(ChE07) and Vice President Nicolle Paulson (CEE, Buffalo, Minn.) for organizing the event.
Haskell, Kansas
Seniors and others with the Class of 2007-08 plaque
no time left in the first half, the Hardrockers lost 17-10 to Minot State. The School of Mines and the Hardrock Club also honored the 2007 Hall of Fame inductees to culminate this year’s M-Day activities at a banquet in the Christensen Hall of Fame. Alumni Kris Griffith (EE86), Dave Jackson (ME70), Roger Opp (M.S. Math65), Dan Ptak (EE86), Gary Trohkimoinen (EE73), and Tammy (Peterson) Williams (CE82) were each honored individually, along with the 1972-1973 men’s basketball team coached by Mike Riley. Please visit <http://www.sdsmt.edu/athletics/halloffame.html> to read more about the 2007 inductees. September’s and M-Week’s end included students, staff, and alumni playing in the fun nine-hole, sixth annual Student Alumni Connection (SAC) golf tourney and picnic on Sunday. Thirty attendees joined the fun at the Executive Golf Course. The team Jade Herman (IS, Rapid City), Sam Hermanson (IE, Rapid City), Emilia Juhl (MetE, Luverne, Minn.), and Kyle Sparger (GeolE, Tracy, Calif.) won the ninehole tourney with a team score of five under par. Special thanks go to SAC President Liz Roberts
Former gridiron Hardrockers Justin Tomac (IE93), Dennis Clary (ME01), Jeff Hoffman (ME84), and Vic DeJong (ME64) at the Haskell game
Denver, Colorado There were at least four School of Mines alumni at the joint Colorado Association of Stormwater and Floodplain Managers/Association of State Floodplain Managers Arid Regions Conference in Breckenridge last September. Thanks go to Bill DeGroot (CE69)
Janet (Skulborstad) Herman (CE84), Bill DeGroot (CE69), and Jamie (Skulborstad) Overgaard (CE84)
The Hardrock Spring 2008
Area Meetings
Emilia Juhl (MetE, Luvurne, Minn.), Sam Hermanson (IE, Rapid City), Kyle Sparger (GeolE, Tracy, Calif.), and Jade Herman (IS, Rapid City)
Several former Hardrocker football players relived memories of their playing days by attending the School of Mines football game against Haskell University in Lawrence, Kansas on September 8, 2007. Mark Ree (MinE77) and a few others were also at the game. Larry Simonson (EE69) also reported that “none of the former Rockers suffered any injuries during the game nor did they have any after-game aches.”
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