2017 Spring/Summer Newsletter

Championing Excellence South Dakota Hall of Fame Newsletter

2017 Board of Directors Dick Gowen, Chair Rapid City, SD

Miles Beacom, Vice Chair Sioux Falls, SD

Sarah Richardson Larson, Secretary Sioux Falls, SD

Gailen Meyerink, Treasurer Chamberlain, SD

Dave Olson, Director Emeritus Sioux Falls, SD

Don Barnett Littleton, CO

Randy Houdek Highmore, SD

Jan Johnson Watertown, SD

Michelle LaVallee Sioux Falls, SD

Mary Olinger Sioux Falls, SD

Judy Olson Duhamel Rapid City, SD

Bob Riter Pierre, SD

Duane Sander Brookings, SD

Kari Shanard- Koenders Sioux Falls, SD

Loren Tschetter Sioux Falls, SD

Brg. Gen. Myrna Williamson (USA, Ret.) Sioux Falls, SD

Greta Chapman, CEO/President Rapid City, SD

Lori Platzer, Office Manager Chamberlain, SD

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Save the Date: 2017 Honors Ceremony September 8 and 9 The Board of Directors invites you to attend the 2017 Honors Ceremony of the South Dakota Hall of Fame. We will honor the ten members of the 2017 class, this year’s representatives of the culture of excellence in South Dakota.

Inductees for the 2017 class are James W. Abbott of Vermillion, Andrew W. Bogue of Rapid City, Jeff Broin of Dell Rapids, Ernest G. Carlsen of Sioux Falls, Niels Hansen of Brookings, Stephanie Herseth Sandlin of Sioux Falls, Kelby Krabbenhoft of Sioux Falls, Jeff Scherschligt of Sioux Falls, Thomas Shortbull of Rapid City, and Governor Harvey Wollman of Frankfort.

Please make plans to join us on Friday, September 8th, and Saturday, September 9th, at the South Dakota Hall of Fame and the Cedar Shore Resort in Chamberlain-Oacoma.

For tickets, visit sdexcellence.org, contact sdhallinfo@gmail.com or call 605.234.4216.

South Dakota National History Day 2017 The South Dakota Hall of Fame seeks to not only honor and highlight, but preserve the stories of everyday people that strove to make their world a better place. We are committed to telling their stories, showcasing that even in the humblest of places, greatness can thrive.

The South Dakota Hall of Fame is the state’s only resource that catalogues stories of over 700 brave and extraordinary stories of South Dakotans over the course of 100 years. The Legacy of Achievement program at the SDHoF is 100% free, thanks to the generous support of our many supporters and is being used by High School students accross the state for this year’s National History Day. .

TAKING A STAND IN HISTORY

To take a stand, one must take a firm position on an issue.

Historically, people have taken a stand in support of an issue, such as the demonstrators in Tiananmen Square protesting for greater freedom in China. Taking a stand could even involve fighting against a powerful movement, such as Queen Liliuokalani’s fight of Hawaiian annexation. It is by these examples that we learn today, how to take a stand in our own histories.

Explore over 700 biographies of great South Dakotans, all available for free!

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SD Hall of Fame Current Donors Thank you to all our donors. The Hall’s budget of $350,000 is supported through these generous donations.

Lifetime Donors

2016 Donors

$300,000 and above

Endowment Donors

T. Denny Sanford

Miles & Lisa Beacom Dana & LaDawn Dykhouse Frank Farrar Dr. Richard & Nancy Gowen Al & Irene Kurtenbach Dan & Arlene Kirby Dave & Kay Olson T. Denny Sanford Jeffry Scherschligt

$250,000 – $299,999 Richard & Agnes Ekstrum

$200,000 – $249,999 Dana & LaDawn Dykhouse Frank Farrar Earl Nordby

$150,000 – $199,999 Miles & Lisa Beacom Larry Ritz

$100,000 – $149,999 Al & Irene Kurtenbach

$75,000 – $99,999 Dr. Richard & Nancy Gowen Dave & Kay Olson Al Schoeneman

$50,000 – $74,999 Avera Health System Barger Memorial Foundation, Inc. City Of Chamberlain Rich & Sharon Cutler First Premier Bank Henry Carlson Company Dan & Arlene Kirby Murray & Helen Rowe South Dakota Community Foundation

$25,000 – $49,999 Richard & Alice Adee Frank & Marilyn Alvine Gerry Berger-Law The Blackstone Charitable Foundation Henry Jr. & Eleanor Carlson Max Gonzenbach Curley Haisch Bill & Carolyn Hinks Glenn & Phyllis Jorgenson John & Linda Lillibridge Tom & Dr. Cynthia J. Lillibridge Harold Lucas Carl McNair Dick & Darlene Muth Mary Olinger Jack & Joyce Rentschler Bob & Carolyn Riter Duane Sander Sanford Health Systems Kari Shanard Koenders Carl & Marietta Soukup Matt & Helen Sutton Brig. Gen. Myrna Williamson (USA Ret.) Ada May Yeager

$10,000 – $24,999 Dana & LaDawn Dykhouse Dr. Richard & Nancy Gowen Christiansen Land & Cattle, Ltd. Dick & Darlene Muth Earl Nordby Dave & Kay Olson Steve & Julie Vanderboom in memory of Ilo Vanderboom

$2,500 – $9,999 Richard & Alice Adee Frank & Marilyn Alvine Avera McKennen Hospital BankWest John & Ann Barlow Don Barnett Brookings Health System Harry & Greta Chapman CorTrust Bank Dacotah Bank First Fidelity Bank Bill & Carolyn Hinks Kari Shanard Koenders Milton Mutch Joy Nelson Mary Olinger Regional Health Center Reliabank Dakota Jack & Joyce Rentschler Bob & Carolyn Riter Larry Ritz Sanford Health Public Affairs Al Schoeneman Gus & Deborah Smedstad Dr. Vance & Jana Thompson Loren & Jean Tschetter Brig. Gen. Myrna Williamson (USA Ret.)

Margaret Cash-Wegner Centrec Consulting Group, LLC Dale & Barbara Clement Gary & Kathy Conradi Fred & Luella Cozad Dakota Packing Dakota Plains Agency Thomas Daschle Tim Dougherty & Karen Schreier Bill Duhamel & Judy Olson Duhamel Georgia Feist Doug & Margaret Fuerstenau Peter & Marilyn Hegg Randy Houdek Harvey & Cynthia Jewett Glenn & Phyllis Jorgenson Dennis Knutson Lloyd Companies Carl McNair Rick & Valerie Melmer Gailen & Denise Meyerink Sarah Richardson-Larson Duane Sander Lyle & Betty Schroeder Louis A. & Carol Sebert Lynn Seppala Tom & Elaine Stone Ann McKay Thompson Western Governors University Wheat Growers Leon & Joyce Wrage

$500 – $999 Jerome & Yvonne Bentz Davenport, Evans, Hurwitz & Smith Tom & Kathy Dean Dave & L.J. Geisler Dr. Jim Hansen Elaine Hartman-Hayes Jim & Katie Hood Richard & Joanie Holm Bernita Loucks Charlene Lund Bonnie Mattick Don & Elizabeth Meyer Steve & Mary Lynn Myers Gary & Paula Nelson Platte Food Center Raven Industries, Inc Carol Regier Donus & Lovila Roberts Scheels Thomas & Kathrine Schnabel Schoenhard Community Foundation South Dakota Soybean SDSU College of Nursing State Bank of Alcester USD Foundation Dean & Shirley Van Peursem Cliff & Donna Visscher Bill Walsh & Jo Roebuck Pearson Winner Food Center

If you find a discrepancy in this donor list, please accept our apologies and contact us at sdhallinfo@gmail.com

Endowment Co-Chair Miles Beacom Setting Up Excellence

$1,000 – $2,499 Stan & Lynda Adelstein Affiliated Foods Black Hills State University Karen Boulineaux Brule County Treasurer Robert & Donna Burns

Miles Beacom assists Inductee Dale Lamphere and Assistant Sculptor Andy Roltgen in setting up new pillars for the entrance into Lamphere Studios, Sturgis, SD

Igniting Excellence for over 40 years

Exhibits Now Showing Muth Electric: a South Dakota institution Muth Electric is celebrating 45 years of business, and from its first day of operation, Muth Electric has been growing and changing. Formed in 1970 by Dick and Darlene Muth, it has grown from a two-employee company, to one with over 350 employees in ten locations across South Dakota, Omaha, NE, and Williston, ND. Muth Electric’s gross sales have reached 79 million dollars.

Muth Electric’s scope of work since 1970 has evolved into large commercial and industrial work including hospitals, water and waste treatment facilities, airport runway lighting, roadway lighting, motel complexes, industrial plants, military facilities, schools, medical clinics, office buildings, and major retail stores. Muth Electric has been involved in design/build teams for customers in all types of work.

Banking in South Dakota Money makes the world go round, and it is as true for South Dakota as anywhere. It was George Hearst and his partners kicked off banking with a bang in South Dakota by investing a million dollars into mining in the Black Hills.

South Dakota drew investors from all over the world as homesteaders filed their claims on towns throughout the prairie. Each little town had a bank and some had two or three.

According to gross domestic product standards, finance is the number one industry in South Dakota, accounting for more than 15% of our economy. South Dakota is also home to the Center for Protection of Financial Infrastructure, lending support to the entire financial services industry. South Dakota ranks first in the nation, holding an impressive 18% of all bank assets accounted for by the FDIC.

Banking Excellence in South Dakota An Economic Engine

Featured Inductee Banks: BankWest CorTrust Dacotah Bank First Fidelity First National Bank Reliabank First Premier Bank

Dick and Darlene Muth

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Contributing to Excellence - Endowment Campaign 2020 Charles Trimble I have been raised to appreciate any honor I am accorded as an honor to my family, my tribe and all Native American people. And receiving an honor means giving in return as an offering of gratitude to those that honor me and my people. It’s not a pay-back or a pay-off; it’s a heartfelt thank you.

I am honored to have been inducted into the SD Hall of Fame, and want to do my share in helping advance the programs and presentations of the Hall, especially as they apply to Indian people. The Hall of Fame promotes the diversity of the State in its recognition of the citizens of different races, including those who were considered hostile to the settlement and development of the State and its entry into the union of the United States - the tribes that have suffered from the taking of their lands and sacred sites. I think the Hall of Fame does help heal the wounds and trauma of those historical injustices by recognizing historical and contemporary leaders of the tribes; and I appreciate that.

Please join us Join our South Dakota Hall of Fame Endowment campaign. Our goal is $3 million. Donors have already contributed over $1 million to match dollar for dollar. From $5,000 up to $20,000 for family or business endowments with the South Dakota Hall of Fame. Today, SDHoF employees focus the majority of their time on raising dollars annually versus marketing the successes of the Hall of Fame Inductees or promoting our other programs. By achieving the Endowment Campaign goal, we will put the priorities where they should be.

Contact us at sdhallinfo@gmail.com or 605.234.4216 if you are interested in building a lasting legacy at the Hall.

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Acts of Excellence Steven Prendergast - Spreading Awareness On Autism Steven Prendergast is a young man in Sioux Falls who works as a library assistant at the Sanford Medical Library. He also happens to have autism.

Growing up with autism, it was difficult being a child at a time when the condition was less understood than it is today. Steven often found comfort in video games, a love which he carried with him over many years.

By working at the Sanford Medical Library, Steven often encountered medical students looking for information about autism and related conditions, and he found himself providing resources and expertise about the condition. But, he wondered if there was something more he could do to spread awareness and help children who were now in the position he had been in growing up.

The Creators the of the Sculpture Dignity Two inductees of the South Dakota Hall of Fame have demonstrated they are champions of the culture of excellence in South Dakota by their extraordinary achievement to create the sculpture called Dignity. Inductee Norm McKie (2011) and his wife, Eunabel, and the McKie family, have donated $1 million to provide a statue of a Native American woman to champion the Dignity of Native American peoples. The McKie family dedicates the statue Dignity to the state of South Dakota to celebrate the 125th year of statehood.

Inductee Dale Claude Lamphere (1987), Artist Laureate of South Dakota, created the magnificent sculpture Dignity to be placed at the Lewis and Clark overlook in Chamberlain, South Dakota. The sculpture Dignity is constructed entirely of stainless steel and is 50 feet tall with an honor Star quilt 32 feet wide draped over her shoulder and will be visible to people traveling on Interstate 90 adjacent to the Missouri River. Dale Lamphere and his wife Jane Murphy have long and cherished relationships with Native American people. They dedicate Dignity to enhancing the relationships of all peoples by the shared appreciation of the gift of public art.

Inductee Dale Lamphere describes the sculture Dignity as: “Standing at a crossroads, Dignity echoes the interaction of earth, sky, and people. It brings to light the beauty and promise of the indigenous peoples and culture that still thrives on this land. The intent is to have the sculpture stand as an enduring symbol of our shared belief that all here are sacred and in a sacred place.”

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South Dakota Hall of Fame Timeline 1974

Established

1976

Named the Cowboy and Western Heritage Hall of Fame (October 29)

1975 1999

Quarterly magazines – Dakota West to South Dakota Heritage to South Dakota Hall of Fame

1978

The first 120 individuals were inducted during the first annual Honors Ceremony

1986

Established as the South Dakota Hall of Fame (July 25)

1992

Relocation to Chamberlain

1993

$1.5 million building campaign launched

1996

Designated as official State Hall of Fame by Legislature

2000

Grand opening of the new building during the Honors Ceremony

2004

South Dakota Hall of Fame launches Honors Ceremony Commemorative Magazine

2010

Endowment established and 30th Anniversary

2012

Legends and Learning Statewide Youth History Program Launched

2014

Mortgage paid

2015

40th Anniversary , Champions for Excellence Network & Legacy of Achievements Acts of Excellence for Everyday Excellence in South Dakota

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2017 Inductee Anniversaries — 20, 15, 10 & 5 years 1997 — Arthur Amiotte, Loren H. Amundson, Helen Bergh, Lyle Bien, Theodore Blakey,

Henry Carlson, Colman Coakley, Lucille Coffield, Adeline Van Genderen, Marvis Hogen, J. Michael McMillin, Earl Nordby, Edith Norman, Roy Norman, Ralph Palmer, Jack Rentschler, Ardyce Samp 2002 — Hubert Alewel, Elenora Anderson, Philip Anderson, L. Frank Baum, James

Dunn, Lorraine Flaws, J. Howard Kramer, Lowell Louis Lillibridge, George S. Mickelson, Floyd Miller, Herbert Ortman, Martha Raleigh, Gen. La Verne Saunders, F. Wayne Unzicker, Roger L. Wollman 2007 — George Anderson, Dwayne Beck, Charles “Eddie” Clay,

Richard Cutler, James Michael Doyle, Carole Hillard, Sherwin Linton, Clark Redlinger, Orville Sr. Ska “Paha” Salway, T. Denny Sanford, Carl Soukup, Marietta Soukup, William Walsh

2017 Anniversary Reunion

2012 — James Abourezk, Dr. Richard Gowen, Gene Lebrun, Don

9/9, Honors Ceremony

Meyer, Mary Lynn Myers, Stephen Myers, Larry Ness, Mary Olinger, Carveth Thompson, Brigadier General (Ret) Myrna Williamson

Books by and about Inductees Frederick Manfred (1985) The Golden Bowl - 50th Anniversary Edition by Frederick Manfred (1994). Frederick Manfred’s first novel, The Golden Bowl, remains among the best of his more than 30 books. This Golden Annviersary edition returns a powerful first book to public attention and honors the life’s work of an important American writer whose creative output continues undiminished today.

Richard P. Holm (2016) - The Picture of Health - A View From The Prairie by Richard P. Holm (2008). Beautifully written medical essays with practical advice combined with evocative photographs make this book a winner for patients and physicians!

Bob Oates (2005) - Football in America: Game of the Century

by Bob Oates (1999). This is a masterful piece of work, and its publication offers us a comprehensive story of the evolution of our great game.

Ida Mallett (1996) - A Saga of Ida Mallett “IDIE” by Raymond G. Scott (2000). Ida Mallett, a true Pioneer, lived only for service to others. She was so interested in listening and serving others.

She was always so very hospitable and affected so many local lives. She was more than a person - she was an institution.

Herbert Ortman (2002) - A Touching Story by Dr. Ervin Ortman (2000). The portrayal of a man with a gifted talent, who combined his boundless enthusiasm with his compassion for people to perform a phenomenal feat likely never duplicated.

Donus Roberts (2011) - From The Beginning: The Tradition of Watertown Public Speaking Activities

by Donus Roberts (1978).

Donus Roberts hopes that his research will shed some additional light on the development of speech activities in South Dakota and update some of the existing information that future writers can use for reference.

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Inductee updates Jerry Lohr (1999) - Wine Enthusiast Magazine today announced that it will be honoring industry visionary and Central Coast wine pioneer Jerry Lohr as its “American Wine Legend” at the upcoming 17th annual Wine Star Awards. Lohr will be honored in Wine Enthusiast’s special “Best of Year” issue, and at a black-tie gala in Miami on Monday, January 30, 2017.

While the Wine Star Awards ceremony is an annual event, the American Wine Legend honor has only been awarded three times since 2000. As the founder of J. Lohr Vineyards & Wines, Lohr is widely recognized for helping to bring the wines of Paso Robles and Monterey County to global prominence. A past chair of Wine Institute and the founder of several leading trade and research organizations, he is also a tireless wine industry advocate who has played an integral role in advancing the American wine industry. In recognition of his accomplishments, Lohr is being honored by Wine Enthusiast for his “energy, courage, groundbreaking vision and business acumen,” and his “invaluable contributions to the industry.”

Greg Latza (2010) - Greg Latza, a freelance photographer based in Sioux Falls, says Instagram has him slowing down, getting out of the car and looking for photos to post to his feed.

“It looked like a way I could spice up a road trip,” Latza explained about when he first started using Instagram. Latza said Instagram was a fun way of challenging himself to find different types of photos outside of shooting for his corporate clients. “It’s a way to vary up what I’m doing,” Latza said. “It’s a fun outlet,” he said.

Jon Soderholm (2009) - As he prepared to leave his role as CEO at Avera Heart Hospital at the end of 2016, Soderholm wasn’t keen on talking legacies. That’s something for people who no longer are around, he says.

But in a health care career that spans more than half a century, his accomplishments indelibly have shaped the medical landscape in the Sioux Falls region.

Born in Minneapolis in the World War II era, Soderholm’s military service as a medic drew him to health care. He began his career in 1966 as an assistant administrator at what was then Sioux Valley Hospital. He spent 31 years at “The Valley,” as he calls it, eventually becoming chief operating officer. He left in 1999 to help start Avera Heart Hospital.

Avera Heart Hospital has 540 employees and treated 4,376 inpatients last year. More than 91 percent of patients surveyed said they would recommend it, ranking the hospital in the top 50 nationwide. It achieved a five-star rating in quality and patient satisfaction from the federal Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services.

Celebrating 43 Years of Excellence in South Dakota, 1974–2017

For 43 years, from 1974 to 2017, the South Dakota Hall of Fame has honored Champions for Excellence from all walks of life who have contributed to the development and heritage of South Dakota.

Over 700 inductee stories illustrate the many paths to excellence. It is our honor to keep a record of the achievements and service these inductees have provided.

Find out more about our inductees by visiting the museum in Chamberlain or online at sdhalloffame.com

South Dakota Hall of Fame Visitor and Education Center 1480 S. Main Street Chamberlain, SD 57325 sdhallinfo@gmail.com 605-234-4216

Champions for Excellence in South Dakota The South Dakota Hall of Fame is privileged to have inducted over 700 individuals in recognition of their exceptional achievements.

These inductees are connected with the many others throughout South Dakota committed to be Champions for Excellence, One Act at a Time.

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