Honors
CEREMONY CLASS OF 2020 COMMEMORATIVE MAGAZINE SEPTEMBER 10 & 11, 2021
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CLASS of 2020 MIKE CARTNEY Watertown, SD
GLENNA FOUBERG
(1942—2021)
BRUCE LONG FOX Rapid City, SD
JACK MARSH Sioux Falls, SD
Aberdeen, SD
DELTA DAVID GIER
WALTER PANZIRER
Sioux Falls, SD
Pierre, SD
BERNIE HUNHOFF
SEN. LARRY PRESSLER
Yankton, SD
Washington, D.C.
KITTY KINSMAN
MAMIE PYLE
Rapid City, SD
(1866—1949) Huron, SD
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TABLE of CONTENTS ABOUT THE HONORS CEREMONY 2020 Inductees .............................................................................2 Honors Ceremony Program .........................................................3 Hall of Fame Nominating Process ..............................................6 Inductee Anniversaries ............................................................. 48 Honors Ceremony Supporters ................................................. 56 CLASS OF 2020 BIOGRAPHIES Mike Cartney .................................................................................8 Glenna Fouberg .......................................................................... 14 Delta David Gier ........................................................................ 18 Bernie Hunhoff .......................................................................... 22 Kitty Kinsman ............................................................................. 26 Bruce Long Fox .......................................................................... 30 Jack Marsh .................................................................................. 34 Walter Panzirer .......................................................................... 38 Sen. Larry Pressler ..................................................................... 42 Mamie Pyle ................................................................................. 46 ABOUT THE HALL OF FAME Board of Directors ........................................................................5 Lifetime Donors ..........................................................................11 Programming .............................................................................. 12 Hall of Fame History ................................................................. 20 FAQ .............................................................................................. 24 Legends & Learning ................................................................... 25 2018 & 2019 Donors ................................................................ 28 Native American Heritage ........................................................ 32 Women of Influence .................................................................. 40 Innovators in Agriculture .......................................................... 43 Inductee Directory .................................................................... 49 In Memoriam .............................................................................. 54 Endowment Campaign Vision 2020 ........................................ 59 Donor Giving & Stewardship .................................................... 58
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WHO MAY NOMINATE AN INDIVIDUAL? Anyone may nominate an individual, living or deceased, to be considered for induction into the South Dakota Hall of Fame. Self-nomination is not permitted, and those currently serving on the South Dakota Hall of Fame Board of Directors or its staff are not permitted to nominate individuals.
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Only electronic submission of nominations will be accepted. Begin at our website, sdhalloffame.org sdexcellence.org, and click on the Nominations button.
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WHO MAY BE NOMINATED? Nominees must have resided in South Dakota during their lifetime. The nominee must exemplify the meaning of excellence, demonstrating qualifications, attributes, and achievements in the selected category that are exemplary and distinguished.
WHAT FIELDS ARE ELIGIBLE? To showcase South Dakota’s finest, we accept nominations in six broad categories to cover any area of accomplishment. The following are general descriptions of each category: AGRICULTURE includes all aspects of agriculture. ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT encompasses actors and actresses, film, photography, artists, musicians, writers, sculptors, communications including radio and television. GENERAL includes fields such as education, military, politics, and religion. HISTORICAL includes those who contribute to the fabric and culture of South Dakota. PROFESSIONAL includes professionals such as business leaders, scientists, inventors, technology experts, medical professionals and pioneers, legal experts, researchers, philanthropists, and others. SPORTS includes athletes, coaches, and others.
NOMINATION NOMINATION DEADLINE DEADLINE IS IS FEB. FEB. 11 AT AT MIDNIGHT MIDNIGHT MST MST PLEASECONTACT CONTACTUS USWELL WELLININADVANCE ADVANCE FOR PLEASE FOR ASSISTANCEWITH WITHANY ANYQUESTIONS QUESTIONS. ASSISTANCE
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SUBMIT ONLINE
Carefully review the required information, and complete the application fully to present the best case for the candidate’s nomination. Please review the application carefully, as incomplete applications cannot be reviewed.
Online applications must be submitted by midnight MST on February 1. Please leave adequate time as late applications cannot be reviewed.
SELECTION The South Dakota Hall of Fame board members will review all timely and complete nominations. Each year, up to ten individuals whose nominating application best represents the achievement of excellence will be selected. The selection criteria for excellence is based on the information provided within the nomination for an individual’s statewide contributions, outstanding leadership, achievement in their chosen category, their skill development, and growth.
NOTIFICATION Individuals selected for induction will be notified in writing. Honorees will also be announced in public press releases and on the Hall’s website.
RECOGNITION Inductees receive recognition at the annual Honors Ceremony held each September, on the Hall’s website and in various publications.
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2020 CHAMPIONS FOR
Excellence INDUCTEE BIOGRAPHIES The South Dakota Hall of Fame recognizes these Dream Chasers as examples of excellence. They reflect the people of South Dakota who build our future. We proudly honor their accomplishments, and shine a light on excellence throughout the State of South Dakota.
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MIKE CARTNEY
CHAMPION OF THE TECHNICAL EDUCATION SYSTEM OF SOUTH DAKOTA
1959 • CATEGORY EDUCATION
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NOMINATED BY LuANN STRAIT
After retiring a U.S. Air Force Colonel, Mike Cartney returned home and helped transform the state’s technical college system.
character with faith, honesty, responsibility, hard work, mutual respect and putting others first.
Today, with Mike’s influence, not only does Lake Area Tech consistently garner top-in-thenation honors for student graduation, retention, and placement rates; South Dakota’s technical education system is also recognized as the top system in the country.
Icons of secondary education like Marv Sherrill, Bill Zubke, and Ernie Edwards honed Mike’s competencies and character. As a four-year varsity wrestler and top academic student, Mike had several options following graduation from Watertown High School. Fellow 2020 SD Hall of Fame Inductee Larry Pressler started Mike’s career by appointing him to the United States Air Force Academy.
When Mike was born his father actually took a day off from farming just north of Presho to escort his mother to Pierre. The “middle child” of six, Mike’s early years were spent in agricultural communities outside Presho, Pukwana, Draper, Murdo, and Pierre before his family moved to Rapid City in 1966 and to Watertown in 1970. Mike remembers trips through “South Dakota gumbo” to help with harvest, calving, or to celebrate holidays with relatives. This rural upbringing formed Mike’s 8 • 2020 HONORS CEREMONY
The Academy launched his 30-year career. Mike was the first person to earn varsity letters at two military academies in Rugby and the first Watertown alumnus to graduate from the Academy. Mike returned as the Academy’s intercollegiate Men’s Rugby head coach, leading them to a national runner-up finish.
Coined by a US President and thanked by a Prince of Saudi Arabia for his service, Colonel Cartney is highly-decorated for his duty during six wars and many other conflicts. Mike also led teams with the Drug Enforcement Agency, US Marshal Service, and FBI. A National Fellow to Harvard University, Mike’s work became reference materials for Presidential policy. While standing battle-staff following 9/11, Mike was hand-picked to also developed Department of Defense’s futuristic 2020 operational concepts in communications, as well as cyberspace. Mike’s longing to return home prevailed, and they moved to Watertown in 2007. Mike hit the ground running at Lake Area Technical Institute as Vice-President before assuming the Presidency in 2014.
His leadership and vision provided the perfect segue for an impact of epic proportions in South Dakota and nationally. Mike modestly led the college to a litany of success, most notably the Aspen Prize for Community
College Excellence and hosting President Barak Obama as their 2015 commencement speaker. His work in student success, industry partnership, community-partnering, and advocating the value of community colleges has been featured in White House summits, Forbes, New York Times and TIME magazine, to name a few. US Senator John Thune invited President Cartney to testify before the US Senate Commerce Committee on addressing the skilled workforce gap. A highly respected legislative and public spokesman for technical education, Mike’s advocacy was foundational to the landmark passage of Constitutional Amendment R, establishing technical education as the third form of education in South Dakota. He was instrumental in legislation to create the first South Dakota Board of Technical Education, align instructors’ salaries with industry, and rename ‘technical institutes’ to ‘technical colleges’. Modelling lifelong values of mutual respect, putting people first, and empowering individual to “do the right thing,” Mike indemnified student success at Lake Area Tech by fostering a culture of caring and redefining student success. Mike’s
ditties of: “College is a pathway, not a destination”; “success is placement not just graduation”; and “Although student-focused, we are industry and community facing” became national mantras. Mike is a featured national speaker for conferences like the Western Governor’s Associations and US News & World Report, and was one of only seven presidents to serve on a national committee to define college student success. Governor Daugaard nominated Mike to President Trump’s American Workforce Policy Advisory Board. Mike and his late wife, Harriett, raised two great children, Trisha and Byron, and have five grandchildren, Natalie, Andrew, Alex, Alyssa, and Austin. Mike grew up enjoying the outdoors and is an avid pheasant hunter. He is involved in community service, energizes multiple community boards, and founded Watertown’s Sea of Goodwill and Veteran/First Responder Appreciation Day.
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Excellence CHAMPIONING
A CULTURE OF
Inductees of the South Dakota Hall of Fame hale from all over the state, and are as unique as the geography of South Dakota. They come from different backgrounds, differ in gender, race, political orientation, vocation and avocation. But they share one strong quality in common, and that is their pursuit of achievements and excellence. Our class of 2020 was unable to have an in-person Honor’s Ceremony last year, due to the Covid-19 Pandemic, but the South Dakota Hall of Fame Inducted them in a Virtual Medallion Celebration, which was a huge success. We were able to share these Inductees’ stories with a wider online audience than ever before and we are thrilled to celebrate the Class of 2020 in person this year, during this Honors Ceremony in September. We hope these stories serve as inspiration and motivation, especially to the younger generation of dream chasers here in South Dakota. The South Dakota Hall of Fame is supported solely by the generosity of our supporters who understand that together, we will have a profound impact on our state by championing a culture of excellence.
MICHELLE LAVALLEE
GRETA CHAPMAN
BOARD CHAIR (2019-20) SIOUX FALLS, SD
SD HALL OF FAME CEO RAPID CITY, SD
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2020 LIFETIME DONORS $300,000 AND ABOVE
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Committed, consistent supporters make all the difference in planning and reaching big goals. We are grateful for the help of these donors as we further our mission to champion a culture of excellence in South Dakota.
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Harold Lucas Carl McNair Milton Mutch Dick & Darlene Muth Joy Nelson Duane Sander Louis & Carol Sebert Sanford Health Systems Lyle Schroeder Jim Scull Carl & Marietta Soukup Matt & Helen Sutton Brig. Gen. Myrna Williamson (USA Ret.) Anson & Ada May Yeager If you find a discrepancy in this donor list please accept our apologies and contact us at sdhallinfo@gmail.com. If there is a discrepancy we are able to update the digital copy which can also be printed by individuals as needed.
CONGRATULATIONS
Bruce Long Fox ’81, ‘83
TO THE 2020 SOUTH DAKOTA HALL OF FAME INDUCTEES The University of South Dakota applauds Bruce Long Fox, Jack Marsh and Larry Pressler for their inductions into the South Dakota Hall of Fame and recognizes the growing list of alumni and friends who have been inducted into this elite institution.
Jack Marsh
Jim Abbott ‘70, ‘74 Andrew Bogue ‘47 Ruth Brennan ’54 Dick Brown ‘66 Dodie Brown Fred Cozad ‘49 Dr. William Donahoe
Frank Farrar ‘51, ‘53 Linda Hasselstrom ‘65 Marilyn Hoyt Holm ‘63 Tim Johnson ‘69, ’75 Dr. Warren Jones ‘43 Dr. John Milton ‘25 Mary Lynn Myers ‘67, ‘09
Dr. Rod Parry ‘67 Robert Penn ‘74 Dr. Vance Thompson ‘82, ‘86 Dr. Loren Tschetter ‘66 Dr. Karl Wegner
Larry Pressler ‘64
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HALL of FAME PROGRAMMING The Hall of Fame’s unique programs serve as inspiration for helping young people understand their potential while providing motivation to chase their dreams. Through the sharing of inductee stories and recognition of acts of excellence, people from all corners of the state are enabled to share in the heritage that has formed the culture of excellence right here in South Dakota.
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ABOUT OUR PROGRAMMING
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ACTS OF EXCELLENCE Recognizing everyday excellence throughout South Dakota. Submit an act by a deserving individual, group, or organization today!
HONORS CEREMONY Each year, up to ten outstanding South Dakotans are inducted into the Hall of Fame for their achievements that inspire our youth, lead the generations and build our future.
LEGACY OF ACHIEVEMENT A one-of-a-kind collection of South Dakota Champions. Visit our website to get to know the over 700 Inductees through video, audio, interactive games, and photos.
LEGENDS AND LEARNING Our educational program tells the inspiring stories of South Dakota’s Champions for Excellence while helping teachers fulfill curriculum requirements in core subjects with a comprehensive digital collection.
VISITOR & EDUCATION CENTER Our Visitor & Education Center in Chamberlain, South Dakota is an inspiration of interactive and hands-on exhibits highlighting the Champions and our state’s excellence. Open year round.
PROGRAMMING THAT WORKS!
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ACROSS SOUTH DAKOTA SD COUNTIES
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CLASSROOM USES INDUCTEE STORIES
38,198 9,923 2018 REACH CLASSROOM USES
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2018 NETWORK 2019 REACHUSERS
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STATEWIDE STATEWIDE PROGRAMMING PROGRAMMING
LEGENDS LEGACY OF ACHIEVEMENTS & LEARNING
SOCIAL & LEGENDS LEARNING MEDIA
CHAMPIONS SOCIAL MEDIA FOR EXCELLENCE
LEGACY OF CHAMPIONS FOR EXCELLENCE ACHIEVEMENTS
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GLENNA FOUBERG
INNOVATIVE EDUCATOR DEDICATED TO HELPING STUDENTS ON THE MARGINS
1942 - 2021 • CATEGORY EDUCATION
• HOMETOWN ABERDEEN, SD •
NOMINATED BY ERIN FOUBERG
Glenna (Schauer) Fouberg was an innovative educator with a firm commitment to helping students on the margins of the state’s education system. Glenna received a Bachelor’s degree in secondary education from Northern State University in 1963 and a Master’s degree in counseling from South Dakota State University in 1968. Over 38 years, Glenna taught at Eielson AFBAlaska and in Sisseton, Bristol, Webster and Aberdeen, South Dakota; the last 13 years as the director of the Alternative Learning Center in Aberdeen.
As a teacher, she saw that barriers to students earning their diplomas existed both inside and outside the classroom. In Aberdeen, she created a team of educators who pushed the limits to care for students. Fouberg and her staff helped kids find clothing, paced the school day to accommodate students’ work and family commitments, and provided expectations and discipline. The ALC had an 86 percent graduation rate during Fouberg’s tenure. Glenna also mentored other school districts on creating alternative education programs.
Changing lives through her work in alternative education at the district and statewide levels was Glenna Fouberg’s top achievement. She molded Aberdeen’s Alternative Learning Center (ALC) where she changed the trajectories of hundreds of lives. Glenna extended the ALC to middle school, the Juvenile Detention Center, and the New Beginnings Center (a home for at-risk youth).
Glenna dedicated her career to improving the quality of education in South Dakota. In 1994, Glenna was honored as the South Dakota Teacher of the Year. In 1998 she was appointed to the State Board of Education where she served 19 years (4 as president) under 3 governors and 5 Secretaries of Education. Glenna helped start the annual Indian Education Summit, which continues
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today. She helped lead the South Dakota Indian Education Advisory Board for 10 years. She co-founded the South Dakota Teacher Summit. Teach for America, which places teachers primarily on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, was brought to South Dakota with her leadership. As an educator for 38 years, Glenna championed students who otherwise might have failed.
Glenna was relentless in her support for marginalized students in the state’s education system, “We had to push to create new programs to help all students,” she said. Glenna was also dedicated to community service and was a passionate and persuasive fundraiser. She fundraised millions of dollars for organizations including the Aberdeen Area YMCA, Northern State University, and the United Way. She served on statewide boards, including the Ronald McDonald House and Fairy Godmothers. She created the charity lunch group in Aberdeen, served as president of the NSU Foundation, co-chair of the United Way Rails Club, and moderator and assistant organist of Plymouth Congregational Church. She served on dozens of local boards and served on the boards of the Aberdeen University-Civic Symphony, YMCA, and Aberdeen Area Community Foundation. She and her husband, Rod, co-chaired the capital campaign to build the YMCA. Glenna and her husband had two sons, Robert and Dan, two daughters-in-law, Erin and Nancy, and four grandchildren, Margaret, Henry, Abigail, and Andrew.
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ACTS of EXCELLENCE
Acts of Excellence honors the many South Dakotans who achieve excellence in everyday acts that make the state so extraordinary. Read more about each Act of Excellence on SDHALLOFFAME.ORG SDEXCELLENCE.ORG .
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SIOUX FALLS
RAPID CITY
FAULKTON MURAL
FACES OF ENDANGERED
RAPID CITY REGIONAL AIRPORT
The community of Faulkton invited an Australian artist, Guido van Helten, to use a local grain elevator as a giant DEUBROOK canvas to showcase artwork visible for miles around. One town official says IMPORTANCE IN RECYCLING “the skyfourth-grade is the limit for the tourism After teacher Dawn boost” the massive mural could provide.
Leuning participated in the South Dakota Innovation Lab, she returned to her classroom inspired, and designed a program to highlight the importance of reducing, re-using and recycling.
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12-year-old Bria Neff is using her talent as an artist and passion for the welfare of animals to raise awareness CITY of the plight RAPID of endangered species on the planet. She has raised more than COMMUNITY “REPAIR MEN” $13,000 through is her organization SHIFT GARAGE a volunteer based Faces of the Endangered.
mechanic shop located in Rapid City. and the hard work of the community, These volunteers lend their auto skills the decade-long project to restore to repair vehicles for those in need. the 130-year-old Goss Opera House SHIFT fixes around 150 cars each year. to its rightful place a community Individuals or organizations are welcome to submit why an act as champions a culture of excellence in South Dakota. Submissions are accepted round. centerpiece is nearingyear completion. Contact the Hall at sdhallinfo@gmail.com or 605.234.4216 for assistance.
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Rapid City Regional Airport is going green in an environmentally conscious way. Working with the SD Mines, the WATERTOWN airport is creating a rooftop that is filled with small plants. The green roof helps HISTORIC PRESERVATION saveThrough water, reduce storm run-off, and the generosity of donors reduce heating and cooling costs.
ACTS OF EXCELLENCE ARE SPONSORED BY
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BARISTA, GIVES BACK Alexandra “Peedee’’ Doyle created a mobile coffee shop that brings freshbrewed java to customers’ front doors. She makes sure to use local products, and she emphasizes giving back to her community by donating to local charities on a regular basis.
ENCOURAGES ASPIRING ARTISTS Terry Redlin’s works of art are well known and admired throughout the country, and his story and legacy are captured in the Art Center. In addition, programs expose young people to the world of creativity, and encourage them to explore their own artistic passion.
FUNDS CHILDREN CENTER With a generous gift from long-time Sturgis residents the late Albert and Laverne Elliot, the community library recently dedicated a new Children’s Learning Center and Community Room.
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DELTA DAVID GIER
INDIVIDUAL SEEKING TO GROW, CONNECT, AND IMPACT THROUGH MUSIC
1960 • CATEGORY ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT
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NOMINATED BY JENNIFER TEISINGER
What does it mean to be an artistic director, a cultural leader, in the 21st Century? At a time when entertainment is ubiquitous, it can be difficult to know how seriously to take the “arts.” Arguably, artists and leaders of arts organizations have more influence over the populace than policy makers in houses of government. Indeed, many of the decisions made on a political level are guided by popular opinion which has been shaped, often almost imperceptibly and over long periods of time, by the music we listen to, the books we read, the movies we watch. How to channel that potential in ways which positively influence our society, is Delta David Gier’s challenge and calling. Delta David Gier came to the South Dakota Symphony Orchestra in 2004. He brought with him a conviction that an orchestra, rather than being simply an arts institution, should be an agent for positive
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change, for community-building. Without preconceptions as to how this would translate to South Dakota, he has over many years as Music Director of the SDSO guided its transformation into an ensemble which serves the people of this state uniquely; from reservations to refugee communities, he has brought people together through the sharing of something which we all love: music. He grew up in an academic home, his father a biochemist. Music was always present, as both of his parents were amateur musicians; his father played several instruments (badly, alas) and his mother sang (also not particularly well ...). A love for music and art was instilled in Delta David through classes and lessons from an early age. While he originally imagined following the well-trod scientific path (his father was one of four brothers with PhDs in the sciences), it was clear where his sensibilities lay.
Musical training afforded him many opportunities; in addition to completing a Master’s degree at the University of Michigan School of Music, he spent summers participating in the festivals of Tanglewood, Aspen, and Interlochen. A Fulbright scholarship allowed him to begin a professional conducting career in Europe. After an apprenticeship at the Philadelphia Orchestra, he served for many years as an assistant conductor at the New York Philharmonic, where he conducted several seasons of the New York Philharmonic’s famous Young People’s Concerts. Guest conducting engagements have taken him to many of the major orchestras in the US as well as in many parts of the world, such as China, Singapore, Thailand, Mexico, Brazil, Costa Rica, Italy, Norway, Hungary, Poland, Romania, and other European countries. While celebrating with sheer joy a symphony orchestra’s core purpose of playing the greatest music accumulated over centuries of Western culture, Gier has been able to infuse both the mission and the programming of the SDSO with an ethos of service. The Lakota Music Project was developed carefully over the course of several years to address racial divisions. After many successful tours of that program, the project has been expanded
into Bridging Cultures, which seeks to facilitate understanding among all South Dakotans through appreciation of who we are and who we are becoming.
professionally, Gier is often quite busy speaking, writing, and working with various global ministries such as Crescendo International and the European Leadership Forum.
Permeated with music composed during our time, Gier’s programming honors tradition with an eye towards the future. Beginning with his first season at the SDSO, he instituted a series of concerts based on the Pulitzer Prize, welcoming many leading American composers to residencies with our orchestra—an idea the Wall Street Journal praises as “an unprecedented programming innovation.” Investing in the future of the art form has always been one of Gier’s priorities, and the SDSO has benefited greatly both in the enrichment of its repertoire and its reputation as a leading regional orchestra. Gier has chaired the jury of the Pulitzer Prize for music, as well as serving on the boards of the American Composers Forum and Soli Deo Gloria, a Chicagobased foundation dedicated to the commissioning of new works of sacred music.
Gier’s approach to programming and service has brought significant positive attention to the State of South Dakota. Publications such as the Washington Post and the New Yorker have also noted the innovation and impact of the SDSO.
The integration of faith with music has been a lifelong passion and pursuit, which has led naturally to his dedication to promoting intercultural/intergenerational communication through classical music. When not conducting
A 2019 tour of the Lakota Music Project to Washington, DC brought accolades for performances at the Smithsonian Museum of the American Indian and the National Cathedral. When asked by the SDSO search committee why he was interested in the position of music director, Gier responded, “I am looking for someplace to build something significant.” South Dakota has been that place because of the spirit of the people who live here. It is a good marriage! 2020 HONORS CEREMONY • 19
understand the present to prepare for the future.”
The Cowboy and Western Heritage Hall of Fame was established and the first Western Weekend celebration was held.
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The South Dakota Hall of Fame started in 1974 to recognize and honor people in South Dakota for their histories in building our heritage. Our mission is to Build a Culture of Excellence in South Dakota, and we believe this mission will provide young people with the tools to chase their dreams.
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BERNIE HUNHOFF From your friends at
Champion of Women’s Suffrage from Dream Design, Rapid City
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BERNIE HUNHOFF
SHOWCASING THE VIBRANCY OF SOUTH DAKOTA ONE STORY AT A TIME
1951 • CATEGORY ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT
• HOMETOWN YANKTON, SD •
NOMINATED BY CARMEN SCHRAMM
Ben Hunhoff grew ill from cancer and died in 1927, leaving his wife Mary with nine young children on their Yankton farm. Those years shaped the Hunhoff family for generations. The Great Depression was beginning, and times were tough. Banks and doctors tried to confiscate the farm due to Ben’s medical expenses. Mary hid her work horses at the neighbors, so they weren’t taken by creditors. Friends urged her to send a few kids to various relatives, but she was determined to keep everyone together. Gay and Bernie, ages 12 and 11, were the oldest; they worked the land and helped raise their siblings. Bernie left school in the 8th grade and started farming. He eventually married a nurse and aspiring poet, Margaret Modde, and together their raised seven boys on that same farm. Their legacy of determination, good works and family have since spread far beyond.
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Their son Mark became a farm implement dealer and leader in the hospital, church, and college. Dave served 36 years as county sheriff. Dan is an entrepreneur and physical therapist. Randal became a newspaperman and Brian is a journalist and register of deeds. Patrick has developmental disabilities and serves as example of fortitude. A middle son, Bernie Jr. — the 2020 inductee to the Hall of Fame — says it would be impossible to tell his story without going back to 1927 and the death of the grandfather he and his brothers never knew. Their grandmother’s resilience and the family’s love for the land and South Dakota have impacted their lives and careers. Bernie Hunhoff Jr. married Myrna Mulloy in 1974, the year he graduated from Mount Marty College. He worked for U.S. Rep. Frank Denholm and for newspapers in Madison
and Watertown. He assisted Dr. Karl Wegner in promoting a fouryear medical school at USD. In 1978, he and Myrna started a weekly newspaper, The Observer, aided by Brian. Bernie and Myrna started South Dakota Magazine in 1985, hoping to capture the essence of South Dakota. Though they struggled for subscribers and advertisers in the early years, they recognized that stories were important to readers. “We discovered that stories of hardships like our family and so many families endured — plus true tales of adventure, humor, nature, politics and business — gave people a better sense of place,” Hunhoff said. One reader, who had moved to another state, wrote to say that the Hunhoffs should help her find a job because she was homesick from reading the stories and moving home to Menno. She wasn’t alone. Newcomers to the state sent the magazine to relatives — many of whom had never lived in South Dakota — and soon they wanted to visit. Some hoped to move here. Parents urged their children to read the magazine so that they would
better understand the state, and businesses subscribed for customers and employees because they recognized the value of the stories.
Hunhoff says he’s come to believe that “sense of place” is one of the great gifts a person can receive. “When you better understand the place you live, life becomes more interesting and more meaningful. You also understand the world as a whole when you know your own place.” South Dakota Magazine is now the state’s largest print publication, with 40,000 subscribers and an estimated 160,000 readers and a talented staff of 10 that publish in an 1875 brick house in Yankton built by Territorial Governor John Pennington. Hunhoff has written and co-authored four books on South Dakota. He also
served in the state legislature (19931998 and 2009-2016), championing farmers, workers, small business, and victims of discrimination. He is also a staunch protector of our natural resources. But his favorite role has always been to wander South Dakota with a Nikon and notebook, eyes alert for an interesting person or place. As he grows older, he’s often accompanied by his grandchildren, all of whom have inherited the family passion for South Dakota’s outdoors. Few South Dakotans have so extensively traveled and written about the state over a career now spanning 5 decades. In 2015, the Hunhoffs’ daughter, Katie, became publisher of the magazine; their son Chris is the CIO for Mount Marty. Chris and his wife Betsy also operate Yankton’s Boat House. The grandchildren are Steven, Laura, Maiya, Alex, Ben, and Maggie.
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HALL of FAME FAQ WHAT IS THE SOUTH DAKOTA HALL OF FAME? Founded in 1974 and named by the South Dakota State Legislature as the “Official State Hall of Fame,” the Hall’s original function was to recognize outstanding South Dakotans for their contribution to our state. Since that time, the Hall has expanded its mission to not only recognize excellence, but to influence others to embrace excellence as a core value. WHAT IS OUR MISSION? Our mission is to champion a culture of excellence in South Dakota. Every organization, from businesses and schools to government and family, has a culture that embraces shared values. We envision a state that culturally embraces excellence as a core value. This is a big dream, but one we think is possible. HOW DOES THE HALL OF FAME SUPPORT A CULTURE OF EXCELLENCE IN SOUTH DAKOTA? The South Dakota Hall of Fame Board of Directors encourages all forms
of achievement, and we champion a culture of excellence in several ways. Our annual Honors Ceremony inducts a select group of new Champions for Excellence each year. Our Legacy of Achievements program tells the continuing stories of our inductees. The personal stories of over 700 inductees are available online and in the Visitor & Education Center. Special exhibits focus on areas of achievement such as Agriculture, Business, Native American Heritage, Education, Political Leaders and Women. Their stories can inspire, educate, and build local connections in our fast-paced, global world. Our Legends & Learning program offers teachers a South Dakota history curriculum using online, interactive tools for storytelling and learning. Our Acts of Excellence program recognizes individual deeds and actions that demonstrate excellence throughout the state. WHAT ARE ACTS OF EXCELLENCE? Every day, South Dakotans do extraordinary things. We maintain a one-of-a-kind collaborative platform to recognize everyday stories of excellence. These real stories
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DOES THE STATE LEGISLATURE PROVIDE FINANCIAL SUPPORT? No. We are a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization, dependent on donations from individuals and organizations who share our belief in championing excellence. HOW ARE SOUTH DAKOTANS ELECTED TO THE HALL OF FAME EACH YEAR? Nominations are open to the public at our website, sdexcellence.org, with a deadline of February 1 each year. The Board reviews all nominations in a thorough and serious competitive process. The selections are made by secret ballot. Nominations are considered for three years. For more questions, contact the Hall at sdhallinfo@gmail.com or 605.234.4216.
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demonstrate what excellence in action looks like. They inspire others to embrace the pursuit of excellence. Visit sdexcellence.org to learn how you can recognize Acts of Excellence and help build a culture of excellence.
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SOUTH DAKOTA LEGENDS Our digital educational program tells the inspiring stories of over 700 South Dakota Champions for Excellence while helping teachers fulfill curriculum requirements in core subjects. Read, watch, and learn more at SouthDakotaLegends.com.
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WHY THE LEGENDS & LEARNING PROGRAM IS SPECIAL
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A permanent exhibit at the South Dakota Hall of Fame and Visitor Education Center
• The program is 100% free for school districts, teachers and students thanks to our generous supporters. • It’s multimedia, web-based and not in any textbook. Students like the interactive biographies, photos, videos and exercises. We believe that this program provides students with meaningful role models and inspiration for their own lives. • The year-long curriculum meets state standards in several areas. Students learn about history, vocabulary and other subjects through the lives of outstanding South Dakotans. • Designed by teachers, the curriculum is geared to 4th grade but is adaptable for students at any level. Includes teachers’ section with discussion questions & activities useful for all modules.
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As my students read, listened and got to know these Champions, they learned about the value of hard work, the importance of knowledge and perseverance, that being from tough circumstances can be an advantage and there are many paths to success. They learned how to accomplish great things.
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KITTY KINSMAN
LEADERSHIP FOR THE HEALTH LANDSCAPE OF SOUTH DAKOTA
1955 • CATEGORY POLITICAL
• HOMETOWN RAPID CITY, SD •
NOMINATED BY LIZ HAMBURG
Kitty Kinsman is a passionate advocate who has used her voice to positively influence the health and quality of life in South Dakota and her community. She is known for her strong leadership and for her ability to energize, engage and support others to get things done. Kitty grew up in Watertown SD, the oldest daughter of Earle and Connie Kinsman’s of six children. Her father ran a successful insurance business and was active in community and service organizations. Her mother was the family and office organizer, church volunteer and a person who could make anyone feel welcome. Kitty’s foray into public policy and advocacy began as part of the high school debate team where she learned to research issues, cultivate persuasive skills and work in teams. A University of Colorado graduate, Kitty
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returned to Watertown where she met the female Chamber CEO whose mentorship influenced Kitty’s early career. She encouraged Kitty to create a position as the first Executive Director of the SD Glacial Lakes Association. Kitty became the first Chair and volunteer lobbyist for the SD Tourism Caucus, a new statewide tourism advocacy group formed to advance legislation making Memorial Day a Monday holiday. That experience was impactful on two fronts -- the legislation passed and Kitty met her future husband, Steve Zellmer. In 1993, Kitty was hired as Assistant to the Secretary of the SD Department of Health (DOH) to spearhead its legislative efforts and special projects, including chairing the Governor Bill Janklow’s Fetal Alcohol Syndrome Advisory Council. Janklow appointed her Secretary of Health in 1985, one of the country’s youngest health officers. She was reappointed by Governor George S. Mickelson. While at the DOH, she and her team advanced several policy initiatives including: making all state facilities smokefree; creating the Office of Rural Health, a collaboration with the USD School of Medicine; placing a moratorium on nursing home bed construction to shift investment into noninstitutional options for persons in need of long term care; and launching the HEALTH
2000 initiative, an ambitious public/ private effort to improve the health status of South Dakotans. In 1989, Kitty received a Bush Foundation Leadership Fellowship and left state government to pursue a master’s degree at Stanford University Business School. The Stanford experience led to cofounding a health sciences software company to support pharmaceutical and biotech research in Silicon Valley with two classmates. The start-up venture underscored the importance of building effective teams and how technology could be used to support teams working remotely. Kitty returned to South Dakota in 1996 and was asked by a local Rapid City physician to help organize tobacco-free efforts. Kitty’s passion for health policy was rekindled. She formed The K Group to use her coalition building and advocacy skills to advance smokefree and other health policy initiatives. Kitty led the formation of the South Dakota Tobacco Free Kids Network in 1998, a coalition of 50 statewide organizations whose efforts over 12 years resulted in one of the country’s most comprehensive indoor smokefree laws. Kitty’s ability to build consensus and organized advocates continues to have a positive impact on access to healthcare in rural areas and services to persons with disabilities.
adults with disabilities in western South Dakota. Kitty has served on many boards, often contributing her leadership as chair to provide stability during critical times of executive transition and organizational change. Some of those organizations include the Black Hills Area Community Foundation, Rapid City Chamber, South Dakota Parks & Wildlife Foundation, Children’s Care, LifeScape Foundation, Junior Achievement, Black Hills Air Service Task Force, Community Health Center of the Black Hills and Wellmark South Dakota. She currently chairs the state Recreational Trails Advisory Council, is a member of Elevate Rapid City’s Public Policy Committee,
and serves on the non-partisan HER VOTE HER VOICE Centennial delegation appointed by Governor Kristi Noem to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the passage of the 19th Amendment and preserve and promote women’s history in South Dakota.
Kitty’s life story affirms the famous adage: “Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed people can change the world. Indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has.“ – Margaret Mead
A 2010 Athena Leadership Award recipient, Kitty’s leadership extends beyond her professional career. She believes everyone has a responsibility to volunteer to make our state and communities better places. She championed downtown revitalization in Rapid City and engaged donors to support projects that included relief to ranch families following the Atlas blizzard, completion of the Mickelson Trail, building Outdoor Campus West, and LifeScape’s center for children and 2020 HONORS CEREMONY • 27
HALL of FAME DONORS
Thank you for your support in championing a culture of excellence. Your generosity means that we may continue to honor, celebrate and connect inductees whose achievements serve as inspiration for us all to strive for excellence in South Dakota.
2019 PARTNERS IN EXCELLENCE
LEGACY $25,000 + Frank Farrar Rod & Glenna Fouberg Craig & Pat Lloyd Jim Scull
HERITAGE $10,000 - $24,999 Black Hills Energy Corporation CorTrust Bank Tony & Lorraine Bour Duhamel Broadcasting Enterprises First Premier Bank/Premier BankCard Clyde & Sharon Fredrickson Richard & Nancy Gowen Eddie & Christine Hamilton Kari Shanard Koenders Al & Irene Kurtenbach Dave & Kay Olson Bob & Carolyn Riter Jeff & Katie Scherschligt SDSU Marketing Showplace Wood Products, Inc. USD Foundation
ANCESTRY $2,500 - $9,999 Lynda Clark Adelstein Black Hills State University Rod Bowar Harry & Greta Chapman Eide Integrated Systems First Dakota National Bank Brian Hagg Bill & Carolyn Hinks Jennifer Fleming Gray Television Randy & Deb Houdek Tim Johnson Kennebec Telephone Company, Inc. Michelle Lavallee
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Milton Mutch Joy Nelson Rod & Ruth Parry Power/mation Duane Sander SDN Communications Lynn & Joan Seppala Al Schoeneman South Dakota Community Foundation Loren & Jean Tschetter US Bank Westhills Village
FOUNDER $1,000 - $2.499 Augustana University John Barlow Dick Brown John & Marci Burdick Pete & JoVayne Cappa Dale & Barbara Clement Thomas Daschle Durst Investments Eide Bailly Elman Enterprises - Elman Family Foundation ELO Prof., LLC Brad Estes Dennis & Jan Everson First Fidelity Bank Steve Flanery Dave & L.J. Geisler H and A Marilyn Hohm Hoyt Dave & Jan Johnson Glenn & Phyllis Jorgenson Dennis Knutson Shantel Krebs Sarah Richardson Larson Clark & Gerry Likness Jerry & Jolene Lohr Tom & Cam Loveland Anne Rieck McFarland Gailen & Denise Meyerink Rick & Valerie Melmer Midstate Communications Mark Millage
Kaye Nelson Mary Olinger Erica Peterson Raymond Peterson Jan & Margaret Puszynski Jack & Joyce Rentschler Dave & Tammy Rozenboom Scheels Louis & Carol Sebert Tom & Elaine Stone Ann McKay Thompson Venture Communications Margaret Cash Wegner Woodcraft Industries Woods, Fuller, Shultz & Smith Leon & Joyce Wrage
SUPPORTER $500 - $999 Chris Carlsen Gary & Kathy Conradi Davenport, Evans, Hurwitz & Smith Bill & Judy Olson Duhamel Doug Fuerstenau Dr. Jim Hansen Elaine Hartman Hayes Linda Hasselstrom Bret Healy Brian & Sarah Jennings Brad & Carol Johnson Gene & Pat Lebrun Donus & Lovila Roberts Max & Stephanie Herseth Sandlin Schoenhard Community Foundation Simpsons Printing Strider Sports International, Inc. Haven Stuck Billie Sutton Linda Lea Viken Bill Walsh & Jo Roebuck Pearson Terry Woster If you find a discrepancy in this donor list please accept our apologies and contact us at sdhallinfo@gmail.com. If there is a discrepancy we are able to update the digital copy which can also be printed by individuals as needed.
Congratulations Glenna Fouberg and all 2020 South Dakota Hall of Fame Inductees
Congratulations on your induction into the South Dakota Hall of Fame!
YOUR LIFETIME OF SERVICE IN THE AIR FORCE AND BEYOND MAKES THE LONG BLUE LINE PROUD! Your unending commitment and passion for educating future generations of Lake Area Technical Institute students is an inspiration to us all. Plus your efforts to strengthen the workforce and economy of your home state is equally as impressive. In addition, your support of local charities — including the Veteran’s Drug Court program — has had an immeasurable impact on your community and its residents. You truly embody the Air Force Academy core values of “Integrity First, Service Before Self and Excellence in all We Do.” “Second To None — Class of 1981”
USAF COL. (RET.) MICHAEL CARTNEY AIR FORCE ACADEMY CLASS OF 1981
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BRUCE LONG FOX
A LIFE OF SERVICE TO LAKOTA & NATIVE PEOPLE OF SOUTH DAKOTA
1956 • CATEGORY EDUCATION
• HOMETOWN RAPID CITY, SD •
NOMINATED BY DEBORAH GANGLOFF
One hundred ten Native American families have had jobs for 30 years in South Dakota because of the work of Bruce Long Fox and the team at Rural America Initiatives. Support from the RAI family and Board reaches to another 300 families in Rapid City and the Fort Thompson area. Bruce knows his efforts will help the next seven generations to survive and thrive. When families are centered in Lakota values of generosity, courage, respect, and wisdom Lakota Culture survives and grows. Bruce’s life and work have shown this. In 2010, the dropout rate for Native American students at Rapid City Central High School was 63%. That year a Lakota Fatherhood mentoring project developed by Bruce Long Fox and his RAI team entered the High School. Just ten years later the dropout rate was cut in half, to 31%. The Ateyapi program brings success for Native students. In its 25th
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year of operation it serves over 1000 Native students, grades 4 through 12 in the Rapid City School System. Bruce has been Executive Director of Rural America Initiatives since 1992. The non-profit organization employs Lakota and Native community members to serve needs of families who move to Rapid City by employing cultural strengths and Lakota language. Bruce has guided a muchappreciated Urban Head Start initiative supporting Native children and families.
“He is like a buffalo,” his wife Paula says when she speaks of him, “He stands strong in a storm and he feeds the people.” Born in Pierre, SD in 1956, Bruce lived in East Pierre where American Indian people from all
the Great Sioux Reservations came to live and work. It was a rough and tumble place. Kids learned survival skills and got in trouble with the law. When Bruce was 9 years old a judge told him, he would be a rapist and murderer by the age of 15 and sent him away to St. Elizabeth’s Boarding School in Wakpala, SD. When Bruce was at Wakpala the school staff thought something was wrong. He slept through school every day. Mrs. Sherwood, his fourth-grade teacher requested special testing for her student. The testing showed her fourth-grade student had a 10th grade reading level and knew 9th grade math. Life changed for Bruce. He was no longer labeled a special education student. Now he was gifted and talented! His teachers pushed him to achieve! Mrs. Sherwood and her family cared for him during the summers and as far as he was concerned, they adopted him.
Father Vine Deloria, Sr., the family’s Episcopal priest, arranged for Bruce to attend St. James School, a private college preparatory school in Maryland. He attended for five years and graduated in 1975. While there Bruce was honored with induction into the century-old fraternity of the Colonel Ringgold Society. At St. James Bruce received the education of a Southern gentleman. From the day he arrived at the Prep School, his football coach, D.I. Barr knew Bruce would attend Dartmouth College. Dartmouth was chartered as a school to educate Native Americans and Mr. Barr was proud to be an alumnus. Bruce applied for college admission to one school. Dartmouth College accepted him with an early decision. While at Dartmouth he learned much from Professor Michael Dorris, author of Yellow Raft In Blue Water and Native American studies professor. Dorris inspired Bruce to have a good heart for the People.
After three years at Dartmouth College Bruce transferred to the University of South Dakota at Vermillion where he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in English Literature and a Master of Business Administration. His business school Dean said he could go anywhere in the world and be successful. It turns out the place Bruce wanted to be was Rapid City, near the Black Hills. It was elders in the Lakota community of Rapid City and the men on the basketball court at the YMCA who sustained and encouraged Mr. Long Fox forward. These were the people who recognized Bruce as a human being and knew he had important gifts to share with the community.
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Walter Panzirer is passionate about serving people. He is the grandson of Leona Helmsley of The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust, which is devoted to supporting health care efforts around the United States.
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JACK MARSH
CHAMPION OF ETHICS AND HUMAN RIGHTS IN SOUTH DAKOTA
1949 • CATEGORY BUSINESS
• HOMETOWN SIOUX FALLS, SD •
NOMINATED BY MATTHEW JENSEN
A lifelong journalist and First Amendment champion, Jack Marsh is a South Dakotan by choice rather than birth. Since the Marsh family moved to Sioux Falls from the Northeast, Jack earned distinction in the state and nation, working inside and outside journalism and the news industry as an effective, credible voice for truth, fairness, justice, equity, education and excellence. Jack has led or launched several organizations, initiatives and programs aligned with his principles and interests. Those efforts have had an enduring positive impact on countless individuals and on society, in South Dakota and beyond. A crowning achievement occurred in 2017, three years after retirement, when Jack and colleague Randell Beck co-founded South Dakota News Watch, a publicly funded, nonprofit, independent news organization.
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Jack was born and raised in the thenbooming industrial city of Niagara Falls, N.Y., the youngest of four children and the only son. Named John S. Marsh Jr. after his father, he was nicknamed “Jack” at his mother’s insistence because she didn’t want anyone calling him “Junior.” As parents, John Sutherland Marsh and Muriel MacLaren Marsh were consistent in the behavior they modeled, the values they instilled and the expectations they set: unconditional love and loyalty to family and friends; unwavering honesty; kindness; quiet generosity; open-mindedness; and civic and social responsibility. Muriel Marsh, a former teacher, was dedicated to raising her children. John S. Marsh was arguably the most prominent public figure in the community, the former district attorney and a distinguished jurist. He
held elected office in New York State for 39 years. The government-service career of John S. Marsh also shaped aspects of family life, or what Jack’s father referred to as “Public Life.” Growing up as “Judge Marsh’s son” in the 1950s and early 1960s, Jack was schooled about personal responsibility, accountability and consequences. Jack learned about significant societal issues, about justice and about the legal system during many family discussions and by frequently accompanying his father to court on days off from school. Father and son developed a shared interest in government affairs, politics, current events and the watchdog role of newspapers. By his mid-teens, Jack was contemplating two career paths, either law or journalism. With support of his father and encouragement of a “newspaperman” who was a family friend, Jack chose journalism. Jack became a high school correspondent for the Niagara Falls Gazette, where later he was a newsroom summer intern for three years. Jack then had a reporter internship at the Chicago Daily News
the year before earning a B.A. in government from Baldwin-Wallace University, Berea, Ohio. After graduation, Jack joined the Rochester, N.Y., Times-Union, where he was a reporter and an editor for 11 years. He moved to Utica, N.Y., to become managing editor and then executive editor of the Daily Press and the Observer-Dispatch for nine years. Jack was publisher of the Daily Journal and president of Times Graphics, a commercial printing company in Vineland, N.J., for two years before moving to Sioux Falls in 1992. Jack was executive editor of the Argus Leader in Sioux Falls for nearly six years and an employee of the Gannett Co. for 27 years. In fall 1998, Freedom Forum founder Al Neuharth and CEO Charles Overby hired Jack at the Freedom Forum and its Newseum affiliate, where Jack held various executive roles for 16 years. From 1998 to 2001, Jack was director of the Newseum’s NewsCapade, a Freedom Forum mobile exhibit that visited all 50 states to promote a better understanding between the news media and the public.
operation of the Al Neuharth Media Center at the University of South Dakota, 2001-2014, as director and then president. In an additional role as president of the Freedom Forum Diversity Institute, Jack led the Freedom Forum's nationwide effort to improve media diversity and journalism education. Jack founded the American Indian Journalism Institute, 2001-2012, and co-founded the Crazy Horse Journalism Workshop, 2000-2012, at Crazy Horse Memorial. Jack is married to his college sweetheart, Betty Poreda Marsh, a retired school counselor. They have two daughters and sons-in-law: Dr. Elizabeth Jensen and Matthew Jensen; Colleen Olson and Drake Olson. Their seven grandchildren are: Libby, Claire and Muriel Jensen; John, Ainsley, Broderick and Brooks Olson.
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WALTER PANZIRER
IMPACTING THE LIVES OF NEARLY EVERY SOUTH DAKOTAN THROUGH PHILANTHROPY
1976 • CATEGORY PHILANTHROPIC
• HOMETOWN PIERRE, SD •
NOMINATED BY MITCH KREBS
Theologian, police officer, paramedic, firefighter, trustee, husband and father: these are the many titles, vocations and advocations of Walter Panzirer. What he is, above all else, is a servant who spends his life sharing his talents and treasures with others; those gifts will affect lives for generations. Born on December 23, 1976 in Los Angeles, California, Walter’s early childhood and education was much like many kids of the era. Looking toward the future, it became clear that improving lives and saving lives was a top priority. That desire led Walter to a theme of continual learning and improving in service. The lifesaving began when Walter became a paramedic and firefighter in California. Walter’s thirst for knowledge brought him to South Dakota where he studied business and history at Black Hills State University. His call to duty remained strong and that led to more posts as a police officer in Sturgis
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and Mitchell, South Dakota. While working in law enforcement in Mitchell, Walter felt a higher calling, so he began pastoral studies at MidAmerica Nazarene University. Walter would have been content spending his life serving as a police officer and saving lives as a paramedic, firefighter or a pastor, but fate led another calling; a calling that has impacted the lives of nearly all South Dakotans. When Walter’s grandmother, hotel magnate Leona Helmsley passed away, she named Walter one of five trustees of the Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust, who were tasked with improving lives by creating programs funded by the Helmsley fortune. Walter had to make the difficult decision of continuing his career path or honoring the wishes of his late grandmother. He chose the Trust. Walter’s collective experience in a variety of vocations and life situations told him there
was a great disparity in healthcare, between people who live in rural communities and those who live in cities in the upper Midwest. Simply put, it seemed a zip-code could determine whether a patient lived or died. Walter wanted to level the playing field. Armed with research that South Dakota and its neighboring states were among the lowest philanthropic funded healthcare states in the nation, Helmsley Trust dollars could make a tremendous impact almost immediately. The Rural Healthcare Program for the Helmsley Charitable Trust was conceived, built and operationalized under Walter’s direction. The program could have been based anywhere, but Walter knew in his heart that South Dakota should be home to the program.
As a trustee, Walter does not simply issue checks to worthy recipients, he determines the greatest needs, then conceptualizes a plan to create a partnership that best benefits all. Walter is a hands-on visionary who has funded over $120 million in SD through the Trust with lifesaving and life-changing technology, workforce, and training. It is safe to say that virtually every person in South Dakota has been personally affected by the generous, lifesaving and lifeimproving programs developed by Walter Panzirer. South Dakota is a much better place because of his giving spirit and dedication to collaborative philanthropy and initiatives that largely lessen the gap between rural patients and top-quality medical
care. In oncology, with major gifts to the Avera’s Prairie Center in Sioux Falls and the Helmsley Center in Pierre, SD and other gifts to smaller facilities, all South Dakotans are now within an hour of digital mammography and within ninety minutes to comprehensive cancer care. Every first responder, EMT and ambulance in South Dakota carry the latest, cutting-edge technology like AEDs, mechanical CPR and lifesaving devices for cardiac and stroke due to Walter’s vision and generosity. Among the most impactful investments for Walter and the Helmsley Trust is telemedicine. Over a decade ago, Walter learned of Avera’s innovative and aspirational approach and he knew that funding from the Trust was needed to accomplish the mission.
Ten years later and investments of over $100m, Avera is now seen as the gold-standard with its suite of eCare services and is used in more than thirty states in America. Walter was and remains a guiding force in pioneering telemedicine. Walter Panzirer’s mark on South Dakota is immense, but his humility would tell you that he is just a regular guy who wanted to make a difference. He acknowledges good fortune, blessings and partnerships as major reasons that he has been able to accomplish so much, and he is not done yet. Chief among those partners is Walter’s wife Tina, who as been an equal partner in all his endeavors. Walter, Tina and their five children call South Dakota home and they still return to their ranch and hunting lodge in rural Sully County.
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WOMEN of INFLUENCE
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FROM LEFT TO RIGHT, TOP TO BOTTOM: VIRGINIA DRIVING HAWK SNEVE, HELEN DUHAMEL, GLENNA FOUBERG, CHRISTINE HAMILTON, CAROLE HILLARD, MARILYN HOHM HOYT, KAY JORGENSEN, KITTY KINSMAN, ANN MCKAY THOMPSON, MARY OLINGER, JUDY OLSON DUHAMEL, MAMIE PYLE, ANNE RIECK MCFARLAND, BRIG. GEN. MYRNA WILLIAMSON (USA, RETIRED), EAGLE WOMAN WHO ALL LOOK AT
Jack Marsh S O U T H DA KO TA N B Y C H O I C E
In Honor of the Inductees to the South Dakota Hall of Fame, —
For acting upon the belief that all humans are born free and equal.
A Poetic Tribute
For tirelessly working toward the elimination of prejudice.
Modestly, They Seek Not Recognition by Name,
For continuing to lift up honesty, justice, and truth.
Nor the Glory Bestowed upon them by the Hall of Fame; But What a Misfortune it Would Surely Be,
And for championing a free and fair press in South Dakota.
If Their Good Deeds Were Lost to History. So Let Us Forget Not the Great Work They Have Done, Dedicated to Excellence
CONGR ATUL ATIONS ON YOUR LIFETIME OF ACHIEVEMENT
From your friends, family, colleagues, and community
Improving Quality of Life for Everyone; And to Their Legacy, Let Us Always Be True To Build An Even Better South Dakota, One of the Great States of the Red, White and Blue. —Brian D. Hagg
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SEN. LARRY PRESSLER
LOOKING BEYOND WHAT IS AND PURSUING WHAT COULD BE
1942 • CATEGORY POLITICAL
• HOMETOWN WASHINGTON, D.C. •
NOMINATED BY TED THOMAS
Former Sen. Larry Pressler, a Rhodes Scholar with a law degree from Harvard, served two combat tours in Vietnam and spent 22 years in Congress, including 18 in the U.S. Senate, where he chaired the Commerce, Science and Transportation Committees. At heart, though, the Humboldt native remains a farm kid who loves Class B basketball and knows how it feels to sleep on straw in the State Fair’s 4-H barn. For more than two decades in Congress, his focus, always, was on helping the people of South Dakota. After his election to the Senate, he wrote a book, “U.S. Senators from the Prairie.’’ Researching the lives of past South Dakota senators prompted Pressler to model his career after Sens. Richard F. Pettigrew and Peter Norbeck, both of whom devoted their service to improving their home state and its
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people. “I wanted to be a senator for South Dakota,’’ Pressler said. And he was. His work on the Telecommunications Act involved efforts to bring fiber-optic cable to South Dakota, giving residents of farms, ranches and small towns access to the Internet and connections to the rest of the world, a critical advancement for rural communities.
Think, for example, how South Dakota school children would have struggled during the COVID-19 pandemic of 2020 without distance learning capabilities. Pressler’s early 4-H experiences (he has a photo with President Kennedy, whom he
met because of his work as an allAmerican 4-H member) influenced his Senate efforts to increase funding for county agents and assistant agents, enhancing 4-H clubs across the state. Pressler secured aid for projects in every South Dakota county. He championed funding for research and professorial staffing at South Dakota colleges, and he played a key role in starting Lake Area Technical Institute in Watertown and enhancing programs at Mitchell Technical Institute. When Yankton College struggled, Pressler helped find a replacement, a federal prison that continues to operate today. Pressler entered politics in 1974, running for Congress during the post-Watergate reform era. When he first reached the U.S. House of Representatives the next year, he quickly became known for his aggressive service to constituents back home. He participated in hundreds of meetings annually in counties across South Dakota and made it a commitment to meet each year with leaders of Native American tribes in the state. In fact, he devoted one staff member’s full time to working on Native American
issues and problems. Pressler’s advocacy was essential to the creation and growth of the D, M&E Railroad, a vital transportation link that serves such various entities as the cement plant in Rapid City, bentonite plants in Belle Fourche and grain and ethanol operations across the state. A rail connection in Rapid City, “Pressler Junction,’’ recognizes his efforts, without which rail service might not exist in the state today. Pressler also played a key role in improvements to visitor safety and convenience at Mount Rushmore National Memorial, particularly on the highway leading from Keystone and the memorial. Throughout his career he worked on programs and projects to assure air service to South Dakota and on numerous projects that benefited Ellsworth Air Force Base. He helped to create the Earth Resources Observation and Science Data Center (EROS), a national archive of remotely sensed images of Earth’s land surface near Sioux Falls. From his first years in the House, he worked on projects to move Missouri River water to communities both West River and East River.
All of those things he did for South Dakota while maintaining a national presence. He is famously remembered as the senator who couldn’t be bribed during the FBI sting called ABSCAM. He briefly ran for president in 1980, focusing his campaign on Vietnam veterans’ issues. After the Senate, Pressler remained active in state and national issues, lecturing at universities across the country and around the globe. He serves on the Jericho Project’s Veteran Homeless Advisory Council, which has recently opened two homeless facilities for veterans in the Bronx and Harlem. Pressler and his wife, Harriet, have a daughter, Laura, and four grandchildren: Addison, Bethany, Julia, and Ryan. He divides his time between his farm in South Dakota and Washington, D. C. and still follows Men & Women’s Class B basketball in South Dakota. He played for the old Humbledt Eagles Basketball (now West Central). 2020 HONORS CEREMONY • 43
INNOVATORS in AGRICULTURE FROM LEFT TO RIGHT, TOP TO BOTTOM: PATRICIA ADRIAN, DR. DWAYNE BECK, JEFF BROIN, DENNY EVERSON, CHRISTINE HAMILTON, DR. SAM HOLLAND, RICHARD KJERSTAD, LYNDELL PETERSEN
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GIVING to the HALL Thank you for your support in championing a culture of excellence. Your generosity means we may continue to honor, celebrate and connect inductee achievements to build a culture of excellence in South Dakota.
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Legends & Learning Legacy ofcentrally-located Achievements Visitor and Education • Support the Center in Chamberlain. Acts of Excellence The center serves as a home for inductees, their rotating exhibits and archives, • Support the centrally-located Visitor and Education and connects us all at the annual honors weekend. Center in Chamberlain. The center serves as a home for inductees, their rotating exhibits and archives, and connects us all at the annual honors weekend. WE HAVE NO DEBT, AND CONTINUE TO SECURE OUR FINANCIAL FUTURE THROUGH: • An endowment campaign with targeted earnings that will cover at least a third of annual costs. The plan includes growing the endowment fund through planned giving. • Annual Board of Directors and Staff contributions. • Ongoing relationships with living donors, who financially support and participate in the mission and programming.
• An endowment campaign with targeted earnings that will cover at least a third of annual costs. The plan includes growing the endowment fund through planned giving.
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MAMIE PYLE
CHAMPION FOR THE WOMEN OF SD DURING THE WOMEN’S SUFFRAGE MOVEMENT
1866 - 1942 • CATEGORY POLITICAL
• HOMETOWN HURON, SD •
NOMINATED BY PATRICIA MILLER
Mary (Mamie) Shields Pyle was born in 1866. She moved to Dakota Territory as a young girl and worked as a schoolteacher in Brookings and Hand counties. In 1889, she moved to Huron with her husband, John Pyle. John died in 1902, leaving Mrs. Pyle at age 36 with 4 children (John, May, Nellie, and Gladys) and little money. Since 1868, suffragists had been working towards securing the right to vote for women. Multiple unsuccessful attempts were made to pass a women’s suffrage provision when this area was part of Dakota Territory. An unsuccessful effort was made to include a women’s suffrage provision in the original constitution for the State of South Dakota. And after becoming a state, three statewide votes were held trying to amend the constitution to add a women’s suffrage provision. All these efforts were unsuccessful.
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After the woman's suffrage amendment was defeated in South Dakota in 1910, Mrs. Pyle was elected president of the South Dakota Universal Franchise League. As president of the Franchise League, Mrs. Pyle successfully lobbied the South Dakota legislature to pass a women’s suffrage amendment three times and place it on the state-wide ballot for ratification. She made several changes to the League’s strategy—most importantly delinking the suffrage movement from prohibition. Additionally, instead of having district organizers, Mrs. Pyle implemented county leaders. The county leaders were responsible for finding township workers. Under this method, every household in South Dakota was contacted by someone locally who was committed to suffrage. During that period, the most persuasive argument against woman suffrage was that some women were opposed to having the right to vote. To counter this
argument, the League under Mrs. Pyle’s direction organized countyby-county petition drives. In 1918, 95% of the women in South Dakota to whom a suffrage petition was presented signed it, indicating they were willing to assume the responsibility of being voters. The League then printed and mailed the signed petitions, along with two suffrage pamphlets, to each voter in each county. Along with these efforts, Mrs. Pyle traveled the state giving speeches, writing about suffrage for newspapers, raising money, and recruiting volunteers in each county and township in South Dakota. On November 6, 1918, the Citizenship Amendment passed with 64% of the vote cast, and the disenfranchisement of half of the citizens of South Dakota ended. Mrs. Pyle, with the help of many others, was able to successfully complete a 50-year effort so all women across the state of South Dakota could vote in all South Dakota elections, as well as run for and hold public office. Women today are still able to benefit from the efforts of Mrs. Pyle and the early suffragists.
When voters passed the amendment in 1918, South Dakota became the 15th state to grant women the right to vote. Two years later, again with Mrs. Pyle’s assistance, South Dakota became the 21st state to ratify the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, making women full citizens with the right to vote and hold government office. Mrs. Pyle gained national recognition as a result of the victory. In 1915 and 1917, she was a delegate to the National Suffrage Convention in Washington, D.C., and in St. Louis, Missouri, in 1919.
On February 16, 1920, she was placed on the Honor Roll of the National Woman Suffrage Association for her distinguished service to the cause of Woman Suffrage in America.
She served on the College Board of Trustees for Huron College for 45 years, a college that she and her husband had helped establish. She earned the South Dakota Mother of the Year honor in 1947, recognizing her homemaking and child rearing philosophy. Her daughter, Gladys Pyle, used the rights her mother had fought for and was elected by South Dakota voters as the first female member of the state House of Representatives and the United States Senate. Mrs. Pyle died in 1949, following an extended illness. The Pyle family home in Huron has been turned into a museum and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
She was one of the first women to become a presidential elector in 1921. 2020 HONORS CEREMONY • 47
2020 INDUCTEE CLASS ANNIVERSARIES
1980 INDUCTEES 40 YEARS
Robert (Bob) Barker Baxter Berry Hilton Briggs Dona Brown Marion Bruce James Bump Robert Dowdell Robert Hipple George Robert Hunter Fredrick James Jennewein Ralph Jones General David Jones Sam Keck Stan Marshall Bishop Martin Marty Billy Mills Al Neuharth Jim Pollock Warner Charles Putman Robert Van Demark Anna Valley Wright
1985 INDUCTEES 35 YEARS
Reece Eran Bligh Chester Four Bear Jake Herman Charles Clayton Jennings Theodore Raymond Jennings Leonel Morgan Jensen Isabel Louise Jordan Lillie Kunkle James Monson Madden Joseph Robbie Harold William Shunk Kay Riordan Steuerwald Stephen Travis Lucy Tullis Fr. John Vogel John Charles Waldron Flora Huston Ziemann
1990 INDUCTEES 30 YEARS
Patrick Cowan Gilbert Fite Ruth Halligan Erling Haugo Irma King Arthur Kroetch Alice Kundert Raymond "Bud" Livermore Doris Livermore Narcisse Narcelle Oswald Schock Al Schock Verne Sheppard Warren Williamson
1995 INDUCTEES 25 YEARS
James Abdnor Florence Atkinson Dr. Joseph Cash Billy Etbauer Dave Evans Mildred Fielder Alex Johnson Joe Knippling John Moisan Ralph Morris Maurice Murphey Gary Owens Dr. Theodore Schultz Winifred Speece Billie Sutton Robert Wheeler Dr. Paul Wright
Each year an Anniversary Reunion is held to invite back all the reunion members for an honoring of their induction, plus a welcome from them to the new inductees. Eight classes of reunion members are invited that represent the inductees since the beginning of the organization in 1974.
2000 INDUCTEES
2005 INDUCTEES
2010 INDUCTEES
2015 INDUCTEES
Patricia Adrian R. Herbert Bowden Earl Brockelsby Charles II Burke Charles Croes Raymond Gallagher William McDermott Helen Miller Dr. Brooks Ranney Rev. Dr. Harold Salem Dr. Richard Schleusener Gordon Thomsen Durand Young
Ordell Braase Alton Cornella Robert "Bob" Duxbury Dr. Douglas W. Fuerstenau Richard Greeno Pearl Hoel Fr. Henry Hogebach SCJ Harvey Jewett IV Roger Kasa R. Barrett Lowe Chester McVay Harriet Montgomery Dr. Robert Ryan William Wilson
Clarence Auld Dale Clement Sam Dupris Geraldean Fluke Gordon Garnos James Kuehn Greg Latza John Lillibridge Lawrence Piersol Alvin Schoeneman Thomas Stone Eagle Woman Who All Look At Howard Wood
Dodie Brown Dennis Everson Arthur LaCroix Craig Lloyd Robert Mudge Duane Sander Ann McKay Thompson Dr. Loren Tschetter Leon Wrage
20 YEARS
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15 YEARS
10 YEARS
5 YEARS
Hall of Fame
INDUCTEES 2020 Directory For 45 years, the South Dakota Hall of Fame has sought to honor, recognize, and distribute the stories of everyday people who have found the strength to chase their dreams, no matter the obstacles they faced along the way. The 700-plus inductees in the Hall of Fame come from all backgrounds and corners of our state. These Dream Chasers serve as inspiration for us all to strive for excellence and chase our own dreams today, tomorrow, and well into the future. Thus, our mission to Champion a Culture of Excellence in South Dakota continues.
DIRECTORY KEY Last Name, First Name, Year of Induction, Category Abbreviation, Hometown
CATEGORY ABBREVIATIONS AG — Agriculture AE — Arts & Entertainment G — General H — Historical P — Professional S — Sports
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A Abbott, Cleveland 2018, G, Watertown, SD Abbott, Hazel 1984, G, Old Bon Homme, SD Abbott, James W. 2017, P, Yankton, SD Abdallah, Gene 2011, G, Sioux Falls, SD Abdnor, James 1995, G, Kennebec, SD Abourezk, James 2012, G, Sioux Falls, SD Adee, Richard 2014, AG, Bruce, SD Adelstein, Stan 2006, G, Rapid City, SD Adrian, Patricia 2000, G, Mission, SD Akeley, Lewis E. 1978, G, Claredon, NY Alewel, Hubert 2002, P, Concordia, MO Alex, Robert 1992, H, Bettendorf, IA Alvine, Frank 2009, P, Sioux Falls, SD Amiotte, Arthur 1997, AE, Pine Ridge, SD Amiotte, Emma 1987, H, Manderson, SD Amundson, Dr. Loren H. 1997, P, Sioux Falls, SD Anderson, Elenora 2002, H, Hartford, SD Anderson, George 2007, S, Bridgewater, SD Anderson, Philip 2002, H, Rowena, SD Aplan, Dr. Frank 1998, P, Fort Pierre, SD Aplan, James 1998, H, Fort Pierre, SD Ash, Ben 1986, G, White County, IN Ashley, Vernon 1991, H, Buffalo County, SD Asmussen, William 1978, G, Agar, SD Atkinson, Florence 1995, P, Plankinton, SD Auld, Clarence 2010, P, Plankinton Ayres, Homer 1989, G, Pierre, SD
B Babcock, Thornton 1981, G, Werth, Winona County, MN Backer, Ronald 1996, AE, Worthing, SD Balcer, Dr. Charles 2003, G, McGregor, IA Bamble, John 1978, P, Lemmon, SD Bareis, Reuben 2019, P, Rapid City, SD Barker, Raleigh 1993, P, Denby, SD Barker, Robert (Bob) 1980, AE, Mission, SD Barlow, John 2016, P, Rapid City, SD Barnett, Don 2011, H, Littleton, CO Barns, Shirley 2004, G, White Lake, SD Barr, Claude 1987, AE, Smithwick, SD Bartels, Edith 2004, G, Gettysburg, SD Bartron, Dr. G. Robert 1999, P, Watertown, SD Batcheller, Paul 1991, P, Gayville, SD Baum, L. Frank 2002, AE, Chittenango, NY Beacom, Miles 2013, P, Sioux Falls, SD Beadle, William Henry Harrison 1979, G, Madison, SD Beck, Dwayne 2007, G, Pierre, SD Beede, Grace 1978, G, Vermillion, SD Bell, James 2006, P, Pierce, NE Bender, Bennie 1983, G, Mobridge, SD Bergh, Helen 1997, G, Aberdeen, SD Berry, Baxter 1980, G, Belvidere, SD Berry, Lyndall 1989, G, Interior, SD Berry, Scotte (Ote) 1991, G, Rapid City, SD Berry, Thomas 1978, G, Belvidere, SD Bien, Lyle 1997, G, Britton, SD Bird, JoAnne 1992, AE, Brookings, SD Birkland, Bertyne 1998, G, Canton, SD Black Elk, Nicholas 2018, G, Pine Ridge, SD Blake, J. Bruce 2009, H, Sioux Falls, SD Blakey, Theodore 1997, G, Yankton, SD Bligh, Reece 1985, G, Norris, SD Blue Cloud, Mahpiyato 1988, H, Eastern, SD Blum, Bartine (Bart) 2009, G, Reliance, SD Blum, Pat 2006, G, Reliance, SD Blumenthal, Abraham 1978, P, Deadwood, SD Bober, Sam 1991, G, Borzova, Ukraine
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Bogue, Andrew 2017, P, Parker, SD Boland, John 1978, P, Rapid City, SD Bombera, Fr. Alexander T.O.R. 2001, G, Plankinton, SD Bones,Walter 1988, G, Minneapolis, MN Booth, DeWitt 1988, P, Spearfish, SD Bour, Tony 2019, P, Sioux Falls, SD Bordeaux, Lionel 1993, H, Mellette County, SD Borglum, John Gutzon 1978, AE, Bear Lake, ID Bouska, Monsignor Emanuel 1986, G, Borovany, Czechoslovakia Bowar, Rod 2018, P, Kennebec, SD Bowden, R. Herbert 2000, P, Sioux Falls, SD Braase, Ordell 2005, S, Mitchell, SD Bregenzer, Fr. Columban 1988, G, Wehringer, Germany Brennan, Ada 1986, H, Belleville, OH Brennan, John 1978, P, Highland, WI Brennan, Ruth 2013, AE, Sioux Falls, SD Bridge, George 1991, G, Vermillion, SD Briggs, Hilton 1980, G, Cairo, IA Brockelsby, Earl 2000, P, Rapid City, SD Broin, Jeff 2017, AG, Kenyon, MN Brokaw, Tom 1991, AE, Webster, SD Brown, Dick 2019, P, Dell Rapids, SD Brown, Dodie 2015, P, Rapid City, SD Brown, Dona Susan 1980, G, Huron, SD Brown, Jeremiah 1978, G, Fort Wayne, IN Brown, Sue 2008, P, Geneseo, IL Brownell, Sam 1986, G, Sterling, CO Bruce, Marion 1980, G, Winterset, IA Buche, August (Gus) 1994, P, Darlington, WI Buechel, Fr. Eugene 1978, G, Fulda, Germany Buechler, Dr. Alvin 1989, P, Gettysburg, SD Bump, Dr. James 1980, G, Scenic, SD Bunt, Paul 1978, S, Aberdeen, SD Burke, Charles 1981, G, Pierre, SD Burke, Charles II 2000, P, Pierre, SD Burns, Robert 2016, P, Brookings, SD Busch, Martin 2004, AE, Wolsey, SD
C Cacavas, John 1994, AE, Aberdeen, SD Calvin, John 2019, P, Watertown, SD Carberry, William 1978, S, unknown Carlsen, Ernest 2017, P, Newell, SD Carlson, Henry 1997, P, Sioux Falls, SD Carlson, Henry Jr. 2009, P, Sioux Falls, SD Carr, John 1987, G, Springview, NE Cartney, Mike 2020, E, Watertown, SD Case, Francis 1978, G, Everly, SD Casey, Dr. Dennis 2004, P, Mitchell, SD Cash, Dr. Joseph 1995, G, Bonesteel, SD Christen, Paul 1989, P, Mitchell, SD Christensen, David 1998, P, Brookings, SD Christenson, Bernard 2013, P, Britton, SD Christopherson, Fred 1978, AE, Toronto, SD Chytka, Tony 1984, AE, Yankton, SD Clark, Charles Badger 1978, AE, Deadwood, SD Clarkson, James (Al) 1982, P, Tucker County, WV Clasen, Matthias 1978, G, Stacyville, IA Clay, Charles "Eddie" 2007, G, Hot Springs, SD Claymore, Basil 1978, P, St. Louis, MO Cleberg, Harold 1999, P, Redfield, SD Clement, Dale 2010, P, Tarkio, MO Cleveland, Herbert 2009, G, Rapid City, SD Coakley, Sister Colman 1997, G, Cork City, Ireland Coffield, Lucille 1997, G, Alden, MN Conger, Dane 1994, G, Buffalo Gap, SD Conn, Herb 2011, H, White Mountains, NH
Conn, Jan 2011, H, White Mountains, NH Connolly, Joseph 1978, G, Cleveland, OH Conradi, Gary 2011, P, Sioux Falls, SD Cornell, Carl 1978, G, Coldwater, MI Cornella, Alton 2005, G, Hettinger, ND Corning, Gen. Duane 1982, G, Madison, SD Cosgrove, Archie 1978, G, Bixby, SD Coulson, Sanford 1978, G, McKeesport, PA Cowan, Patrick 1990, G, Highmore, SD Cox, James 1978, G, Humboldt County, IA Cozad, Fred 2014, P, Bennett County, SD Crazy Horse 1978, H, near Rapid Creek, SD Creamer, Dr. Frank 1983, P, Hartwick, IA Croes, Charles 2000, G, Wessington, SD Culter, Richard 2007, P, Sioux Falls, SD Cundill, Frank 1986, P, Maquoketa, IA Cunningham, Walter 1986, G, Sheldon, MO
D Dahl, Arndt 1978, AE, Ada, MN Dahlin, Dr. David 1992, P, Beresford, SD Dake, Earl 1979, G, Wessington, SD Daschle, Thomas 2008, G, Aberdeen, SD Day, Delbert (Bud) 1992, P, Ziebach County, SD Dean, Almon (Hoadley) 1981, P, Buffalo, SD Dean, Dr. Roscoe 1993, P, Wessington Springs, SD Dean, Roscoe E. 1981, G, Wessington Springs, SD Dean, Tony 2011, AE, Mandan, ND DeBoer, Leonard 1996, G, Madison, SD Dedrick, Dave 1999, AE, Sioux Falls, SD Defender, George 1984, G, Kenel, SD Delbridge, Carelton 1991, P, Beresford, SD Deloria, Rev. Vine 1978, G, Wakpala, SD Dennis, Gerald (Pee Wee) 2004, G, Midland, SD DeSart, Ora 1989, G, Mobridge, SD Deuter, Cat 1981, AE, Rapid City, SD Deuter, Dan 1981, AE, Ree Heights, SD Digmann S.J., Fr. Florentine 1978, G, Germany Donahoe, Dr. William 1988, P, Sioux Falls, SD Donohue, Parnell 1988, P, Bonesteel, SD Dougherty, William 2009, G, Sioux Falls, SD Dowdell, Robert 1980, G, Iowa Falls, IA Doyle, Msgr. James Michael 2007, G, Lennox, SD Driscoll, Robert 1979, P, Lead, SD Dudley, Rev. Joseph 1994, AE, Charles Mix County, SD Duhamel, Helen Seidell 2019, P, Rapid City, SD Duhamel, Judy Olson 2014, G, Rapid City, SD Dunkak, William 1978, S, Gregory, SD Dunker, Leigh 1991, S, Warner, SD Dunn, Harvey 1978, AE, Manchester, SD Dunn, James 2002, G, Lead, SD Dupris, Sam 2010, G, Cheyenne Agency, SD Dupruis, Frederick 1986, H, Longueil, Canada Duxbury, Robert (Bob) 2005, G, Wessington, SD Dvorak, Joseph 1984, AE, Tabor, SD Dykhouse, Dana 2011, P, Rock Rapids, IA
E Eastman, Dr. Charles 1978, P, Manitoba, Canada Edmunds, Newton 1978, G, Yankton, SD Egan, C. John Jr 2003, AE, Sioux Falls, SD Eidson, Ernest 1978, G, Nolan County, TX Ekstrum, Richard 2003, G, Kimball, SD Elson, Esther 1994, G, Harding County, SD Emery, James 2014, H, Rosebud, SD Emmerich, James 1979, S, New Ulm, MN
Erskine, Carroll 1984, G, Binghamton, NY Etbauer, Billy 1995, G, Ree Heights, SD Etbauer, Robert 1991, G, Ree Heights, SD Evans, Dave 1995, S, Alpena, SD Evans, Fredrick 1984, P, Parkman, OH Evans, Kyle 1989, AE, Wessington Springs, SD Everson, Dennis 2015, AG, Yankton, SD
F Fairchild, Grace 1978, G, Philip, SD Farber, Dr. William 1979, G, Vermillion, SD Farrar, Frank 2006, P, Britton, SD Feeney, Andrew 1978, G, Wendte, SD Feist, Lynn 2004, P, Rapid City, SD Fielder, Mildred 1995, AE, Quinn, SD Fischer, Carl 1983, P, Fort Pierre, SD Fite, Gilbert 1990, G, Wessington Springs, SD Flaigg, Louis 1978, G, Deadwood, SD Flaws, Lorraine 2002, H, Fort Thompson, SD Flood, Renee Sansom 1996, AE, Hill City, SD Floren, Myron 1994, AE, Roslyn, SD Floyd, Joseph 1991, AE, Minneapolis, MN Fluke, Geraldean 2010, P, Winner, SD Forney, Marjorie 2001, G, Griffith, IN Fosness, Gordon 2008, S, Presho, SD Foss, Joseph 1978, G, Sioux Falls, SD Foss, Wilbur 1989, AE, Freeman, SD Fouberg, Glenna 2020, E, Aberdeen, SD Fouberg, Rodney 2008, P, Letcher, SD Four Bear, Chester 1985, H, Kenel, SD Frazier, Dr. George 1978, P, Santee, NE Fredrickson, Clyde 2019, P, Britton, SD Fredrikson, Dr. Roger 2006, G, Mission City, B.C. Friggens, Paul 1989, AE, St. Onge, SD Froiland, Sven 1987, G, Clear Lake, SD Fuegen, Norman 1986, AE, Reliance, SD Fuerstenau, Dr. Douglas W. 2005, G, Rapid City, SD Fuerstenau, Dr. Maurice 2006, G, Rapid City, SD
G Gall, Chief 1978, H, Standing Rock Reservation, ND Gallagher, Raymond 2000, G, Sioux Falls, SD Gamage, Harry 1978, S, Macomb, IL Garnos, Gordon 2010, P, Watertown, SD Gauger, John 1984, G, Clear Lake, SD Geisler, Dave 2004, P, Murdo, SD George, Abner 1993, AE, St. Paul, MN German, George 1979, AE, Princeville, IL Giago, Tim 1994, AE, Pine Ridge, SD Gier Delta David, 2020, AE, Sioux Falls, SD Gideon, Cecil (C.C) 1992, H, Long Lake, MN Gilfillan, Archer 1979, AE, White Earth, MN Glass, Hugh 1982, H, Pennsylvania Glaus, John 1992, G, Chamberlain, SD Glover, L. Frank 1978, G, Vale, SD Gnirk, Adeline 1987, AE, Burke, SD Goodell, Harold 1978, S, Rapid City, SD Gossage, Alice 1978, AE, Vermillion, SD Gowen, Dr. Richard 2012, P, Rapid City, SD Graf, Sister Juliana 1978, G, Seebach, Switzerland Grass, Chief John 1978, H, Standing Rock Reservation, ND Green, John 1991, AE, Madison, SD Green, Richard 1981, S, Mitchell, SD Greener, Charles 1986, AE, Lancaster, WI Greeno, Richard 2005, S, Amherst, SD Gries, John Paul 1986, P, Washington, D.C.
Griffith, Catherine 1986, G, Philip, SD Grimme, Eilers 1978, G, Howard, SD Groethe, Bill 2019, AE, Rapid City, SD Gross, Dr. Phil 1994, P, Freeman, SD Groth, Mary Gorder 1994, AE, Aberdeen, SD Guhin, Michael 1989, G, Maple Grove, WI
H Habeger, Joseph 2001, H, Ramona, SD Habeger, Joseph 2001, G, Ramona, SD Hage, Curtis 2011, P, Halstad, MN Haisch, Curley 1998, G, Bonesteel, SD Haisch, Rose 1998, G, Bonesteel, SD Hall, Bert 1978, G, Gann Valley, SD Hall, Edwin (Forrest) 1982, G, Granley, MO Halleen, Shirley 2013, G, Sioux Falls, SD Halligan, Kenneth 1996, G, Parmalee, SD Halligan, Ruth 1990, G, Cavour, SD Ham Ernest 1978, G, Rapid City, SD Hamilton, Christine 2016, AG, Oacoma, SD Hamre, Dr. John 1998, G, Clark, SD Hansen, Alvin 1978, G, Viborg, SD Hansen, Dr. James O. 2008, G, Spearfish, SD Hansen, Leo 1994, G, Aberdeen, SD Hansen, N.E. (Niels) 2017, AG, Des Moines, IA Hanson, Gordon 2008, AE, Hayti, SD Hanson, Leif 1988, G, Mt. Vernon, SD Hanthorn, Melvin 1998, G, Watertown, SD Harbert, Samuel 1978, G, Hanson County, SD Hardy, Carroll 1992, S, Sturgis, SD Harris, Capt. Cecil 1994, G, Cresbard, SD Harrison, Benjamin 1982, G, Indianola, TX Harrison, Mick 1982, AE, Mobridge, SD Hart, Mary 1992, AE, Sioux Falls, SD Hartman, Earl (Gene) 1999, G, Garden City, SD Hartmann S.J., Br. Andrew 1978, G, Germany Hasselstrom, Linda 1989, AE, Hermosa, SD Hauffe, Albert 1996, G, Chicago, IL Haugo, Erling 1990, P, Lake Mills, IA Hauk, Joy 1989, G, Mt. Vernon, IA Hayes, Dr. Robert 1987, P, Huntsville, OH Hegg, Peter 2008, P, Sioux Falls, SD Heim, Anthony 1996, G, Faulkton, SD Henkin, Sylvia 1993, P, Sheldon, IA Henley, Garney 1979, S, Hayti, SD Herman, Jake 1985, G, Pine Ridge, SD Herseth Sandlin, Stephanie 2017, P, Groton, SD Hertz, Rev. Rudolf 1981, G, Hamburg, Germany Hill, Francis 1979, P, Easthampton, MA Hillard, Carole 2007, G, Rapid City, SD Hinks, William 2011, P, Siren, WI Hipple, Robert 1980, AE, Pierre, SD Hoel, Pearl 2005, G, Rapid City, SD Hoffman, Rev. Ralph 1978, G, Selby, SD Hogebach SCJ, Fr. Henry 2005, G, Wildeshausen (Oldenburg), Germany Hogen, Marvis 1997, G, Kadoka, SD Hohf, Dr. Silas 1979, P, Wakonda, SD Hohm, Dr. Paul 1987, P, Huron, SD Holland, Sam 2009, G, Pierre, SD Holm, Richard 2016, P, Brookings, SD Hopkins, Boyd, Sr. 1998, P, Dalzell, SD Houck, L. Roy 1984, G, Gettysburg, SD Houck, Nellie 1982, G, Walworth County, SD Houston, Martin 1983, G, Bellwood, NE Hovland, Eunice 1998, G, Canton, SD Hovland, Howard 1998, G, Kiester, MN Howe, Dorothy Jean 2009, G, Pierre, SD Howe, Everet (Ep) 1999, G, McLaughlin, SD Howe, Oscar 1979, AE, Crow Creek, SD Hoy, Carl 1978, S, Huron, SD
Hoyt, Marilyn Hohm 2018, P, Huron, SD Hudson, Henry 1978, G, Sandhills, MO Hughes, John 1979, P, Scott County, IA Hughes, William 1986, G, Fort Pierre, SD Humphrey, Hubert 1989, G, Doland, SD Hunhoff, Bernie 2020, AE, Yankton, SD Hunt, Robert 1983, S, Rapid City, SD Hunter, George 1980, P, Deadwood, SD Huseboe, Dr. Arthur 2001, G, Sioux Falls, SD Huseboe, Dr. Doris 2001, AE, Sioux Falls, SD Hustead, Dwight (Bill) 1994, P, Wall, SD Hustead, Theodore 1978, P, Wall, SD
I Ice, Clyde 1979, G, St. Lawrence, SD Ingalls, Lawrence 1984, G, Royal Center Twp, SD Iron Nation, Chief Solomon 2006, H, Lower Brule, SD Iversen, Ole 1978, G, Koling, Denmark
J Jackson, Thomas 1982, G, Silver City, IA Jacobs, Emma 1996, G, Lacreek, SD Janklow, William 2013, G, Chicago, IL Jansen, Ida 1989, AE, Draper, SD Jarvis, Dr. Abbie 1982, P, Zanesville, OH Jennewein, Fredrick 1980, G, Maple Landing, IA Jennewien, J. Leonard 1978, G, Bison, SD Jennings, Charles (Clayton) 1985, G, Boone County, IA Jennings, Theodore 1985, G, Boone County, IA Jensen, Leonel 1985, AE, Viborg, SD Jetty, Alfred (Bud) 2003, H, St. Michael, ND Jewett IV, Harvey 2005, P, Aberdeen, SD Johnson, Alex 1995, AE, Watertown, SD Johnson, Arthur 1983, P, Lead, SD Johnson, Clint 1984, G, Spearfish, SD Johnson, George 1984, P, Gregory, SD Johnson, Tim 2019, G, Vermillion, SD Jones, Bishop Harold 1978, G, Santee, NE Jones, Dr. Warren 1993, P, Bowdle, SD Jones, Gen. David 1980, G, Minot, ND Jones, Ralph 1980, G, Midland, SD Jones, Tom 1978, G, Platteville, WI Jordan, Isabel 1985, G, Fort Pierre, SD Jordeth, Einar 1986, G, Lebanon, SD Jorgensen, Kay 2014, G, Winner, SD Jorgenson, Glenn 1996, P, Hayti, SD Joy, Charles (C.D.) 1978, G, West Mitchell, IA Judy, Sherman 1978, G, Sanborn County, SD Jurisch, Clarence 1984, G, Hart Table, SD
K Kantack, Dr. Benjamin 1998, G, Greenleaf, KS Karl, Elmer 2008, P, Gregory, SD Karolevitz, Robert 1978, AE, Yankton, SD Karolevitz, Robert 1986, AE, Yankton, SD Kasa, Roger 2005, G, Northfield, MN Kebach, Rolland 1978, G, Owanka, SD Keck, Rev. Samuel 1980, G, Odebolt, IA Keltgen, Keith 2001, P, Gettysburg, SD Kenaston, Dr. Hampton 1981, P, Elmwood, NE Kenaston, Jean May 1981, G, Clarion, PA Kesling, Jakways 1988, P, Timber Lake, SD Kilian, Thomas 1992, G, Vilas, SD King, Irma 1990, AE, Pierre, SD King, Marcus 2016, G, Platte, SD Kinsman, Kitty, 2020, Rapid City, SD Kirby, Joe 1993, P, Lawler, IA Kirsch, Laura 1981, G, Spring Valley Township,
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SD Kjerstad, Richard 2006, G, Quinn, SD Kneip, Richard 2004, G, Elkton, SD Knippling, Joe 1995, G, Gann Valley, SD Knutson, Dennis 2013, P, Sioux Falls, SD Knutson, Dr. Wayne 2001, G, Clay County, SD Koerner, JoEllen 2016, P, Freeman, SD Koller, Joseph 1983, AE, Edgemont, SD Korkow, Ervin 1992, G, Canning, SD Koupal, Nancy Tystad 2009, H, Pierre, SD Krabbenhoft, Kelby 2017, P, Mankato, MN Kramar, Oldrich (Frank) 1986, G, Springfield, SD Kramer, Dr. J. Howard 2002, G, Canning, SD Krause, Herbert 1978, G, Fergus Falls, MN Kribell, Sister Blanche 2003, P, Beresford, SD Kroetch, Arthur 1990, P, Philip, SD Kuehn, James 2010, P, Mobridge, SD Kundert, Alice 1990, G, Mobridge, SD Kunkle, Lillie 1985, G, Centerville, SD Kurtenbach, Aelred 1992, P, Parkston, SD
L LaCroix, Arthur 2015, H, Rapid City, SD Lamont, Frances (Peg) 1991, G, Aberdeen, SD Lamphere, Dale 1987, AE, Sturgis, SD Lane, Rose Wilder 1981, AE, DeSmet, SD Larsen, Wallace 1993, G, Centerville, SD Larson, Andre 2006, AE, Brookings, SD Larson, Arne 1979, G, Vermillion, SD Latza, Greg 2010, AE, Letcher, SD Lawrence, Carl 1978, G, Madison, WI Lawrence, Ernest 1978, P, Canton, SD LeBeau, Marcella 2006, P, Promise, SD Lebrun, Gene 2012, P, Langdon, ND Lebrun, Pat 2013, G, Langdon, ND Lee, Robert 1978, AE, Minneapolis, MN Lee, Warren 1978, G, Corning, IA Leite, Evelyn 2008, P, Ft. Pierre, SD Lemley, Pete 1986, G, Creston, IA Lemmon, George (Ed) 1994, H, Nebraska City, NE Lien, Charles 1988, P, Rapid City, SD Lillibridge, John 2010, P, Burke, SD Lillibridge, Lowell Louis 2002, P, Burke, SD Lillibridge, Thomas 2013, P, Burke, SD Linton, Sherwin 2007, AE, Hazel, SD Livermore, Doris 1990, G, Murdo, SD Livermore, Raymond (Bud) 1990, G, Pierre, SD Lloyd, Craig 2015, P, Sioux Falls, SD Lohr, Jerome 1999, P, Clark County, SD Long Fox, Bruce, 2020, E, Rapid City, SD Lopez, Albert 1983, G, Timber Lake, SD Loriks, C. Emil 1979, G, Kingsbury County, SD Loucks, John T. 2009, G, Rapid City, SD Loveland,Tom 2018, P, Sioux Falls, SD Lowe, R. Barrett 2005, G, Madison, SD
M MacKay, Mercedes 1983, G, Pierre, SD MacKenzie, Murdo 1979, G, unknown Madden, James 1985, P, Castlewood, SD Madison, James 1986, G, Rapid City, SD Madsen, Helen 2003, P, Flandreau, SD Madsen, LuVerne 2003, P, Volga, SD Mallet, Ida 1996, G, Presho, SD Malone, Dr. Thomas F 2003, P, Milesville, SD Manfred, Frederick 1985, AE, Luverne, MN Mangulis, Dr. George 1992, P, Philip, SD Manke, John 1986, G, Edgemont, SD March, Guy 1978, G, Hill City, SD
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Marken, Jack 2004, AE, Akron, OH Marking, James 1979, S, Parkston, SD Marschalk, Paul 1988, S, Warroad, MN Marsh, Jack, 2020, B, Niagara Falls, N.Y. Marshall, Stanley 1980, S, Centerville, SD Martens, Glenn 1978, P, Big Stone City, SD Martin, Dr. James 2008, G, Igloo, SD Martin, John 1978, S, Springfield, SD Marty, Bishop Martin 1980, G, Schwyz, Switzerland Marty, George 1984, G, Hot Springs, SD Maudlin OSB, Rev. Stanislaus 2003, G, North Vernon, IN McDermott, William 2000, AE, Huron, SD McFarland, Anne Rieck 2018, P, Sioux Falls, SD McGovern, George 1994, G, Mitchell, SD McKay Thompson, Ann 2015, G, Sioux Falls, SD McKee, Vern 2004, S, Huron, SD McKellips, Roger 2003, G, Alcestor, SD McKie, Norm 2011, P, Watertown, SD McKinstry, Theresa 1983, G, Bison, SD McKusick, Marshall 1979, P, Vermillion, SD McLaughlin, James 1978, G, Ontario, Canada McMillin, Dr. J. Michael 1997, P, Minneapolis, MN McNeil, Ida 1978, AE, Pierre, SD McVay, Chester 2005, P, Yankton, SD Meier, Johanna 2006, AE, Spearfish, SD Meier, Josef 1989, AE, Spearfish, SD Mellette, Arthur 1984, G, Henry County, IN Mendel, Joe (Smokey) 1978, S, Onida, SD Messer, Rev. Dr. Donald 2008, G, Kimball, SD Meyer, Don 2012, S, Wayne, NE Meyer, Elizabeth 2016, P, Alexandria, SD Micheaux, Oscar 2001, AE, Metropolis, IL Mickelson, George S. 2002, G, Selby, SD Mickelson, George T. 1987, G, Selby, SD Miller, Floyd 2002, P, Saginaw, MI Miller, Helen 2000, G, Verdon, SD Mills, Billy 1980, S, Pine Ridge, SD Milton, Dr. John 1993, AE, Vermillion, SD Mitchell, Clyde 1982, G, Minnesela, SD Mitchell, Floyd 1982, S, Highmore, SD Moisan, John 1995, AE, Watertown, SD Montgomery, Harriet 2005, AE, Brookings, SD Montileaux, Donald 2014, AE, Pine Ridge, SD Moody, Perry 1981, G, Ardmore, SD Moore, Archie 1996, G, McIntosh, SD Moore, Charles (Buck) 1989, P, Harlowtown, MT Moore, Dr. Raymond 2003, G, Britton, SD Moran, Denny 1978, G, Charlestown, SC Morris, Ralph 1995, P, Carthage, SD Morrison, Ernest 1992, G, Sioux Falls, SD Mortimer, George 1993, G, Belle Fourche, SD Moses, Gen. Lloyd 1978, G, Fairfax, SD Mudge, Robert 2015, P, Rapid City, SD Muenster, Ted 2009, G, Vermillion, SD Mundt, Karl 1978, G, Madison, SD Murphey, Maurice 1995, P, Presho, SD Musick, Roger 2018, P, Mitchell, SD Mutch, Milton 2014, P, Minneapolis, MN Muth, Dick 2014, P, Mitchell, SD Myers, Mary Lynn 2012, P, Sioux Falls, SD Myers, Stephen 2012, P, Pierre, SD
N Narcelle, Narcisse 1990, G, Fort Pierre, SD Naslund, Francys 1984, P, Faith, SD Nelson, Alvin 1989, G, Mobridge, SD Nelson, Dr. Vernon Ronald 2008, G, Waubay, SD Nelson, Joy 2016, G, Watertown, SD
Ness, Larry 2012, P, Yankton, SD Neuharth, Al 1980, AE, Eureka, SD Newcombe, Mattie Goff 1989, G, White Owl, SD Norbeck, Peter 1978, G, Clay County, SD Nordby, Earl 1997, P, Huron, SD Nordin, Carl (Charlie) 1986, P, Stanley County, SD Norman, Edith 1997, H, Fort Pierre, SD Norman, Roy 1997, H, Fort Pierre, SD
O Oates, Bob 2005, AE, Aberdeen, SD O'Brien, Pat 1998, AE, Sioux Falls, SD O'Harra, Cleophas 1978, G, Bentley, IL Olinger, Mary 2012, P, Emery, SD Olson, Danny 2001, AE, Story City, IA Olson, Edward 1978, G, Dahlieie, Norway Olson, Jerry 2004, G, Sturgis, SD Ortman, Dr. Herbert 2002, P, Canistota, SD Otey, Louis 1996, AE, Flandreau, SD Owens, Gary 1995, AE, Plankinton, SD
P Palmer, Dr. Ralph 1997, P, Gregory, SD Panzirer, Walter 2020, P, Pierre, SD Parker, Watson 2011, H, Hill City, SD Parmley, Joseph 1981, G, Edmunds County, SD Parry, Rod 2018, P, Sioux Falls, SD Patterson, Robert 1979, G, Ft. Morgan, CO Peeke, Dr. Alonzo 1979, P, Kagoshima, Japan Penn, Robert 1998, AE, Vermillion, SD Penne, John 1982, G, Pierre, SD Perrin, Dr. David 1982, G, Yankton, SD Perry, Robert 1993, H, Aberdeen, SD Petersen, Lyndell 2019, AG, Quinn, SD Peterson, Raymond 2018, AE, Brookings, SD Peterson, William 1987, G, Lily, SD Pettigrew, Richard 1978, G, Ludlow, VT Philip, James (Scotty) 1978, G, Dallas, Scotland Pier, Leonard 1979, P, Parker, SD Piersol, Lawrence 2010, P, Spirit Mound Township, SD Pillar, Edward 1983, G, Scotland, SD Pollock, Jim 1980, AE, Pollock, SD Porter, John 2018, P, Sioux Falls, SD Pressler, Larry 2020, P, Washington, D.C. Pruitt, Troy 1991, G, Lennox, SD Putnam, Warner 1980, G, Chicago, IL Pyle, Gladys 1979, G, Huron, SD Pyle, Mamie 2020, P, Huron, SD
Q Quarnberg, Carl 1978, P, Chamberlain, SD Quinn, Dr. Robert 1999, P, Sioux Falls, SD Quinn, Henry 1994, P, Sioux Falls, SD Quintal, Arthur (Joe) 1993, S, Jefferson, SD
R Radcliffe, Ben 2003, G, Wolsey, SD Raleigh, Sister Martha 2002, G, Downs, Mullingar, Ireland Ramynke, Mildred 1987, P, Morristown, SD Randall, F. Dwain (Doc) 1982, P, Creighton, NE Ranney, Dr. Brooks 2000, P, Daytona Beach, FL Rasmussen, Odeen (Skee) 1999, G, Beresford, SD Rasmussen, Wayne 1981, S, Howard, SD Red Cloud, Chief 1978, H, Forks of the Platte
River Redden, Jack 2016, P, Rapid City, SD Redfish, Amiel 2011, P, Ponca City, OK Redlin, Terry 2001, AE, Watertown, SD Redlinger, Clark 2007, G, Watertown, SD Reese, Sheldon 1992, P, Huron, SD Regier, Carol 2009, P, Canton, SD Reichert, Duane 1991, G, Sturgis, SD Reider, Gustave 1981, G, Gregory, SD Reifel, Ben 1978, G, Parmalee, SD Rentschler, Jack 1997, P, Brazil, IN Renville, Chief Gabriel 1978, H, Big Stone Lake, SD Retzlaff, Palmer (Pete) 1978, S, Ellendale, ND Reutter, Winfred 1988, AE, White River, SD Reynolds, Dr. James 2006, P, Sioux Falls, SD Rezatto, Helen 1991, AE, Ellendale, ND Riggs, Dr. Theodore 1978, P, Pierre, SD Riggs, Stephen R. 1978, G, Steubenville, OH Riggs, Thomas L. 1978, G, Lac-qui-Parle, MN Ringsrud, Amund 1979, G, Elk Point, SD Rinker, George 1996, P, Hamilton, KS Ritz, Lawrence 1996, P, Madison, SD Robbie, Joseph 1985, S, Sisseton, SD Roberts, Clint 2008, G, Presho, SD Roberts, Donus 2011, P, Kimball, SD Robinson, Jonah (Doane) 1978, G, Sparta, WI Robinson, Will 1979, G, Pierre, SD Rowe, Murray 2006, G, Canton, SD Russell, Bill 2016, AE, Spearfish, SD Ryan, Dr. Robert 2005, H, Promise, SD Rypkema, Milo 1996, P, Rapid City, SD
S Salem, Rev. Dr. Harold 2000, G, Aberdeen, SD Salway, Orville Sr. "Paha Ska" 2007, H, Pine Ridge, SD Samp, Ardyce 1997, AE, Wentworth, SD Sandal, Mildred 1988, G, Moenville, SD Sander, Dr. Duane 2015, G, Brookings, SD Sanford, T. Denny 2007, P, Sioux Fall, SD Satnam, Clarence 1979, G, Sioux Falls, SD Saul, John 1986, H, Fort Thompson, SD Saunders, Brig. Gen. La Verne 2002, G, Aberdeen, SD Schaaf, Pat 1983, AE, Miller, SD Schell, Herbert 1983, AE, Bernville, PA Schell, Herbert 1978, G, Bernville, PA Scherschligt, Jeff 2017, P, Sioux Falls, SD Schleusener, Dr. Richard 2000, G, Oxford, NE Schmitt, Mother Jerome 2009, G, Yankton, SD Schock, Al 1990, P, Long Lake, SD Schock, Oswald 1990, P, Long Lake, SD Schoeneman, Alvin 2010, P, Sioux Falls, SD Schoenhard, Leland 1993, P, Chamberlain, SD Schomer, Joseph 1978, G, Fort Pierre, SD Schroeder, Lyle E. 1994, P, Pipestone, MN Schuette, William 1999, G, Madison County, IL Schuknecht, Dr. Harold 1993, P, Chancellor, SD Schultz, Calvin 1998, AE, Mitchell, SD Schultz, Dr. Theodore 1995, P, Arlington, SD Schweitzer, Arlette 1996, G, Lemmon, SD Scull, James L. 2019, P, Rapid City, SD Scurr, Kenneth 1978, G, Creston, IA Sebert, Louis 1996, P, Java, SD Seppala, Lynn 2011, P, Castlewood, SD Shanard, George 1999, P, Bridgewater, SD Sheppard, Verne 1990, AE, Waupaca, WI Sherman, Rev. Jeanie 1981, G, Cambridge, MA Sherwood, Aubrey 1983, AE, DeSmet, SD Shoener, Jerry 2013, G, Rapid City, SD
Short, Ralph 1978, G, Meade County, SD Shortbull, Thomas 2017, P, Igloo, SD Shoun, William 1979, G, Ottumwa, SD Shunk, Harold 1985, G, Rapid City, SD Sitting Bull 1978, H, Bullhead, SD Skutt, Vestor 1987, P, Sturgis, SD Slagle, Robert 1979, G, Hanover, PA Smith, Capt. Donald 2004, G, Belle Fourche, SD Smith, Rex 1987, AE, Bend, SD Sneve, Virginia Driving Hawk 1984, AE, Rosebud, SD Soderholm, Jon C. 2009, P, Sioux Falls, SD Soukup, Benjamin 1999, G, Sioux Falls, SD Soukup, Carl 2007, P, Sioux Falls, SD Soukup, Marietta 2007, P, Sioux Falls, SD Spafford, Dr. Fredrick 1994, P, Black River, VT Sparks, Earl 1986, G, Veneta, OK Spaulding, Theodore 2003, G, Sherwood, ND Speece, Winifred 1995, AE, Marshalltown, IA Spiry, Dr. Arthur 1992, P, Mobridge, SD Spitznagel, Harold 2006, P, Sioux Falls, SD Spotted Tail, Sinte Galeska 1978, H, Unknown Stanage, John 1978, P, County Cavan, Ireland Stavig, Dr. Lawrence 1978, G, Sisseton, SD Steele, Noah 1979, G, Idaville, IN Steuerwald, Kay L. 1985, P, Kennebec, SD Stone, Thomas 2010, P, Wagner, SD Strandell, Alfred 1983, G, Pedro, SD Struck By The Ree 1978, H, Yankton, SD Sutton, Billie 1995, G, Bonesteel, SD Sutton, James Sr. 1981, G, Onida, SD Sutton, John (Matt) 1999, G, Agar, SD Sutton, John E. 1991, G, Agar, SD Sutton, Mildred 1993, G, Agar, SD Swan, William (Puts On His Shoes) 1984, H, Powder River, MT Swisher, Clark 1978, S, Vermillion, SD
T Tallent, Annie 1978, G, York, NY Taylor, Walter 1978, G, Bonesteel, SD Termes, Richard 2014, AE, San Diego, CA Terry, Rex 1978, P, Fort Pierre, SD Thode, Earl 1982, P, Belvidere, SD Thode, Ernst 1978, G, Carbon, WY Thompson, Carveth 2012, P, Faith, SD Thompson, Dr. Vance 2003, P, Gregory, SD Thomsen, Gordon 2000, P, Spencer, IA Thorne, Joseph 1978, G, LaRue, OH Thrall, Dr. William 1981, G, Kewanee, IL Tibbs, Casey 1978, G, Fort Pierre, SD Tidball, Watson 1978, G, Barton County, MO Tierney, Paul 1981, G, Hermosa, SD Tracy, Dr. Gerald 2001, P, Watertown, SD Travis, Stephen 1985, AE, Brazil, IN Trimble, Charles 2013, H, Wanblee, SD Tschetter, Dr. Loren 2015, P, Sioux Falls, SD Tullis, Lucy 1985, P, Inglewood, CO Two Bulls, Edward 1985, AE, Hermosa, SD Tyler, Jr. A.B. (Bud) 1991, S, Pierre, SD
U Unzicker, Dr. F. Wayne 2002, G, Mitchell, SD
V Van Brocklin, Norman 1991, S, Walnut Creek, CA Van Demark, Dr. Robert 1980, P, Alexandria, SD Van Genderen, Adeline 1997, AE, Plankinton, SD Vanderboom, Ilo 2006, G, Platte, SD
Venegas, Hildreth Twostars 1999, H, Sisseton, SD Verschoor, John 2001, P, Hospers, IA Vidal, Eugene 1978, S, Madison, SD Vinatieri, Felix 1981, AE, Yankton, SD Vogel, Fr. John 1985, G, Eagle Butte, SD Vucurevich, John 1999, P, Lead, SD
W Wagner, Dr. Robert 1998, G, Sioux Falls, SD Waldron, Jane 1984, G, Fort Pierre, SD Waldron, John 1985, G, Rapid City, SD Waln, Joseph L. 1992, H, Parmelee, SD Walseth, Jr. Russel (Sox) 1978, S, Pierre, SD Walseth, Russel (Bus) 1978, S, Clear Lake, SD Walsh, Tom 2009, G, Sioux Falls, SD Walsh, William 2007, H, Deadwood, SD Ward, Joseph 1978, G, Yankton, SD Warne, Leland 1988, G, Custer, SD Way, Kenneth 1999, AE, Watertown, SD Weeks, Ila 1978, G, Scotia, NE Wegner, Dr. Karl 1988, P, Pierre, SD Weisel, Elbert 1982, G, Clear Lake, SD Welk, Lawrence 1978, AE, Strasburg, ND Wheeler, Robert 1995, P, Lemmon, SD Whirlwind Horse, William 1979, G, Allen, SD White Eagle 1993, AE, Mission, SD Who All Look At, Eagle Woman 2010, H, Unknown Wilder, Laura Ingalls 1978, AE, Pepin, WI Willhite, Nellie 1978, G, Box Elder, SD Williams, Leonard (Bud) 1993, G, Mitchell, SD Williams, Richard 1979, G, Sturgis, SD Williamson, Brigadier General (Ret) Myrna 2012, G, Gregory, SD Williamson, Rev. John P. 1978, G, Greenwood, SD Williamson, Warren 1990, S, Hurley, SD Wilson, William 2005, G, Broadland Township, SD Wold, Rev. Hans 1978, G, Witten, SD Wolff, Otto 1978, G, Parker, SD Wollman, Harvey 2017, P, Doland, SD Wollman, Judge Roger L. 2002, P, Frankfort, SD Wood, Howard 2010, S, Sioux Falls, SD Woods, Melvin 1987, P, Mobridge, SD Woster, Jim 2001, G, Chamberlain, SD Woster, Terry 2014, AE, Reliance, SD Wrage, Leon 2015, AG, Brookings, SD Wright, Anna 1980, G, Fruitdale, SD Wright, Dr. Paul 1995, P, Vale, SD Wynde, Yvonne 2004, H, Springfield, SD
Y Yeager, Anson, Sr. 1998, AE, Salt Lake City, UT Young Man Afraid of His Horse 1978, H, Pine Ridge, SD Young, Durand 2000, G, Fort Pierre, SD Younger, John 1996, G, Madison, SD Youngworth, Carl 1978, S, Tyndall, SD
Z Ziegler, Alfred 1981, H, Lower Brule, SD Ziemann, Flora 1985, H, Fort Pierre, SD Ziemann, Winifred 1983, G, Midland, SD Zietlow, J. L. 1978, P, Aberdeen, SD Ziolkowski, Korczak 1988, AE, Boston, MA Ziolkowski, Ruth 1988, AE, West Hartford, CT
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Jim Abbott, Dennis & Gail Baldwin, Jeff Baylor, David & Sherry Bordewyk, Jim & Sharon Burdick, Breakfast & Business Partners Club, Tom Curley & Marsha Stanley, Charlie Day, Charlie Dean, Bob & Connie Duffett, Warren Eddy, Orin & Linda Ellwein, Douglas R. Fadel, John & Jan Fitts, Arnie & Lynne Garson, Ron & Christy Green, Christine Hamilton, Jean Healy, Margaret Holt, Matt & Beth Jensen, Jan Kimball, Ruth Krystopolski, Michelle & Paul Lavallee, Jack & Betty Marsh, Ted Muenster, Charles & Andrea Overby, Timothy & Miriam Riker, Joseph A. Rochford, Bob & Patricia Schieffer, Loren & Jean Tschetter, Jim & Debby Waddell, Ron Walters, J. Scott Wendt III, Connie Wilder
Prema Abraham, Dana & LaDawn Dykhouse, Frank Farrar, Mary Kay & Mark Fausch, Christine & Eddie Hamilton, Jan & Dave Johnson, Steve Kirby, Dennis Knutson, Scott Lawrence, Michelle Lavallee, Mary Mastick, Jon & Cate Sommervold, Allison Suttle, Jack & Linda Stengel, Loren & Jean Tschetter, Tom Wadsworth
Friends of Larry Pressler
South Dakota Community Foundation
Friends of Mike Cartney
Milt & Chris Carter, Jan DeBerg, Lake Area Technical College, Clark & Gerry Likness, Joy Nelson, Watertown Development Company
Friends of Delta David Gier
Jim Abbott, Scott & Staci Stern, KOTA/KEVN/KSFY/KDLT, NewsCenter1, NexStar
University of South Dakota
Kevin Schieffer
HONOR
CELEBRATION Air Force Academy's Association of Graduates Avera
Dakota State University
Black Hills Area Community Foundation
Eide Bailly
Black Hills State University
Monument Health
First Dakota Bank
Northern State University
First Premier Bank & Premier Bankcard
South Dakota Mines
Friends of Bernie Hunhoff
Daktronics
Carmen Schramm, South Dakota Magazine, Micah & Tabitha Likness, Sister Maribeth Wentzlaff
Family & Friends of Bruce Long Fox
Dream Design
CONTRIBUTOR Augustana University ELO CPAs & Advisors First Fidelity Simpsons Printing Rapid City
Leadership South Dakota South Dakota Public Broadcasting Venture Communications
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THANK YOU TO OUR EVENT SPONSORS!
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DONOR GIVING and STEWARDSHIP CHAMPIONING A CULTURE OF EXCELLENCE The long-term success of the South Dakota Hall of Fame depends on donors and advocates who participate with their generosity and commitment for giving. The inductees have given their time, talent and resources to immeasurably influence South Dakota. As a state, we owe it to them to highlight their contributions and build on their legacy. The SD Hall of Fame staff and board want to help you understand ways of giving that extend beyond cash donations. There are many options and a wide scope of possibilities that empower you to consider long-term stewardship to the Hall of Fame. With a lifetime of giving, you can support and invest in championing a culture of excellence in South Dakota. AUTOMATIC CONTRIBUTIONS Make an automatic monthly contribution to the SD Hall of Fame. Gifts are accepted by credit card, automatic bank transfer, by mail, by phone, or online at sdhalloffame.org sdexcellence.org.
contribution to your community without compromising your current financial situation. CHARITABLE GIFT ANNUITY, REMAINDER TRUST If you have an individual pension plan, IRA, or retirement plan, consider stipulating in your will that those funds will go to the SD Hall of Fame. A gift annuity or remainder trust provides a fixed, guaranteed cash flow and substantial tax benefits. At the same time, it makes a substantial contribution to the SD Hall of Fame’s future. REMAINDER INTEREST FOLLOWING LIFE ESTATE If you have real property that you want to donate to the SD Hall of Fame, but want to retain the right to continue living in the property, this plan will work for you. You can receive a charitable income tax deduction for the present value of your equity, and avoid potential capital gains taxes from the property’s continued appreciation. AN ENDOWMENT FOR ONGOING SUPPORT
TRANSFERS OF APPRECIATED PROPERTY Take advantage of the tax benefits that come your way when you give securities, real estate, vehicles or other property. Proceeds from the sale of these assets will benefit the SD Hall of Fame for years to come.
A strong Endowment Fund at the Hall of Fame will ensure a flourishing future. Interest and earnings from the endowment can supplement income for programming. The Endowment Fund, established in 1991, is managed by the South Dakota Community Foundation.
BEQUESTS
GIFT OF LIFE INSURANCE
Consider leaving a legacy to the SD Hall of Fame in your will. Bequests help your heirs by providing estate tax savings. You can enjoy the knowledge that you have made a
You can designate the SD Hall of Fame as the beneficiary of a life insurance policy. Tax benefits vary depending on policy terms.
Be a part of the Endowment Team! GIVE SOUTH DAKOTA YOUTH THE TOOLS TO MAKE THEIR DREAMS HAPPEN!
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ENDOWMENT CAMPAIGN
PLEASE JOIN US
MAKING A GIFT TO THE ENDOWMENT FUND
Join our ourSouth SouthDakota DakotaHall HallofofFame Fame Endowment Campaign! Join Endowment Campaign! Our goal close to to thethe Our goal is is $3 $4million. million.Pledges Pledgesreceived receivedare are close tipping point of $2.5 million from donations of $25,000 tipping point of $3.6 million. to $300,000!
• Give a one-time pledged overover a number of years • Give a one-time giftgift or gifts pledged a number of years • Ask that contributions be directed to the Fund in the • Ask that contributions be directed to the Fund in the name name of a deceased loved one in lieu of flowers of a deceased loved one in lieu of flowers • Designate that a memorial gift in honor of others be • Designate memorial gift in honor of others be placed placed inthat the aFund in the Fund • Include a bequest to the Fund in you will • Include a bequest to the in your will • Designate the Fund asFund a beneficiary in a life insurance policy
PLEASE JOIN US
MAKING A GIFT TO THE ENDOWMENT FUND
Today, SDHOF SDHoF employees employeesfocus focusthe themajority majorityofof their time Today, their time on raising dollars annually versus marketing the successes on raising dollars annually versus the successes of theofHall theFame Hall of Fame Inductees or promoting ourprograms. other programs. of Inductees or promoting our other By By achieving the Endowment Campaign goal, we will put the achieving the Endowment Campaign goal, we will put the priorities where they should be. priorities where they should be.
• Designate the Fund as a beneficiary in a life insurance policy
THANK DONORS THANKYOU YOU TO OUR ENDOWMENT ENDOWMENT DONORS Sanford Health Frank Farrar
Frank Farrar
Denny T. Sanford T. Denny Sanford Miles & Lisa Beacom Sanford Health
Avera Health
350,000
$300,000
325,000
300,000 $300,000 250,000
$200,000
125,000
First PREMIER Bank Miles & Lisa Beacom & PREMIER Bankcard
125,000 $175,000
SD&Community Rod Glenna Fouberg
$115,000 125,000
Foundation
Dan & Arlene Kirby SD Community Steve & Julie Vanderboom Nonprofit Savings
125,000 $100,000 125,000
Tony Bour Account
Jan & Dave Johnson Steve & Julie
Jeff Scherschligt Vanderboom
100,000 75,000
$100,000
75,000
(in Honor of Ilo Adee Richard & Alice
50,000
Vanderboom)
Dana & LaDawn Dykhouse Avera& Health Richard Nancy Gowen
Christine & Eddie Hamilton Tony & Lorraine Bour
50,000 $100,000 50,000
50,000
$100,000
Al & Irene Kurtenbach First PREMIER Bank
50,000 $100,000
SD Community 20,000 Mary OlingerNonprofit Savings$25,000
Craig &&Pat LloydFouberg Rod Glenna
50,000 $100,000
BankWest
& PREMIER Bankcard John & Linda Lillibridge
50,000
15,000
50,000
Stanford Linda Clark Adelstein $20,000 10,000 Milton&Mutch
50,000
Dave Geisler
Jeff Scherschligt
$60,000
Anonymous
Jan & Dave Johnson
$60,000 30,000
& LaDawn RodDana Bowar Dykhouse
$44,000 25,000
Greta & Harry Chapman
25,000
Irene Kurtenbach KarlAl&&Eileen Fischer
$42,000 25,000
MiltRichard Mutch& Alice Adee JoyJohn Nelson Lillibridge & Linda Mary Olinger
20,000
$20,000
50,000
$100,000
Dave & Kay Olson
Karl & Eileen Fischer
Clement LynnDale Seppala
Norm Kirby DanMcKie & Arlene
Dick & Darlene Muth
Kari Shanard-Koenders
$20,000 15,000
10,000
Lyle Schroeder
$20,000
Loren & Jean Marci & John Burdick Tschetter
$20,000
Pete Hegg
Marilyn Hohm Hoyt
10,000 5,000 5,000
Joy Nelson
$20,000
25,000 $40,000
Dave & Kay Olson
$14,000
25,000 $40,000
BankWest
$12,000
25,000
Jerry Thomsen
5,000
$8,000
$40,000
Stanford Adelstein & Lynda Clark Adelstein
Norm & Eunabel McKie Loren & Jean Tschetter
$40,000 25,000
Rob & Deb Mudge
$8,000
Dale Clement Richard & Nancy Gowen
20,000 $30,000
Marilyn Holm Hoyt
$4,000
Christine & Eddie Hamilton
$40,000
Lyle Schroder
Dick & Darlene Muth
Bob & Carol Riter
25,000 25,000
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Dignity THE MAKING & MEANING OF
SAVE THE DATE Class of 2021 Honors Ceremony May 20 & 21, 2022
PERMANENT COLLECTION
The mission of the South Dakota Hall of Fame is to Champion a Culture of Excellence in South Dakota. The Hall of Fame provides the recognition of individuals, groups, and organizations who Champion the Culture of Excellence through the election of inductees and the provision of an archive of the history of the culture of excellence in South Dakota.
SOUTH DAKOTA HALL OF FAME VISITOR & EDUCATION CENTER Learn about the Making and Meaning of Dignity | See the cast of Dignity’s face
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Interact with pieces of the Star Quilt | Watch a behind the scenes video
AS THE STORY OF DIGNITY EVOLVES, WE WILL CONTINUE TO TELL HER STORY WITH THIS HANDS-ON PERMANENT EXHIBIT.
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