovation and leadership in teaching and service in the Nebraska<br />
<strong>State</strong> <strong>College</strong> System. Administrators, fellow faculty, students, and alumni nominate<br />
candidates.<br />
The award includes a $3,000 stipend funded through an endowment at US Bank.<br />
The endowment is managed by the Lincoln Community Foundation and is given in<br />
memory of George Rebensdorf, a former member of the Board of Trustees.<br />
Ettel also received the <strong>State</strong> National Bank Teaching Excellence Award, with a<br />
stipend of $1,000, presented to the <strong>Wayne</strong> <strong>State</strong> Teaching Excellence Award nominee<br />
by <strong>State</strong> National Bank of <strong>Wayne</strong>. The Teaching Excellance Award announcement was<br />
made during <strong>Wayne</strong> <strong>State</strong>’s commencement on May 7.<br />
Ettel received her bachelor’s degree in chemistry from Central University of Iowa,<br />
and her doctorate in inorganic chemistry at Texas Tech University in Lubbock, Texas.<br />
“Mary is clearly committed to the education of the students who study at <strong>Wayne</strong> <strong>State</strong> <strong>College</strong>. Without her guiding hand, these<br />
students would be confused and unsuccessful, and they have told me as much,” Dr. Todd Young, WSC associate professor of physics<br />
and astronomy, wrote in support of Ettel for the award.<br />
Ettel has been active on both the campus and in the community. Currently, she is a member of the Academic Quality Improvement<br />
Program Council and the Academic Policies Committee at <strong>Wayne</strong> <strong>State</strong>. A member of the <strong>Wayne</strong> Lions Club, Ettel has held various<br />
leadership roles, including secretary, sergeant-at-arms, and board member.<br />
Kwapnioski, Stukenholtz and Kriens Speak at Commencement<br />
Judy Stukenholtz<br />
Cathy Kwapnioski<br />
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Catherine ‘Cathy’ Kwapnioski, an English and Spanish teacher at Columbus High School, gave the commencement<br />
address at <strong>Wayne</strong> <strong>State</strong>’s graduate commencement May 7 at 10 a.m. in Rice Auditorium. Judith ‘Judy’<br />
Stukenholtz of Wahoo gave the invocation.<br />
Kwapnioski and Stukenholtz were among 126 students from the Fremont and South Sioux City learning<br />
communities, the first class to receive master of science degrees in education (curriculum and instruction) through<br />
the <strong>Wayne</strong> <strong>State</strong> learning community master’s degree program which began in 2003. Kwapnioski and Stukenholtz<br />
were both members of the Fremont learning community. A total of 170 students received graduate degrees during<br />
the ceremony.<br />
Kwapnioski, who has been at Columbus High School for 14 years, also teaches yearbook, is a junior class<br />
sponsor and a Latino student group advisor. Her husband, Leonard, a <strong>Wayne</strong> <strong>State</strong> graduate (BAE ‘93, MSE ‘97),<br />
is the director of technology for the Columbus Public Schools. They have two daughters.<br />
Stukenholtz teaches at Wahoo Elementary School, where she been a kindergarten teacher for the past seven<br />
years. Prior to that, she owned First Step Preschool in Wahoo, and has been the high school youth director at Bethlehem<br />
Lutheran Church in Wahoo for 15 years.<br />
She is married to Kevin Stukenholtz, a retired captain in the Nebraska <strong>State</strong> Patrol who is presently an investigator<br />
for the Saunders County Sheriff’s Department. They have three children and two grandchildren.<br />
At the afternoon commencement, Jenny Kriens of Omaha delivered the invocation.<br />
Kriens, the daughter of Jack and Rose Kriens of Omaha, graduated summa cum laude<br />
with a bachelor of science degree. She majored in speech communication with emphasis<br />
in corporate, community, and public relations and a minor in advertising. While at <strong>Wayne</strong><br />
<strong>State</strong>, she was a peer tutor for the Learning Center, vice president of Lambda Pi Eta, vice<br />
president of WSC Navigators, orientation coordinator/Ambassador, president and<br />
committee chair for Zeta Tau Omega. She is a member of Cardinal Key national honor<br />
society, GAMMA, Greek Council, Alpha Lambda Delta, was on the Dean’s List and participated<br />
in two WSC children’s plays.<br />
Kriens has accepted a graduate teaching assistantship at the University of Neb.-Lincoln<br />
this fall, where she will attend graduate school.<br />
Jenny Kriens
Anuja Ghimire:<br />
Writing “Makes<br />
Me Come Alive”<br />
Anuja Ghimire’s father, Bharat<br />
Prasad Ghimire, traveled from<br />
Nepal for Anuja’s graduation.<br />
When she arrived at <strong>Wayne</strong> <strong>State</strong> <strong>College</strong> in the fall of 2001, Anuja Ghimire had just<br />
left her home in Kathmandu, Nepal for the first time, and had just experienced the first<br />
airplane ride of her life. Following her graduation from a very competitive high school<br />
in Nepal, Anuja joined approximately half of her fellow graduates in attending college in<br />
other countries. She chose <strong>Wayne</strong> <strong>State</strong>, she says, because of its size. She knew nothing<br />
about life in America, and spoke very little English.<br />
Anuja planned to major in computer science at <strong>Wayne</strong> <strong>State</strong>, but those plans quickly<br />
changed. “When I took an English class from Katja Hawlitschka the first semester, I knew<br />
that’s what I wanted to major in,” Anuja said. She changed majors to psychology and English<br />
writing and her college career—and her life, she says—took off.<br />
Four years later, on May 7, <strong>2005</strong>, Anuja graduated magna cum laude<br />
with a bachelor of science degree from <strong>Wayne</strong> <strong>State</strong>. She is particularly<br />
proud of the four honor cords she wore on graduation—Cardinal Key,<br />
Psi Chi, Pi Gamma Mu, and Sigma Tau Delta—all honorary organizations.<br />
Throughout her time at <strong>Wayne</strong> <strong>State</strong>, Anuja served on the student judicial<br />
board, was a certified peer educator and a peer mentor, was president<br />
and vice president of the International Club, and was a member of the Explorers<br />
Club and Alpha Lambda Delta. She also worked at the front desk<br />
of Anderson Hall and at the information desk in the student center. “They<br />
called me ‘desk queen’ because I worked there so much,” she said, smiling.<br />
A published author, Anuja has been writing since she was five years<br />
old, and was only 15 when one of her poems was published in a poetry<br />
anthology in Nepal. A poem and a play that she wrote are included in a<br />
textbook in her native land, as well. “Writing makes me come alive,” she<br />
said.<br />
Anuja plans to attend graduate school, possibly at the University of<br />
Texas at Austin, Syracuse University or Columbia. “I’m going to take some<br />
time off this summer to decide where I want to go to graduate school, and<br />
to also do some traveling,” she said.<br />
Her father, Bharat Prasad Ghimire, traveled from Kathmandu to attend<br />
Anuja’s graduation. “In Nepal, we would attend all of her activities,” he<br />
said. “Now I’m here to celebrate in America.” Her mother and younger<br />
brother were unable to make the trip.<br />
Anuja said she is leaving <strong>Wayne</strong> <strong>State</strong> with mixed feelings. “I feel<br />
like I’m leaving a part of myself,” she said. “I loved the professors and the<br />
other students, and I want to thank everyone at <strong>Wayne</strong> <strong>State</strong> who helped me<br />
and made me feel so welcome.”<br />
Alumni Achievement Award<br />
The Alumni Achievement Award recognizes <strong>Wayne</strong><br />
<strong>State</strong> alumni who have outstanding achievements<br />
in their career and/or civic involvement, and have<br />
provided support to WSC. Please use the form to<br />
nominate someone you think deserves this award.<br />
Alumni Service Award<br />
The Alumni Service Award recognizes <strong>Wayne</strong> <strong>State</strong><br />
alumni who have enhanced the <strong>College</strong> through<br />
dedicated service, promotion and financial support.<br />
Please use the form to nominate someone you think<br />
deserves this award.<br />
Send nomination and supporting information to:<br />
Alumni Office, <strong>Wayne</strong> <strong>State</strong> <strong>College</strong>,<br />
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WAYNE STATE MAGAZINE 13
Around Campus<br />
<strong>Wayne</strong> <strong>State</strong> <strong>College</strong> student Heather Kushner of Omaha<br />
(right) played Alice in the Tim Kelly adaptation of Lewis<br />
Carroll’s “Alice in Wonderland” on campus. Kushner recited<br />
her troubles to the watch carrying white rabbit (WSC<br />
student Adam Hansen of Wakefi eld). The public attended<br />
performances of “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland” in<br />
April. The play was produced by arrangement with Pioneer<br />
Drama Services, Inc. Large groups of area school children<br />
visited the WSC campus to watch as Alice plunged into a<br />
world of talking animals, comic royalty and a frantic tea<br />
party.<br />
Nebraska <strong>State</strong> Poet William Kloefkorn reads from “Alvin<br />
Turner as Farmer’’ during the Plains Writers Festival at<br />
<strong>Wayne</strong> <strong>State</strong> <strong>College</strong>, April 21.<br />
Dr. Delphine Red Shirt presented “Censorship in<br />
Journalism’’ on April 21 at a <strong>Wayne</strong> <strong>State</strong> <strong>College</strong><br />
Multicultural Center Brown Bag Series presentation.<br />
A noted author, Red Shirt joined the <strong>Wayne</strong> <strong>State</strong> <strong>College</strong><br />
Department of Language and Literature faculty<br />
for the spring <strong>2005</strong> semester, teaching creative writing<br />
courses, while Lisa Sandlin,<br />
associate professor, completed a visiting<br />
professorship at the University of Texas.<br />
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President Richard Collings introduces panelists for the 13th<br />
annual legislative forum, co-sponsored by the <strong>Wayne</strong> Area<br />
Chamber of Commerce and <strong>Wayne</strong> <strong>State</strong> <strong>College</strong>, April 18<br />
on campus. From left are senators Matt Connealy, Pat Engel<br />
and Mike Flood. This annual program promotes access to<br />
regional Nebraska state senators. Area high school students,<br />
the public and WSC college students attended.
<strong>Wayne</strong> <strong>State</strong> Army ROTC Cadets<br />
Commissioning Ceremony Held<br />
On May 7, cadets Brandy Oppliger and Gary<br />
Hansen were commissioned into the Nebraska Army<br />
National Guard as second lieutenants through the<br />
Army Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (ROTC)<br />
at <strong>Wayne</strong> <strong>State</strong>. <strong>Wayne</strong> <strong>State</strong>’s Army ROTC is a<br />
cross enrolled program through the University of<br />
South Dakota’s Army ROTC Program. <strong>Wayne</strong><br />
<strong>State</strong> <strong>College</strong> ROTC cadets are full-time students<br />
at WSC but participate in military science ROTC<br />
classes with students at USD. The Army ROTC<br />
commissioning ceremony was held on the campus<br />
of USD where a total of nine cadets from the fall<br />
2004 and spring <strong>2005</strong> graduation ceremonies were<br />
commissioned. Three of the nine cadets—Brandy<br />
Oppliger, Lincoln; Gary Hansen, Butte; and Dustin<br />
Baker, <strong>Wayne</strong>—graduated from <strong>Wayne</strong> <strong>State</strong> <strong>College</strong>.<br />
Baker graduated in December. Shown above<br />
are, from left: Gary Hansen; NSCS Student Trustee<br />
Normal B. Small, II; WSC Professor Randy Bertolas,<br />
and Brandy Oppliger.<br />
Dorothy Weber, director of the WSC Learning Center, with a display on<br />
how tutoring affects the college, students, faculty and even the tutors.<br />
Weber said all 22 tutors helped with the information for the display at<br />
the Symposium on Democracy, April 21.<br />
President Collings talks with students at the Symposium on Democracy,<br />
April 21. From left are Amanda Hoff and Alyssa Walters, both<br />
of Norfolk; Jeremy Fajman of Columbus and Kelsey Koch of South<br />
Sioux City.<br />
WAYNE STATE MAGAZINE 15
McCue Named Vice President for<br />
Academic Affairs at <strong>Wayne</strong> <strong>State</strong><br />
Dr. Robert McCue was recently named vice president for academic affairs by President<br />
Collings. McCue was selected for the position after a nationwide search.<br />
McCue is a faculty member with 20 years of experience at <strong>Wayne</strong> <strong>State</strong> <strong>College</strong>. He holds<br />
the rank of professor in biology and was a faculty member in the math-sciences division for 10<br />
years before becoming graduate dean and associate vice president for academic affairs. He was<br />
dean of the School of Natural and Social Sciences in 2003-04.<br />
Under McCue’s leadership, <strong>Wayne</strong> <strong>State</strong> has participated since 2002 in the Academic Quality<br />
Improvement Project, a new process for accreditation developed by the Higher Learning<br />
Commission as an alternative to the self-study/comprehensive visit cycle of accreditation. He<br />
also supervises the Information Management office and Admissions office at WSC.<br />
McCue was involved in the early planning for distance education in northeast Nebraska and<br />
is involved in the implementation of distance learning on the <strong>Wayne</strong> <strong>State</strong> <strong>College</strong> campus. He<br />
has served on the Tri-<strong>State</strong> Graduate Center board of directors for 10 years and was involved in<br />
the planning of the Lifelong Learning Center in Norfolk.<br />
McCue received a Ph.D. from Tulane University in 1977, where he had earned a master of<br />
science degree in 1973. He received a bachelor of science degree in biology from Northern Arizona<br />
University in 1970. He served as an assistant professor of biological science at the University<br />
of Nevada, Las Vegas in 1977-78, after that he came to <strong>Wayne</strong> <strong>State</strong> <strong>College</strong>.<br />
Dr. Robert McCue<br />
WSC Business Degree Programs<br />
Receive International Accreditation<br />
At the recent annual conference of the International Assembly for<br />
Collegiate Business Education in San Antonio, Texas, the Board of Commissioners<br />
announced the granting of specialized accreditation of business<br />
degree programs to the School of Business and Technology/Business and<br />
Economics Department at <strong>Wayne</strong> <strong>State</strong> <strong>College</strong>.<br />
The accreditation recognizes the achievement of quality in the academic<br />
business programs. Quality assurance is measured by the accomplishment<br />
of the school’s mission and broad-based goals, the effectiveness of student<br />
learning that takes place and the operational effectiveness of the business<br />
unit.<br />
“Accreditation is recognition that an educational institution’s academic<br />
performance is excellent,” said Dr. John L. Green Jr., president of the<br />
International Assembly for Collegiate Business Education. “The assembly<br />
is especially interested in the outcomes assessment of education that takes<br />
place annually within the academic business unit. The accreditation process<br />
is one means of making certain graduates are well-equipped to join the business<br />
world.”<br />
“The accreditation is a major milestone for the School of Business and<br />
Technology/Business and Economics Department,” said Dr. Vaughn Benson,<br />
dean of the School of Business and Technology. “This accreditation demonstrates<br />
to all of our stakeholders that the Business Administration major is of<br />
high quality and that we are capable of demonstrating this quality through<br />
our outcomes assessment program. Business students can truly expect an<br />
outstanding value from a <strong>Wayne</strong> <strong>State</strong> education.”<br />
Based in the Kansas City metropolitan area, International Assembly for<br />
Collegiate Business Education is an internationally recognized, prominent<br />
accrediting body for business and business-related degree programs in fouryear<br />
and graduate level institutions.<br />
<strong>Wayne</strong> <strong>State</strong> joins a growing list of nearly 200 IACBE member institutions<br />
in the United <strong>State</strong>s and internationally that support quality assurance<br />
in business education.<br />
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The one-room schoolhouse remains<br />
more than a vivid memory with the Mamie<br />
McCorkindale Schoolhouse Museum<br />
located northeast of the student center on<br />
campus. One-room school teachers will<br />
have their biographies preserved within the<br />
school through a writing project by <strong>Wayne</strong><br />
<strong>State</strong> <strong>College</strong> students.<br />
The most signifi cant part of<br />
the project was presenting the<br />
biographies to the individuals<br />
and seeing the pride in<br />
their eyes.<br />
Approximately 35 students participated<br />
in a WSC service-learning project with<br />
support from a Learn and Serve America<br />
Higher Education Grant from the Corporation<br />
for National and Community Service<br />
with assistance from Dr. Jean Karlen, WSC<br />
service-learning coordinator. Karen Sweeney<br />
wrote the original grant for the project.<br />
Sweeney and fellow WSC faculty<br />
member Ruth Schumacher instructed their<br />
students to interview schoolhouse instructors<br />
and create 15 to 20 biographies for<br />
possible inclusion within the schoolhouse<br />
on campus. The teachers with biographies<br />
Service-Learning<br />
Project Preserves<br />
One-Room School<br />
Memories<br />
<strong>Wayne</strong> <strong>State</strong> student<br />
writer Bonnie Cech,<br />
Clarkson, fi lls out her<br />
name tag as WSC instructor<br />
Ruth Schumacher;<br />
Esther Mohnsen, former<br />
one-room schoolhouse<br />
teacher; WSC instructor<br />
Karen Sweeney and WSC<br />
student writer Kris Bahns,<br />
Norfolk, talk during a tea<br />
at the campus library.<br />
selected and the WSC student authors<br />
attended a tea in their honor on campus in<br />
April.<br />
“I came up with the idea after my<br />
brother-in-law was interviewed at a nursing<br />
home by high school students and<br />
presented with his biography. He was so<br />
thrilled that his history was recorded,’’<br />
Sweeney said. “The idea came to me that<br />
this would be a great way for my students<br />
to enhance their verbal skills by interviewing<br />
and writing papers. This was also a<br />
great way to provide a service to elders and<br />
make them feel good about their lives and<br />
accomplishments. The most significant<br />
part of the project was presenting the biographies<br />
to the individuals and seeing the<br />
pride in their eyes. The selected writings<br />
housed at the schoolhouse on campus will<br />
become a part of the artifacts that groups<br />
experience when they tour the schoolhouse.’’<br />
Dr. Barb Black, interim dean of the<br />
School of Education and Counseling, said<br />
she and other <strong>Wayne</strong> <strong>State</strong> instructors Dr.<br />
Dennis Lichty and Dr. Jim Curtiss also<br />
plan to continue involvement with the<br />
project. Both Black and Lichty taught in<br />
one-room schools in Antelope County.<br />
While the biographies of these educators<br />
are on display, their lives continue to<br />
recite details about early education within<br />
the many schoolrooms that resemble the<br />
restored schoolhouse on campus, once<br />
called the Dilts School. The one-room<br />
schoolhouse became part of the campus<br />
and was renamed the Mamie McCorkindale<br />
Rural School and dedicated on July 2,<br />
1966. McCorkindale was a rural teacher<br />
and a <strong>Wayne</strong> <strong>State</strong> teacher from 1920 to<br />
1949. She, John G. Neihardt and former<br />
Nebraska governor, Val Peterson attended<br />
the 1966 dedication.<br />
Built in 1880, the school served as<br />
District 13 in <strong>Wayne</strong> County for almost 80<br />
years. It was once located one and onehalf<br />
miles south of Wakefield. The <strong>Wayne</strong><br />
<strong>State</strong> Foundation purchased and restored<br />
the school with donations of furnishings<br />
and equipment, including a vintage stove<br />
and a merry-go-round outside, from alumni<br />
and friends of the college.<br />
Many school-age children have toured<br />
the school with imaginative questions<br />
about what life was like for children attending<br />
the school. For more information<br />
about touring the school, please contact<br />
Carol Stephens at the <strong>Wayne</strong> <strong>State</strong> Foundation<br />
office.<br />
WAYNE STATE MAGAZINE 17
Scott Kneifl<br />
Kneifl Named Head Volleyball Coach<br />
<strong>Wayne</strong> <strong>State</strong> <strong>College</strong> athletic director Eric Schoh has announced that Scott Kneifl has<br />
been named head volleyball coach of the Wildcats, effective July 1. Kneifl, an assistant volleyball<br />
coach with <strong>Wayne</strong> <strong>State</strong> for the past two seasons, was named interim head volleyball<br />
coach in April when Sharon Vanis resigned to take a coaching position at Hamilton High<br />
School in Chandler, Ariz.<br />
Kneifl, a native of Newcastle, has 10 years of coaching experience at the high school<br />
and college level. He served as the head volleyball coach at Allen High School for three<br />
seasons (1995-97) before making the jump to the collegiate level as an assistant coach at<br />
Doane <strong>College</strong> in 1997-98. Kneifl then served as the head volleyball coach at Dorchester<br />
(1998-99), Millard South (1999-2001) and Pender High School (2001-2003) before coming<br />
to <strong>Wayne</strong> <strong>State</strong>, where he served as an assistant coach under Coach Vanis for the past two<br />
seasons before being named head coach following a formal search.<br />
Kneifl takes over a team that was 20-14 in 2004 and lost just two players to<br />
graduation.<br />
Vanis was 214-212 in her 12 seasons as head volleyball coach at WSC.<br />
<strong>Wayne</strong> <strong>State</strong><br />
Recognizes<br />
Student-athletes<br />
at Banquet<br />
Brett Watson<br />
Chelse Schultz<br />
The <strong>Wayne</strong> <strong>State</strong> <strong>College</strong> athletic department recognized its top student-athletes for the 2004-<br />
05 school year May 1, during its annual athletic honors banquet held at the WSC Student Center.<br />
Longtime Millard South football coach Marty Going, a 1973 graduate of WSC, was the featured<br />
speaker for the event.<br />
Basketball player Brett Watson was named the Male Athlete of the Year while volleyball<br />
player Chelse Schultz received the Female Athlete of the Year Award. The Male Freshman Athlete<br />
of the Year was awarded to cross country and track standout Matt Schneider with volleyball player<br />
Laura Dolezal claiming the Female Freshman Athlete of the Year honors. The first-ever Wildcat<br />
Inspiration Award was given to women’s soccer player Kelly O’Connor. She was a starter for the<br />
2004 WSC women’s soccer team while her husband, Shane, was serving in Iraq. The couple also<br />
have a two-year-old son, Ty.<br />
Watson, a senior from Elk Horn, Iowa, received First Team All-NSIC honors this past season,<br />
averaging 16.4 points per game. He was also named to the Omaha World-Herald All-Nebraska<br />
NCAA Division II First Team. He started all 27 games as a senior and finished his WSC career<br />
ranked 13th on the all-time scoring list with 1,208 points.<br />
Schultz, a senior from Elkhorn, was named First Team All-NSIC and First Team All-Nebraska<br />
Omaha World Herald during her senior season. She was a three-year starter who finished her<br />
career ranked seventh in career attacks (2,994) and kills (1,092). Schultz was also a Presidential<br />
Scholar Athlete and selected to the NSIC All-Academic Team.<br />
Dolezal, a freshman from Columbus, had a stellar first season with the Wildcat volleyball program,<br />
recording 540 digs from her libero position. She had the third-most digs in school history<br />
for a single season. She was named First Team All-Nebraska by the Omaha World-Herald and was<br />
named the NSIC Defensive Player of the Week three times. Dolezal averaged 4.43 digs per game<br />
to rank fourth in the NSIC.<br />
Schneider, a freshman from Nebraska City, started his freshman season at WSC with a third<br />
place finish at the NSIC Cross Country Championships last fall to earn First Team All-NSIC<br />
honors. At the NSIC Indoor Track and Field Championships, Schneider was the winner in the<br />
one mile run and 5,000 meter run and ran a leg on the winning distance medley relay team, taking<br />
first in three events to earn three All-NSIC awards. At the NSIC Outdoor Track Championships<br />
in May, Schneider was the only men’s conference champion for WSC, winning the 3,000 meter<br />
steeplechase in a new school record time of 9:36.9.<br />
The Bob Cunningham Scholar Athlete Awards were given to Watson and track and field standout<br />
Jodi Rhodig. The Cunningham Scholar-Athlete Awards are named after the late Bob Cunningham<br />
‘39 and are presented to the top male and female scholar senior athletes.<br />
Two days later, Watson was recognized by the Northern Sun Conference as the <strong>2005</strong> Dr. William<br />
Britton Scholar-Athlete Award winner as the top male student-athlete in the NSIC. It was<br />
the first time that an athlete from <strong>Wayne</strong> <strong>State</strong> has received the honor since joining the league in<br />
1998-99. Watson will be recognized at the <strong>2005</strong> NSIC Hall of Fame Banquet in St. Cloud, Minn.<br />
July 29 and will receive a $1,000 post-graduate scholarship.<br />
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Successful Spring for <strong>Wayne</strong> <strong>State</strong> Athletics<br />
<strong>Wayne</strong> <strong>State</strong> <strong>College</strong> athletics had a<br />
very successful spring season on and off the<br />
field.<br />
The <strong>Wayne</strong> <strong>State</strong> baseball team wrapped<br />
up a third consecutive Northern Sun Conference<br />
championship with a 20-2 win over<br />
Southwest Minnesota <strong>State</strong> in the championship<br />
game. The Wildcats advanced to the<br />
NCAA Central Region Tournament for the<br />
second straight year and third time in five<br />
seasons, finishing <strong>2005</strong> with a 45-14 record,<br />
setting a new school record for wins in a<br />
season.<br />
Eight players were named to the NSIC<br />
All-Conference Baseball Team. They included<br />
senior pitcher Dustin Nilius, Omaha;<br />
sophomore pitcher Nick Schumacher, Neb.<br />
City; junior pitcher B.J. Wierzbicki, Ralston;<br />
junior catcher Chris Pedroza, Omaha; senior<br />
outfielder Mike Sorensen, Omaha; senior<br />
outfielder Brian Van Driel, <strong>Wayne</strong>; senior<br />
pitcher/designated hitter Russ Emerick,<br />
Topeka, Kan. and sophomore utility player<br />
Scott Bidroski, Omaha. Sophomore outfielder<br />
Dustin Jones, Dakota Dunes, S.D. and<br />
junior first baseman Ben Albury, Granville,<br />
Ill. each received honorable mention honors.<br />
Schumacher was named the <strong>2005</strong> NSIC<br />
Pitcher of the Year while Van Driel was selected<br />
the <strong>2005</strong> NSIC Newcomer of the Year.<br />
Van Driel was named First Team All-<br />
Central Region and was selected Second<br />
Team All-American by the National Collegiate<br />
Baseball Writers Association. Schumacher,<br />
Nilius and Sorensen all were named to<br />
the Second Team All-Central Region.<br />
The <strong>Wayne</strong> <strong>State</strong> <strong>College</strong> softball team<br />
finished the <strong>2005</strong> season on a strong note,<br />
placing third at the season-ending NSIC<br />
Tournament. The Wildcats finished the<br />
season with a 19-34 overall record and 7-7 in<br />
NSIC play. WSC had two players named to<br />
the NSIC All-Conference team, senior third<br />
baseman Jackie Harrison, Sloan, Iowa and<br />
sophomore first baseman Courtney Shanno,<br />
Omaha. Two other players, senior pitcher<br />
Whitney Wilczynski, Riverside, Calif. and<br />
sophomore second baseman Bre Parks, Kansas<br />
City, Mo. were named honorable mention<br />
in the NSIC. Wilczynski finished her<br />
WSC career as the school’s all-time strikeout<br />
leader and Parks was named to the NSIC All-<br />
Tournament team after going 6 for 10 in the<br />
league tournament.<br />
In track and field, the <strong>Wayne</strong> <strong>State</strong><br />
<strong>College</strong> women placed second at the NSIC<br />
Championships while the men’s team took<br />
fourth place. The WSC women scored 142<br />
points at the conference meet and had 10<br />
All-Conference performers, led by conference<br />
champions Lindsey Stockwell, Geneva,<br />
in the discus and Katie Wilson, Glenwood,<br />
Iowa, in the shot put. All-Conference per-<br />
formers included Stockwell (javelin),<br />
Wilson (discus), Tanna Walford, York<br />
(high jump), Rachel Roebke, Seward (100<br />
hurdles), Erin Oswald, Aurora (800 meter<br />
run), Nicole McCoy, Lincoln (10,000 meter<br />
run) and Erin Norenberg, Fremont (3,000<br />
steeplechase and 5,000 meter run).<br />
The men’s team scored 82 points and<br />
had four All-Conference performers, led<br />
by conference champion Matt Schneider<br />
(Brock) in the 3,000 meter steeplechase.<br />
Other All-Conference athletes included<br />
Heath Grone (Davenport) in the high jump,<br />
Jeremiah Herron (McCook) in the 3,000<br />
meter steeplechase and Ben Crabtree (Lennox,<br />
S.D.) in the 10,000 meter run.<br />
Two athletes represented <strong>Wayne</strong> <strong>State</strong><br />
<strong>College</strong> at the NCAA Outdoor National<br />
Track and Field Championships in Abilene,<br />
Texas May 26-28. Junior Lindsey Stockwell<br />
qualified in the discus for the second<br />
straight year at the national meet and placed<br />
12th with a top throw of 142 ft. 4 in. Freshman<br />
Katie Wilson qualified for the national<br />
meet in the shot put and finished 17th with<br />
a mark of 42 ft. 8 ¾ in.<br />
Wildcat athletes also excelled in the<br />
classroom as <strong>Wayne</strong> <strong>State</strong> <strong>College</strong> led the<br />
Northern Sun Conference Spring All-Academic<br />
Team with 34 selections. The WSC<br />
baseball team had 12 nominations, followed<br />
by women’s track and field (10), softball (8)<br />
and men’s track and field (4).<br />
<strong>Wayne</strong> <strong>State</strong> <strong>College</strong> finished the 2004-<br />
05 school year with 51 athletes receiving<br />
NSIC First Team All-Conference honors,<br />
an increase of 23 from the 2003-04 school<br />
year.<br />
The <strong>Wayne</strong> <strong>State</strong> baseball team won a third consecutive Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference championship, and advanced to the<br />
NCAA Central Region Tournament for the second straight year.<br />
WAYNE STATE MAGAZINE 19
<strong>2005</strong> Homecoming - Decades of Memories<br />
Most of us can use a little nudge now and then to do something<br />
we know we should do—like writing or updating a will. We find it<br />
easier to procrastinate than to accomplish the task and a good nudge<br />
can get us moving in the right direction. The reason we want to<br />
nudge you to obtain or update your will is because we have seen the<br />
difficulties that arise when a person dies interstate (without a will).<br />
We also know that many people who intend to include <strong>Wayne</strong> <strong>State</strong><br />
Foundation in their will fail to get their wish unless the bequest has<br />
been clearly stated in a valid will.<br />
We all have big plans for the disbursement of our estate, from<br />
taking care of our family to making a special gift to our favorite<br />
charities; but sometimes we have questions. Is there a way to reduce<br />
estate tax How should I give Can a bequest be specified for<br />
a particular use<br />
Legislators know that organizations like the <strong>Wayne</strong> <strong>State</strong> Foundation<br />
rely on private donations to support our mission. That’s why<br />
the law permits a 100% charitable estate tax deduction when you<br />
make a bequest to us in your will. You can give a specific amount<br />
or a percentage of your estate. The size of your estate may increase<br />
between the time you make your will and the time of your death; so<br />
giving a percentage may be more beneficial than giving a specific<br />
amount. Your gift can consist of cash, securities, real or personal<br />
property; anything from land to an art collection. Unrestricted<br />
bequests give the foundation the flexibility to use your gift for the<br />
general fund while a restricted bequest funds a specific purpose that<br />
is outlined in your will.<br />
The <strong>Wayne</strong> <strong>State</strong> Foundation recently received two major estate<br />
gifts. The Dewayne Gramley ’37 estate gift will fund the Albert G.<br />
20<br />
Make Plans to Come Home for this year’s<br />
Homecoming on September 30 and October 1!<br />
Everyone is welcome to join us as we recognize these alumni and friends for their time<br />
and talents. Please refer to the homecoming brochure for more details.<br />
WSC Outstanding Alumni<br />
School of Arts and Humanities – Lana Danielson ’72<br />
School of Business and Technology – Brian Wansink ’82<br />
School of Education and Counseling – Cora Lynn Fosler Malmberg ’87<br />
School of Natural and Social Sciences – Joe Painter ’81<br />
Honored Classes and Representatives<br />
1945 - Maxine Bartels Bobier<br />
1950 - Gene Willmott<br />
1950s Decade Reunion (1950-1959) - Dwain ‘55 and<br />
Carole ‘54 Tuttle Petersen<br />
1965 - Niels McDermott and Mona Carlberg Casady<br />
1975 - Regg Swanson<br />
1980 - Heidi Koening<br />
1985 - Beth Mason Ernst and Gina Gokie Jerauld<br />
1995 - Jim Murphy<br />
Swimmers Reunion: Ralph Barclay, coach;<br />
Doug Krecklow ‘74, David Noyes ‘70, Rich Draper ‘71<br />
and Tom Carney ‘76<br />
WSC<br />
Alumni<br />
Service<br />
Award-<br />
WSC Hall of Fame Inductees<br />
Friends With Foresight: A Little Nudge<br />
For more information contact:<br />
Deb Lundahl, director of development and alumni relations<br />
402-375-7209 • delunda1@wsc.edu<br />
View the schedule of events and who will be<br />
attending at www.wsc.edu/alumni<br />
Athletes: Ed Jochum ‘87 – Football<br />
Jeff Lutt ‘95 MSE ‘96 – Football and baseball<br />
Team: ’73 Baseball team<br />
Coach: Dennis Wagner 89-95<br />
Supporters: Gene and Janet Casey<br />
Carlson Memorial music scholarship and<br />
the Donald Linn ’34 estate gift will significantly<br />
increase the general endowed<br />
scholarship fund. Please consider making<br />
a bequest to the <strong>Wayne</strong> <strong>State</strong> Foundation<br />
and leave a meaningful legacy<br />
behind just like these two gentlemen.<br />
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your family can benefit from a planned estate gift, contact our<br />
director of planned giving, Kevin Armstrong. You can reach him<br />
at (402)375-7534 or by e-mail at kearmst1@wsc.edu.<br />
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WSC Alumni Notes<br />
Visit <strong>Wayne</strong> <strong>State</strong> anytime at www.wsc.edu<br />
(Towns and cities listed on these<br />
pages are in Nebraska unless<br />
noted or generally understood.<br />
All events occurred in <strong>2005</strong><br />
unless indicated otherwise. Efforts<br />
are made to keep our news<br />
current.)<br />
1949<br />
Adolph D. “Al” Leibert, Battle<br />
Creek, Mich., was inducted<br />
into the Hall of Fame by the<br />
Michigan High School Football<br />
Coaches Association. He has<br />
taught and coached in the Battle<br />
Creek area school systems for<br />
over 50 years. He was so popular,<br />
and particularly effective at<br />
helping smooth race relations,<br />
that the city designated Sept. 18,<br />
1993 as “Al Leibert Day.”<br />
1971<br />
Janet K. (Troxel) Ditzel and<br />
her husband Robert, reside in<br />
Loveland Colo. They celebrated<br />
their golden anniversary Sept.<br />
29, 2004. A reception and dance<br />
were held for family and friends.<br />
They are<br />
the<br />
parents<br />
of three<br />
children<br />
and have<br />
one<br />
granddaughter.<br />
Vance and Peggy (Howe ’73)<br />
Wolverton have relocated to<br />
Union, Ky. Vance has accepted<br />
the position of Chairman of the<br />
department of music at Northern<br />
Kentucky University, Highland<br />
Heights. Vance has spent the<br />
past 16 years at California <strong>State</strong><br />
University, Fullerton.<br />
1974<br />
Greg Kamp, Lyons, retired at<br />
the end of the school year from<br />
coaching basketball for 30 years.<br />
He was a coach at Lyons-Decatur<br />
Northeast for 24 of those 30<br />
years. His successful coaching<br />
career included five East Husker<br />
tournament wins and two state<br />
tournament trophies.<br />
1975<br />
Juliet (Schellpeper) Stern resides<br />
in Topeka, Kan., with her husband,<br />
Jerry. She is the regional<br />
controller at Morris Communications<br />
Company, dba WIBW<br />
Radio, Salina Media Group,<br />
Kansas Radio Networks. She<br />
handles the financial transactions<br />
for the eight Morris Communications<br />
Radio properties in Topeka,<br />
Salina, Abilene and Manhattan,<br />
along with the Kansas Agricultural<br />
and Information Networks.<br />
1978<br />
Leonard M. Adams, Fremont,<br />
is employed at Valmont Industries<br />
and was promoted to group<br />
president of its North American<br />
irrigation business and its tubing<br />
business.<br />
1983<br />
Diane P. Harris, Parker, Colo., is<br />
the associate editor in the Denver<br />
area for Quiltmaker magazine.<br />
She states that her WSC communications<br />
degree is serving her<br />
well.<br />
1986<br />
Kathy Kay is an instructor of<br />
public speaking, group communication<br />
and interpersonal<br />
communications at <strong>State</strong> Fair<br />
<strong>College</strong>, Whiteman, Miss.<br />
1987<br />
Major Susan (Blatchford-<br />
Thompson) Larsen returned from<br />
combat duty in Iraq in February.<br />
She served as the<br />
J-1 for the Iraq Survey Group-<br />
Baghdad, and was the senior<br />
personnel officer for the group.<br />
Susan’s assignment responsibilities<br />
included reporting to<br />
Mr. Charles Dulfer, director<br />
of Central Intelligence Special<br />
Advisor for Strategy regarding<br />
Iraqi Weapons of Mass Destruction<br />
Programs. She was awarded<br />
the Joint Services Commendation<br />
Medal for her service. This<br />
completes Susan’s third tour of<br />
duty in a combat zone. Her past<br />
service includes Desert Shield/<br />
Desert Storm (1990-91) with the<br />
101st Airborne Division and Operation<br />
Restore Hope in Somalia<br />
(1992-93) as a US Army liaison<br />
officer to the US Marine Corps.<br />
Susan is the WSC and USD<br />
ROTC Recruiting and Retention<br />
Officer. Susan and her husband,<br />
Jim (’84) reside in Vermillion,<br />
SD with their two children, Clayton<br />
and Reilly.<br />
1988<br />
Lisa (Kai) Newton-Hanson is<br />
the recipient of The <strong>2005</strong> Great<br />
Plains Communications Outstanding<br />
Teacher Award.<br />
Presenting Lisa with a plaque<br />
and a $4,000 check is Nick<br />
Strom, Great Plains plant/CATV<br />
technician. Lisa is a business<br />
teacher at Neligh-Oakdale High<br />
School and<br />
resides in<br />
Neligh<br />
with her<br />
husband,<br />
Bob.<br />
(See<br />
story on<br />
page 7)<br />
1991<br />
Melissa D. (Miller) Nelson and<br />
her husband John, announce the<br />
birth of daughter Kendall Cora,<br />
Feb. 3. She is welcomed into<br />
their home in Farmington, Minn.<br />
by sisters, Chloe (6), Paige (4)<br />
and brother, Pierce (2). Melissa<br />
enjoys being a stay-at-home<br />
mom.<br />
Lori Albrecht-MacPherson and<br />
her husband, Rod, announce the<br />
birth of their daughter, Rorie,<br />
Feb.21. Lori is employed by the<br />
<strong>State</strong> of Nebraska as a services<br />
coordinator.<br />
1992<br />
Denise (Gettner) Carle and her<br />
husband, Todd, reside in Council<br />
Bluffs, Iowa. They are the parents<br />
of two children, Joseph De-<br />
Hoyos (1) and Jeena Maya born<br />
Jan. 19. Denise is the director<br />
of social services at Bethany<br />
Lutheran, Council Bluffs, Iowa.<br />
1993<br />
George Schere and his wife, Melissa,<br />
announce the birth of their<br />
first child, Grant William, Aug.<br />
26, 2004. They reside in Omaha.<br />
George is a<br />
K-6 grade PE<br />
teacher at<br />
Papillion<br />
LaVista<br />
Public<br />
Schools.<br />
1994<br />
Lea (Calhoun) and Dave ’95<br />
Clausen announce the birth of<br />
their second son, Reece Brian,<br />
Feb. 17. They reside in Sioux<br />
City, Iowa. Lea is Foundation<br />
Executive Director at Mercy<br />
Medical, Sioux City,<br />
Iowa and<br />
Dave is<br />
employed<br />
by the<br />
South<br />
Sioux<br />
City school<br />
district.<br />
Ronita (Carlson-Kroeger) Jacobsen<br />
(MSE’98)<br />
and her<br />
husband,<br />
Shane,<br />
announce<br />
the arrival<br />
of son<br />
Logan<br />
Shane, Oct. 5. They reside in<br />
Plainview and he is welcomed<br />
home by Chance (4). Ronita is<br />
a Family/Consumer Sciences<br />
teacher and an adviser at Plainview<br />
Public Schools.<br />
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Make plans to attend WSC Homecoming - Sept. 30 & Oct. 1, <strong>2005</strong>!<br />
1995<br />
Keri (Kamrath) Lazure resides<br />
in Omaha with her husband, Joe,<br />
and their children, Caleb (4) and<br />
Aleah (18 months). Keri is in<br />
her 15 th<br />
year in<br />
the Army<br />
National<br />
Guard<br />
where she<br />
has the<br />
rank of<br />
firstlieutenant.<br />
1996<br />
Kendra (West) Larson and her<br />
husband, David, announce the<br />
birth of son, Isaac David, Sept.<br />
29, 2004, and welcomed home<br />
by Emma (5) and Alexander (2).<br />
They reside in Denver, Iowa,<br />
where Kendra is a home daycare<br />
provider.<br />
1997<br />
Jamie Vaughn has accepted the<br />
position of Assistant Compliance<br />
Director for the Department of<br />
Intercollegiate Athletics at The<br />
Ohio <strong>State</strong> University, Columbus,<br />
Ohio. He and his wife,<br />
Karin (Bullis ’98) have relocated<br />
to Dublin, Ohio with their<br />
children Kayla (8) and Tyler<br />
(2). Karin enjoys staying home<br />
with the kids and also operates a<br />
small home-based business.<br />
Chris Amundson and his wife,<br />
Angela (Arkfeld ’98) have taken<br />
over ownership of Nebraska<br />
Life magazine. The magazine’s<br />
mission is to celebrate the life<br />
and culture of Nebraska. They<br />
have moved the magazine’s<br />
headquarters from Hartington to<br />
downtown Norfolk. Chris had<br />
previously been employed by the<br />
magazine for 2 ½ years. Their<br />
company will also publish several<br />
regional tourism magazines.<br />
1998<br />
Matt and Kelly (Stroh) Milbrodt,<br />
Sergeant Bluff, Iowa, announce<br />
the birth April 12 of daughter,<br />
Marissa Marlyn. Matt is manager<br />
of organizational effectiveness/operations<br />
at Wells’ Dairy,<br />
Inc., LeMars, Iowa. Kelly is a<br />
HR Generalist for GELITA<br />
North<br />
America<br />
supporting<br />
the Sergeant<br />
Bluff and<br />
Chicago<br />
facilities.<br />
1999<br />
Tina (Iske) Wigington and her<br />
husband Chad are happy to announce<br />
the birth of son, Jackson<br />
Ryan, Dec. 22. They reside in<br />
Council Bluffs. Tina is the case<br />
management<br />
coordinator<br />
for Southwest<br />
8<br />
Senior<br />
Services,<br />
Council<br />
Bluffs.<br />
Greg M. Strohbehn and Jennifer<br />
Jarose were united in marriage<br />
Oct. 30. The couple resides in<br />
Omaha where he is a marketing<br />
consultant at Millennium Marketing<br />
Group.<br />
Jason M. Allen and his wife P.J.<br />
are happy to<br />
announce<br />
the birth<br />
of son,<br />
Carter Jay,<br />
Jan. 5.<br />
They reside<br />
in Sioux City, Iowa. Jason is a<br />
detective with the Sioux City<br />
Police Dept.<br />
Alumni<br />
Mini-<br />
Feature:<br />
Don & Carol Bremer<br />
WSC Alumni Notes<br />
On May 14, Don and Carol Bremer celebrated their 50th<br />
wedding anniversary with 175 friends and relatives at the Los<br />
Serranos Country Club in Chino Hills, Calif. In July, Don and<br />
Carol will take their three sons and their wives and all seven<br />
grandchildren on a 12-day cruise-tour of Alaska.<br />
Carol Rankin-Bremer was a 1952 graduate of Neligh High<br />
School. Don attended school in Leeds (Sioux City, Iowa) before<br />
moving to Nebraska, where he was a 1952 graduate of Laurel<br />
High School. Carol and Don met at <strong>Wayne</strong> <strong>State</strong> Teachers <strong>College</strong>,<br />
as it was then called.<br />
After serving two years in the Army during the Korean<br />
Conflict, Don completed his degree and the couple moved to<br />
Chino, Calif. Don worked for the Chino Unified School District<br />
for 35 years, first as a drafting and mathematics teacher,<br />
followed by 27 years as a Chino school administrator. He was<br />
principal of Chino’s Boys Republic High School for 15 of those<br />
years.<br />
Carol taught in both Laurel and Norfolk (Neb.) schools<br />
prior to their move to California. In California, she taught in<br />
both Chino and Montclair, and also served as counselor in the<br />
Ontario-Montclair Schools for many years. Both Don and Carol<br />
retired from education some 15 years ago to concentrate on their<br />
rental property business.<br />
Don and Carol enjoy charitable gifting, and have set up a<br />
charitable foundation to further advance some of their favorite<br />
charities. They are appreciative of the schooling received at<br />
<strong>Wayne</strong> <strong>State</strong>. Because they strongly believe in the advantages<br />
of a college education, and because they have enjoyed careers in<br />
the field of education, Don and Carol have established a $20,000<br />
<strong>Wayne</strong> <strong>State</strong> Scholarship Endowment Fund that will provide for<br />
an annual $1,000 scholarship to a student from either Laurel or<br />
Neligh who enrolls at <strong>Wayne</strong> <strong>State</strong> to major in education. Its<br />
first recipient will be an enrollee for the 2006 school year.<br />
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WSC Alumni Notes<br />
Wendi Leth and Justin Sanny<br />
were united in marriage Sept. 18<br />
and reside in Keller, Texas. He<br />
is employed by CSCD of Tarrant<br />
County as a probation officer.<br />
She is employed<br />
by Ben<br />
Hogan<br />
Sports<br />
Therapy<br />
Institute<br />
as a<br />
physical<br />
therapist.<br />
Heather (Nichols) Reinhardt<br />
and her husband, Tim, reside in<br />
<strong>Wayne</strong> and are the parents of a<br />
son, Tyler<br />
(2). Heather<br />
is employed<br />
at WSC as<br />
an office<br />
assistant in<br />
the Career<br />
Services<br />
office.<br />
2000<br />
Benjamin and Kristene (Strait<br />
’01) Partlow, Gillette, Wyo.,<br />
announce the birth of first child,<br />
Ella Rhiann, Dec. 20. Benjamin<br />
is the financial manager at<br />
Novus<br />
Windshield<br />
Repair/<br />
Replacement<br />
and Kristene<br />
is property<br />
manager at<br />
Apple Self<br />
Storage.<br />
2001<br />
Tami (Hanson) Urwin and her<br />
husband Chad are pleased to<br />
announce the birth of daughter,<br />
Ragan Ilene, Oct. 10. They<br />
reside in Lincoln and Tami is a<br />
consolidation<br />
specialist at<br />
Nelnet,<br />
Lincoln.<br />
Russell and Jessica (Hasty)<br />
Frazey,<br />
Des<br />
Moines,<br />
Iowa,<br />
announce<br />
the birth<br />
of son, Ajay Robert, Aug. 11.<br />
Russell is the general manger at<br />
Team Fitness Training Center<br />
and Jessica is a registered nurse<br />
for the Iowa Health System.<br />
Kara Grant and Lewis Grage<br />
were united<br />
in marriage<br />
May 14.<br />
The couple<br />
resides in<br />
Remsen,<br />
Iowa.<br />
Lewis is a<br />
selfemployed<br />
carpenter and farmer<br />
Alumni Mini-Feature:<br />
Clara Ann (Peterson) Tennis<br />
and Kara is a carpenter’s assistant.<br />
Michael and Trisha (Casey ’02)<br />
Gordon reside in Loveland,<br />
Colo. He is a foreman for Creative<br />
Construction and<br />
she is a<br />
podiatry<br />
assistant<br />
at A Step<br />
Ahead<br />
Foot &<br />
Ankle<br />
Center in<br />
Fort Collins.<br />
Clara Ann (Peterson) Tennis, who received her teaching<br />
certificate while a student at <strong>Wayne</strong> <strong>State</strong> <strong>College</strong> from 1937<br />
to 1939, looks back with fondness on her years at <strong>Wayne</strong>.<br />
“I enjoyed my friends and classes at <strong>Wayne</strong> very much,”<br />
she said. “I especially remember the classes under Prof.<br />
Judson Q. Owen and taking his journalism classes. I worked<br />
on the college paper, The Goldenrod, and wrote the ‘gossip’<br />
column about Pile dormitory for every issue, using my high<br />
school nickname, Peter Ann. Many of my classmates knew<br />
me only by that name.”<br />
After her two years at <strong>Wayne</strong>, Clara Ann taught in a oneroom<br />
school in Burt County, boarding with a family during the week. “I earned $60 a month for the<br />
nine months, and had to pay $20 a month for my room and board,” she recalls. In the fall of 1940,<br />
she enrolled at the University of Nebraska in Lincoln with her sister, Doris.<br />
An offer from her aunt Ellen, who lived in Washington, D.C., and who was deaf, led Clara Ann<br />
to what was to become her life’s profession, teaching school for the hearing-impaired. She and her<br />
aunt attended a conference, after which Clara Ann knew that she wanted to teach those who were<br />
hearing-impaired. She received a full scholarship to attend Gallaudet University in Washington,<br />
D.C., the only liberal arts college for the deaf in the world.<br />
After receiving her master’s degree in 1943, she taught two years at the Maryland <strong>State</strong> School<br />
for the Deaf in Frederick, the Illinois School for the Deaf in Jacksonville, and the California School<br />
for the Deaf in Berkeley, where she taught from 1947 to 1974, when she took early retirement.<br />
While at Berkeley, Clara Ann met Barry (Cecil Barrington Tennis), who had been blinded in<br />
the Battle of the Bulge in World War II. He was attending the University of California and needed<br />
readers for his classes. Clara Ann signed up, and the rest was history. They were married in 1952 in<br />
Tekamah, Neb. They had one son, Jon Barrington Tennis, who was born in 1958.<br />
After her retirement, Clara Ann and Barry traveled extensively, including trips to Sweden, as<br />
well as trips to England, France, Belgium and Germany with Barry’s 99th Infantry Division Association.<br />
“The Belgian and English people we met were so appreciative of what the American soldiers<br />
had done for them,” Clara Ann said. “Barry was very touched by their actions and comments, and<br />
he said that he finally felt that it ‘had all been worthwhile.’”<br />
Since Barry’s death in 2001, Clara Ann continues to live in their home in Piedmont, Calif. “I<br />
continue to travel, often taking the family with me, and am enjoying my hobbies and friends and<br />
family,” she said.<br />
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2002<br />
Brenda (Leiting) Simpson and her<br />
husband, Nathan, announce the<br />
birth of son, Schuyler John, Feb.<br />
18. They reside in Pierce.<br />
Brenda is a<br />
special<br />
education<br />
teacher at<br />
Norfolk Jr.<br />
High,<br />
Norfolk.<br />
Samantha A. (Volguardsen) Wolfe<br />
and her husband, Brian, announce<br />
the birth Dec. 4 of their first<br />
child, Karter Lee. They reside in<br />
Pierce. Samantha is employed as<br />
an advisor/recruiter for Northeast<br />
Community <strong>College</strong>, Norfolk.<br />
Kari Conway and Josh Madsen<br />
were married and reside in Blair.<br />
She is<br />
employed<br />
with the<br />
Nebraska<br />
Dept. of<br />
Educational<br />
Vocational<br />
Rehabilitation.<br />
Kristin Jareske and Chris Hoesing<br />
were united in marriage on July<br />
31. She is an adjunct<br />
instructor<br />
at Des<br />
Moines<br />
Area<br />
Community<br />
<strong>College</strong>,<br />
Ankeny.<br />
The couple<br />
resides in<br />
West Des<br />
Moines, Iowa.<br />
2003<br />
Michelle M. McQuistan resides<br />
in Fremont. She is employed at<br />
Big Brother Big Sisters of the<br />
Midlands, Omaha, as the school<br />
based mentoring program coordinator.<br />
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Kandi Epperson is a PE teacher<br />
at Stout Elementary School,<br />
Topeka, Kan. She was honored<br />
by her community when they<br />
recognized 30 Women Under the<br />
Age of 30. Her nominee praised<br />
Kandi for her commitment to<br />
youth. This year Kandi is the<br />
leader of a reading group for kindergartners<br />
and she volunteered<br />
and organized an after-school intramural<br />
program for fourth-and<br />
fifth-grade students. Kandi was<br />
praised for her boundless energy<br />
and desire to be her very best.<br />
2004<br />
Michael Halley (MSE) resides<br />
at Scottsbluff with his wife,<br />
Teresa and children Traceten (7)<br />
and Devaney (5). He serves as<br />
the principal at Minatare Public<br />
Schools, Minatare.<br />
In Memory Of<br />
Ruth O. (Burkhead) Watkins ’27,<br />
(99) Wheaton, Ill,; Nov. 20.<br />
Mildred (Francis) Ehrhardt ’27,<br />
(97), Plainview; April 18.<br />
Blanche Collins ’31, (96),<br />
<strong>Wayne</strong>; Jan. 2.<br />
Dorothy (Gulliver) Hanks ’31,<br />
(92), Kechi, Kan.; Dec. 18.<br />
L. Pearl (Tedy) Moran ’32, (97),<br />
Denver, Colo.; March 18.<br />
Wilma (Israelson) Noecker ’33<br />
(92), Miami, Fla.; Feb. 10.<br />
Marie E. (Heller) Paul ’33, Santa<br />
Monica, Calif.; March 28.<br />
Hyacinth Harsch ’33, (95), Stanton;<br />
April 5.<br />
Marjorie E. (Westerand) Adams<br />
’35, (91), Lincoln; Jan. 6.<br />
William Morris ’36, (90), Albert<br />
Lea, Minn.; Dec. 30.<br />
Franklin H. Victor ’36, (90),<br />
Phoenix, Ariz.; Jan. 25.<br />
Earl L. Miller ’39, (93), Johnston,<br />
Iowa; Feb. 8.<br />
Donald Edgar Peterson’39, (86),<br />
Kingsville, Texas; Feb. 14.<br />
Ruth F. Peterson ’39, (102), Norfolk;<br />
Jan. 21.<br />
K. Leone (Cook) Hemenway ’39,<br />
(88), Boulder, Colo.; March 28.<br />
Della (Giese) Agler ’40, (87),<br />
<strong>Wayne</strong>; April 5.<br />
Harold Hultman ’40, (87), Bella<br />
Vista, Ark.; April 3.<br />
Marjorie C. (Johnson) Anderson<br />
’40, (96), Eagle Rock, Calif;<br />
March 1.<br />
Keith W. Johnson ’40, (86), Hornick,<br />
Iowa; March 2.<br />
Gail (Hughes) Martindale ’41,<br />
(85), Concord; Jan. 5.<br />
Miriam Ruth (Walker) Johnson<br />
’41, (87), Sioux City, Iowa;<br />
Jan. 17.<br />
June Mussack ’41, (91), Fremont;<br />
Dec. 31, 2004.<br />
Marion (Hecht) Wisch ’44, (82),<br />
Battle Creek; March 26.<br />
Marvin A. Bichel ’47, (86),<br />
Wakefield, Jan. 20.<br />
Robert A. Baker ’48, (82), Spirit<br />
Lake, Iowa; Dec. 31, 2004.<br />
John Ronan ’49, (77), Fremont;<br />
Feb. 20.<br />
Donald F. Carter ’50, (77),<br />
Naples, Fla.; Feb. 9.<br />
Elizabeth “Betty” L. (Kroenke)<br />
Boyle ’50, (75), York; Jan. 12.<br />
Lucille Rotherham ’51, (96),<br />
Norfolk; March 6.<br />
Lorraine (Greenwald) Fitzpatrick<br />
’56, George, Utah; Jan. 30.<br />
Betty (McCullough) King ’57,<br />
(68), Salina, Kan.; Jan. 26.<br />
Jo (Stephens) Fuerhoff ’57, (69),<br />
Knoxville Tenn., April 22.<br />
Sally (Schreiner) Sheppard ’60,<br />
(65), Fremont; March 24.<br />
Doliver “Pete” Nordstrom ’61,<br />
(76), Thornton, Colo.; April 27.<br />
WSC Alumni Notes<br />
Josephine (Decker) Lorenz ’64<br />
(MSE ’69), (88), Norfolk;<br />
March 16.<br />
Irene A. (Kirschmer) Wolverton<br />
’65, (93), Pilger; March 27.<br />
Edna (Anderson) Jeffrey ’66,<br />
(88), O’Neill; Feb. 21.<br />
Allen Curtis Neill ’73, (58),<br />
Ponca; Jan. 31.<br />
Robert L. Klusman ’73, (53),<br />
Kenesaw; Feb. 5.<br />
Elizabeth (Arnberger) Kamphaus<br />
’77 (MSE ’92), (63), Neligh;<br />
Feb. 8.<br />
Myra (Schoenenberger) Hazard<br />
’82, (51), Woodbine, Iowa; Feb.<br />
21.<br />
Larry R. Schutt, MSE ’86, (54),<br />
South Sioux City; Feb. 22.<br />
Joshua E. Kroc ’02, (29),<br />
Coleridge; April 10.<br />
Shawn Gealow ’02, (24), Ithaca;<br />
April 14.<br />
Friends We Will Miss<br />
Esther Echtenkamp, (85),<br />
<strong>Wayne</strong>; Jan. 24. Esther was<br />
employed as a custodian at WSC<br />
from 1974-1980.<br />
Helen Sommerfeld,(78), <strong>Wayne</strong>;<br />
May 4. Helen was employed at<br />
WSC as the athletic equipment<br />
manager/laundry from 1967-<br />
1992.<br />
Sage Gray, (29), Laurel; April<br />
10. Sage was employed at WSC<br />
as an electrician master since<br />
Feb. 18, 2002.
WSC Alumni Notes<br />
Moving Please send your address change to the alumni office!<br />
Alumni Mini-Feature:<br />
Bob and Beth (Hart) Lutt<br />
Bob Lutt entered <strong>Wayne</strong> <strong>State</strong> <strong>College</strong> in 1946 as the first<br />
member of his extended family to attend college. He was active<br />
in the concert band, marching band, director of the jazz<br />
band and numerous choral activities; he taught band at Carroll<br />
part-time. In 1950 he and Beth Hart, who attended <strong>Wayne</strong> <strong>State</strong><br />
<strong>College</strong> and received her Nebraska teaching certificate in 1949,<br />
were married. Beth taught at Leigh for two years. They moved<br />
to Oakland, where Beth taught sixth grade and Bob taught music<br />
in the high school.<br />
Upon graduation in 1950, Bob restarted the band and choral<br />
programs at Oakland High School. These programs achieved<br />
numerous superior awards at Nebraska music festivals. In 1954,<br />
Bob was selected as the Nebraska Band Director of the Year.<br />
After receiving his Masters Degree at the University of Colorado<br />
in 1954, he was offered the position of director of bands<br />
at Berkeley High School in California. During his 20 year tenure<br />
at Berkeley High School his bands participated in the Winter<br />
Olympic Games at Squaw Valley, the World Expo in Seattle, the<br />
Rose Bowl in Pasadena, invited to participate at Disneyland 10<br />
times and had 15 years of straight superior ratings at California<br />
music educators festivals. His marching band appeared annually<br />
at University of California at Berkeley. In 1960 he was awarded<br />
the Young Man of the Year in Berkeley.<br />
In 1957 Bob started Cazadero Music Camp, on City of<br />
Berkeley property approximately 80 miles north of San Francisco<br />
among giant California redwoods. With the assistance<br />
of members of the San Francisco Symphony and local music<br />
educators, the camp grew to over 2,500 summer participants<br />
in 2004. The camp offers band, orchestra, jazz, piano, dance,<br />
a family music camp and an outreach program for 5th graders<br />
for students from throughout the San Francisco Bay area. In<br />
the year 2000, the music performance area was named the Lutt<br />
Family Amphitheater.<br />
Beth served as a natural science docent for many years at<br />
the Oakland, California Museum of California History. She was<br />
also on the staff at a Lutheran church in Berkeley. She finished<br />
a bachelor of arts degree in English Literature at the University<br />
of California at Berkeley.<br />
Beth was very involved with the development of Cazadero<br />
Music Camp and worked on the staff for many years. She is presently<br />
on the board of directors and serving on the finance committee<br />
and active in raising funds for scholarships for campers.<br />
In the 1980’s Beth and her sister developed an estate liquidation<br />
company in the San Francisco Bay area and became active in fine<br />
art and antique appraisals.<br />
In 1975 Bob moved to San Francisco <strong>State</strong> University as<br />
director of the concert band and music education programs. He<br />
designed a program with the San Francisco Foundation to allow<br />
university music students to teach at Cazadero Music Camp each<br />
summer for a salary and college credits; Mr. Lutt retired in 1985<br />
after 50 years of teaching. He was honored by the National Conference<br />
of Music Educators for Outstanding Achievement.<br />
After retiring from teaching he joined his son William to start<br />
an international music production company named World Projects.<br />
Their first project was to take over 60 bands, orchestras and<br />
choirs from North America to the World Expo in Brisbane, Australia<br />
in 1988. Over 4,800 students participated in this event. The<br />
Lutts then created festivals in Hawaii, the Sydney Opera House,<br />
Carnegie Hall, Japan, Singapore, London, San Francisco, New<br />
Orleans, Washington D.C. and designed worldwide performance<br />
tours for numerous high school and university music groups. In<br />
the year 2000, World Projects assembled 2,000 international students<br />
for a marching band for the opening ceremony of the summer<br />
Olympic Games in Sydney, Australia.<br />
Bob has worked with bands throughout Asia and the South<br />
Pacific as adjudicator and clinician. He has developed through<br />
World Projects, exchange programs with high school bands in<br />
China. He assisted in creating the New Zealand Concert Band<br />
Director Association. He is a member of the World Association<br />
of Bands and Ensembles, the Music Educators Association, a<br />
charter member the California Band Directors Association and the<br />
California Music Educators Association. He retired in April <strong>2005</strong><br />
from active music production activities, and now serves as a consultant/advisor<br />
for World Projects and is an active board member<br />
and fund raiser for Cazadero Music Camp.<br />
Beth has accompanied her husband traveling worldwide to<br />
various music festivals and conferences. In 1990 she accepted the<br />
position of chief financial officer for World Projects Corporation<br />
– International Music Productions. She retired in October 2004.<br />
Her favorite activities in retirement are gardening and playing the<br />
piano.<br />
Bob and Beth Hart Lutt will be married 55 years in August<br />
<strong>2005</strong>. This Homecoming will also be Bob’s 55th WSC class<br />
reunion. The Lutt family includes sons William (Australia/Philippine<br />
Islands) and Brian (Singapore), and daughter Rebecca (St.<br />
Paul, Minn.). They have three grandchildren.<br />
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WSC Alumni Notes<br />
Phonathon<br />
Thanks!<br />
Student managers Colin Williams, Lincoln; Larry<br />
Moser, Randolph; Deann Settles, North Bend;<br />
Kristen Blair, Elgin and Deb Lundahl, director<br />
of development and alumni relations would<br />
like to give a big THANK YOU to all of you who<br />
responded to the Phonthon appeal, Pepsi Cola for<br />
providing beverages for the student callers and<br />
area businesses for prizes they donated!<br />
Kateria Jones, Bellevue; Cheryl Swanson, Omaha and Shea<br />
Lundeby, Sioux Falls, SD were three of the students calling for<br />
Phonathon <strong>2005</strong>. Student callers updated address information<br />
for college publications, shared campus happenings and raised<br />
$182,640 in gifts and pledges from alumni, friends and parents.<br />
Send us your<br />
news &<br />
photos, too!<br />
Class___________________<br />
The Phonathon supports scholarships, building projects, faculty<br />
development, alumni publications, athletics and student support<br />
services and affords students the opportunity to connect with WSC<br />
alumni and friends. WSC student callers included Melissa Hemmer,<br />
Humphrey; Amy Cech, Clarkson and Amanda Gasper, Lindsay.<br />
We encourage you to send photos with your alumni notes - wedding, new baby, promotion,<br />
informal gathering with other alumni, etc. Be sure to identify people in the photos.<br />
Digital photos with fewer than five megapixels cannot be accepted.<br />
You can e-mail your news to: delunda1@wsc.edu - remember to update your address!<br />
Or mail to: Alumni Office, <strong>Wayne</strong> <strong>State</strong> <strong>College</strong>, 1111 Main St., <strong>Wayne</strong>, NE 68787<br />
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WSC Alumni Notes<br />
Alumni publications are now online - www.wsc.edu<br />
Northern California Reunion<br />
Alumni and friends met for a late afternoon gathering at the home<br />
of Ron Holt and Bill Huggett in San Francisco Saturday, April<br />
2. Back: Janis (Nelson) ’ 54 and Robert Wicks, Dale Riehart<br />
’77, President Richard and Marilyn Collings, Byron Bonsall ’88,<br />
Yvonne Greer, Mac McManigal ’52, Phyllis Conner, vice president<br />
for development. Middle: Marilyn (Grifi th) Trippy ‘42,<br />
Clara Ann (Peterson) Tennis ’39, Marlene (Carlson) Sterner ‘73.<br />
Front: Bill Huggett ’86, Ron Holt ’89, Deb Lundahl, director of<br />
development and alumni relations.<br />
Southern California<br />
Reunion<br />
Robb ‘75 and Eriko Dalton hosted WSC alumni and friends<br />
in their home at Rancho Santa Fe followed by lunch at The<br />
Bridges at Rancho Santa Fe Country Club on Saturday,<br />
March 12. Row 1: Marilyn Collings, Gwen (Rush) Lindell<br />
’65, Kellie Welsh ’84, Jan and Norm ’58 Ellis, Deb Lundahl,<br />
director of development and alumni relations, Row 2: President<br />
Richard Collings, Mark and Carolyn (Blue) Reinmiller<br />
’73, Diane (Zabel) Schreiber ’67, Tom Lindell, Virgil Smith<br />
’42. Row 3: Robb Dalton ’75, Phyllis Conner, vice president<br />
for development, Dennis Kasischke ’68, Joe Schreiber, (not<br />
pictured: Eriko Dalton).<br />
Upcoming Events:<br />
August 29-<br />
Dakota Dunes Golf Event<br />
September 30 and October 1 -<br />
Homecoming<br />
December 16 -<br />
Commencement<br />
Dakota Dunes Country Club<br />
960 S Dakota Dunes Blvd<br />
Dakota Dunes, SD<br />
1:00 p.m. Shotgun start<br />
regular play<br />
5:30-7:00 p.m. Buffet<br />
$65/person (18 holes of golf,<br />
cart and buffet)<br />
Dakota Dunes Golf<br />
August 29, <strong>2005</strong><br />
For more information:<br />
Alumni Office<br />
Deb Lundahl<br />
402-375-7209<br />
delunda1@wsc.edu<br />
Florida<br />
Reunion<br />
Paula (Rolfes) ‘62 and Larry<br />
Winker hosted alumni and friends<br />
in their home for a delicious evening<br />
meal they prepared February<br />
19 in Boca Raton. Attending were:<br />
President Richard and Marilyn<br />
Collings; Paula Rolfes ’62 and<br />
Larry Winker; Marlys Engstrom<br />
’71 and Jim Dickmeyer; Marsha<br />
’96 and Bob (retired WSC associate<br />
professor) Foote; Lyle ’51<br />
(WSC President Emeritus) and<br />
Ginny Seymour; Cindy Keagle’79<br />
and Scott Swigart ‘79; Phyllis<br />
Conner, vice president for development;<br />
and Deb Lundahl, director<br />
of development and alumni relations.<br />
Paula Winker<br />
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President Richard J. Collings, right, receives a standing ovation after delivering his inaugural address. On the platform with him are,<br />
from left, Dr. Jerry Moskus, president of Metropolitan Community <strong>College</strong>, representing the Nebraska Community <strong>College</strong> Association;<br />
Steve Lewis, chair of the Nebraska <strong>State</strong> <strong>College</strong> System Board of Trustees; Kathy Janke, WSC support staff senate president; Gov. Dave<br />
Heineman; Norman B. Small, II, system student trustee; Stan Carpenter, system chancellor; and Lin Brummels, WSC professional staff<br />
senate president.<br />
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