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Hall of Fame
Seven Inducted into BSU Teachers’ Hall of Fame
Bemidji State University inducted seven educators into its Professional Education Hall of Fame during a special ceremony in April. The Hall of Fame Award honors teachers and administrators who demonstrate excellence in teaching students or managing schools. The award is presented biannually to teacher education graduates of BSU. All award winners are featured in the Hall of Fame display located in the BSU Education Department. The year 2000 honorees are: VIRGIL BOCHLAND is a junior high teacher from Proctor who earned his bachelor’s degree from BSU and master’s from the University of Wisconsin, Stevens Point. Bochland, who has taught for 25 years, has received the Proctor Education Teacher of the Year award and was an Honor Roll Teacher in the Minnesota Teacher of the Year search. He also received the Proctor school district-wide appreciation award and the Minnesota Private Pilots Association Award in 1997.
In Memoriam Fred Schmit (’78) of Bemidji Jennie Delich (’32) of Bovey Randall Barnes (’52) of Cedar Falls, IA George M. Wagner (’57) of Sioux Falls, SD Noble Hall (’65) of Grand Rapids Andalena Rhodes (’67) of Palisade Leslie Beach (’76) of Cohasset Arlene Erickson (’64) of Staples
Teacher Hall of Fame Inductees, front row, (left to right): Adele Munsterman, Debra Kellerman, Vicki Olsen-Rowe. Back row: Mark Fodness, Marcia Liapis, Elwyn Ruud, and Virgil Bochland. MARK FODNESS is a social studies teacher in the Bemidji Middle School who earned a bachelor’s and master’s degrees from BSU. Fodness has taught in the Bemidji Public Schools for 16 years. In 1998, he was Minnesota’s Middle Level Teacher of the Year and also received the Ashland Oil Golden Apple Achievement Award. He has been recognized by the National Youth Leadership Council for the Community Service Project Star Program. DEBRA KELLERMAN is a faculty member in the College of Business at St. Cloud State University who earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees at BSU as well as a doctorate from the University of Iowa. Kellerman has 25 years of teaching and administration experience at the collegiate and secondary levels of education. In 1996, she was awarded the Collegiate Teacher of the Year and Distinguished Service Award from the NCBEA. In 1995, she received the Distinguished Service Award from Minnesota Business
Educators and, in 1994, the Outstanding Post Secondary Business Educator, MBEI, award. MARCIA LIAPIS is a junior high teacher of math, the gifted and special education in Worthington who holds a bachelor’s degree from BSU. Liapis has taught in Worthington for 22 years and was Worthington Education Association Teacher of the Year in 1999. She has received the National History Day Teacher of Merit, as well as two Above and Beyond Awards from her school district. ADELE MUNSTERMAN is a world language teacher in the Fridley schools who earned her bachelor’s degree from BSU and a master’s degree from the University of Minnesota. Munsterman, who has taught in Fridley for 22 years, received the 1996 AATSP Minnesota Outstanding Spanish Teacher award. In 1998, she was named a winner of the Target Teacher Scholarship Award. VICKI OLSEN-ROWE is a former language arts, theater and speech teacher in Bemidji who earned a bachelor’s
degree from BSU. Olsen-Rowe taught in Bemidji for 17 years and currently works in Texas. She received the Ashland Oil Teacher Achievement Award for Excellence in 1992. She has been an editor, publisher, guest speaker, trainer and evaluator. ELWYN RUUD is a third-grade teacher in Roseau who earned her bachelor’s degree from BSU and has done extensive graduate work. Ruud was named Roseau Teacher of the Year in 1992. In 1990, she was the local coordinator for the Artists in Minnesota Schools and Communities Project with COMPAS. This is the fourth group of educators to be presented with the Hall of Fame Award. Past recipients were: 1995, Marge Engebretson, Rex Kingsbury, Bob Michalicek, Dennis Peterson, Elaine Ruud, Roger Schmidt, Mike Wichmann and Yvonne Wilson; 1996, Michael Hanlon, Cheryl Hoversten, Robert Hurst, James Jenner, John McClellan, Marcy Mickelson, Mary Snorek, Lloyd Styrwoll and David Thompson; 1998, Pat Hughes, Delphine Jacobsen, Kathy L. Pearson, Laura Jo Pieper, Jim Wheeler and Neil Witikko.
Calling All Alumni Beginning in June, representatives of Bernard C. Harris Publishing Company Inc., will start telephoning alumni for the verification phase of the Bemidji State University Alumni Directory project. Much of the information to be verified will be published in the directory, including name, academic data, home address and phone number. Individual listings will be organized alphabetically by name and also by class year and geographical location in separate sections of the directory. Photos and information about the university will also be included. Alumni may order a directory when contacted by a Harris representative. Only pre-publication orders placed at that time will be guaranteed delivery.
The 50 year reunion of the class of 1950 was held in conjunction with BSU’s Commencement in mid-May. Pictured are the 1950 participants who served as the honor guard during the event, front row (left to right): Ray Green, Bernard Welinski, Don Barron, Marion Christianson, Darrell Stave, Caroline Czarnecki, Donna Gregoire. Back row: Bruce Atwater, Don Schmeckpepper, John Liapis, Daniel Moore, John Schultz, Ken Christianson, Charles Patterson. Participants not pictured: M. Fern Birnstihl, Don Peterson.
Where We Are ... What We’re Doing announce the Feb.16 birth of a daughter ... Kristin Weidlein (’92) teaches English as a second language at Rancho High School in North Las Vegas, NV, and is working on a master’s in education administration at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas ... Susie Brovold (’94) teaches 7-12 special education at Bagley. She had previously taught kindergarten in Mora and also second and third grade in the BELL program ... Cindy (Zuspann) Quist (’93) of Andover has been teaching sixth grade in Coon Rapids for the past four and a half years and plans to complete her master’s degree this summer. She’s been married for six years and has a 10month-old daughter ... Ann (Murphy) Gorden (’98) of Lake Crystal married Eric Gorden (’99) and now works as regional coordinator for ITV in southern Minnesota at South Central Technical College ... Dawn Bernecker (’97) of Shell Lake, WI, recently became the assistant hatchery foreman at the Gov.Thompson Hatchery, Spooner, WI, which raises walleye, muskies and northern pike for the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources ... Kathy Smeby (’96) of St. Paul plans to graduate this summer with a doctorate of pharmacy from the University of Minnesota and will work at Methodist Hospital at St. Louis Park. She is planning a July wedding with Greg Broder, a lieutenant in the U.S. Air Force ... Jennifer Sanford (’94) is director of the Bemidji United Way ... Karl Myers (’99) teaches first grade at Floodwood ... Rick Holbeck (’93) works in the music department in Biwabik schools where he is in charge of the high school choir, the seventh- and eighthgrade choir and seventh grade music classes ... Karl Myers photo by Emily Chapinski, Floodwood Forum
(Continued from page 5) 1990s nursery on Highway 29 north of Nisswa and have three grown adopted children. The nomination letter states that Amy (McLaughlin) Birch (’90) is the art director at the Teton Valley News in Driggs, ID, where she also resides. Jerry and Ruth have volunteered their time and energy since 1993 to establish the Nisswa Caboose Society, which She won first place in last year’s Idaho Newspaper Association competition in the page design category ... is now the Nisswa Historical Society. They were instrumental in getting the property for the depot complex Bradley Nepsund (’96) of Buffalo is in his third year of from the Department of Natural Resources and continue to teaching physical education and health in Rockford ... Angie Jorgensen (’97) of St. Cloud teaches English at volunteer their time to maintain and landscape the depot and caboose area, which serves as a community focal point Cathedral High School in St. Cloud. She also serves as and attraction for visitors ... Todd Sorensen (’86) recently assistant coach of the volleyball and speech teams ... Karen Wicklund (’94) of Battle Lake has been joined the staff at Deerwood Bank’s Brainerd office. He has 13 years of lending and finance experience and will be employed as a child support officer for the Otter Tail County Social Services since 1994 ... Robin Reed (’95) involved in consumer lending and business development ... Peri Jo (Kringen) McKay (’86) of Shoreview plans to recently bought a house in Minneapolis and is working for Wells Fargo in its retirement plan services department return to teaching physical education. She married her high-school sweetheart, Mike McKay, on Feb. 5 and now ... Ginger Stoehr-Fealy (’97) of Alexandria is a school has two stepsons, Chad, 13, and Eric, 9, in addition to her social worker at Minnewaska Area High School and is 10-year-old daughter, Bailey ... Melody Tenhoff (’83) has currently working on completing her master’s of science been principal at Luverne Elementary School since 1997. in education degree at Southwest State University ... Prior to that she’d been the elementary and middle school Brett John Short (’93) and Susan Rozner of Hackensack principal at Fillmore Central, Rushford, and a librarian in the Cloquet School District. She married Steven Leite in December ... Bob Fitzgerald (’85) has accepted a job with Kraus Anderson Construction - Northern Division in the marketing department and resigned from his position as Cass Lake city administrator. He’d been with the city for five and a half years. Bradley Nepsund Angie Jorgensen Karl Myers
Lana Schultz (’91) bought a house in Bemidji in 1998 and has worked at the Arch Deacon Gilfillan Center since 1991 ... Ed Bahr (’92) of Jackson, AL, works as a team leader at the Boise Cascade Converting Facility in Jackson and has a five-year-old son ... Amy Gall (’98) of St. Cloud is a kindergarten and preschool teacher in the Sartell-St. Joseph School District ... Lezlie Grubich (’93) of Bemidji is employed as financial manager of the Bemidji Senior Center and Paul Bunyan Transit ... Annie (Johnson) McCann (’90) of Westminster, CO, was married in June of 1999 and is expecting her first child in October ... David Lampi (’93) of Billings, MT, works for Sysco Foodservices of Montana and recently accepted the new position of healthcare/government marketing specialist ... Rick Berndt (’91) of Bemidji owns the Pet Zone in Bemidji and, along with his wife, Patti, has three children ... Blake Fisher (’96) of Coon Rapids bought a home in January, and he and his wife are expecting their first child in March. He’s employed at Professional Technologies as a model maker ... Guy Hagen (’98) of Mountain Iron has been promoted to senior graphic designer with JPG Communications Inc. of Virginia. He’s been with the company for one and a half years, and in his new position he will work closely with regional and national clients to create a variety of custom design projects, including publications and collateral material ... Vicki Palmer (’95) of Pequot Lakes has been teaching high school English there for four years. She is also a certified Pathwise assessor and cognitive coach ... Ian Mackenzie (’99) and his wife live in Etobicoke, Ontario, Canada, and were expecting their first child this spring ... Lori Kay Mattison (’99) lives in Birmingham, AL ... Karen
Kraemer (’95) of Willmar received the Outstanding Biology Teacher Award for Minnesota from the National Association of Biology Teachers at the organization’s convention this year ... Paul Tarutis (’92) of Benedict works as a teacher coordinator for District 118 in Remer ... Delles Solie (’91) of Owatonna teaches pre-calculus at Owatonna High School. He and his wife, Diane, an elementary school teacher, have two sons ... Paige Lindberg (’96) of Worthington teaches high school German and plans to take her students on a trip to Germany ... Bobbie (Wilkerling) Greiner (’90) and her husband moved to Bemidji in 1997. She currently works as lifestyle editor and staff writer at The Pioneer newspaper, Bemidji ... Melissa Reichstadt (’95) of Oshkosh, WI, has been working as a residence hall director at the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh for the past three years. She also belongs to a community outdoors club and volunteers as a big sister through Big Brothers-Big Sisters ... Julie Hendrickson (’91) of Bemidji graduated from the University of Minnesota in May 1999 with a master’s of science in software engineering. She’s worked with SAGA Software for nine years, was recently promoted to senior consultant and plans to move to Bemidji this summer ... Melissa (Baker) Warren (’91) of Bloomington, IL, and her husband, Michael, are expecting their second child in November. Their Julie Hendrickson