Siouxland Life Magazine - May 2013

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CONTENTS May 2013

16 THE BIG SPEECH

What advice does he impart?

36 ON THE COVER: Angelica Perez, an art major from Sioux Center, Iowa, poses with her family following the commencement ceremony at Northwestern College in Orange City, Iowa.

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FEATURES 4 HOME Location counts 10 COLLECTION Get small 12 GRADUATION The party 14 OUT AND ABOUT 16 20 QUESTIONS the speaker 19 GRADUATION Those diplomas 21 GRADUATION Teachers say goodbye 24 GRADUATION Oldest, youngest 28 GRADUATION Making plans

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GRADUATION Robes GRADUATION Prepped GRADUATION Three generations GRADUATION Traditions GRADUATION Nontraditional GRADUATION Student debt GRADUATION Residents Doc, I’ve Got a Question Parting Shot

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Diplomas make it real.

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HOME it’s all about location

Shown, is patio of Greg & Terri Herbold’s house made of concrete in Pierson, Iowa. Right: Shown, is the kitchen island inside the house made of concrete.

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PIERSON, IOWA | AFTER GREG AND Terri Herbold raised their family in a modest farmhouse, they decided to upgrade to something larger.

“We have six children, four of them are married, and 11 grandchildren,”Terri said. “We counted once and when all of them are visiting, we could have 25 people in the house. We just didn’t see our previous home as room-friendly.”

“Actually, I think it may have been our daughters-in-law who gently encouraged us to consider building a bigger house,” Greg added.

After years of living on a gravel road, the Herbolds decided their next house would be on pavement.

“We spent a couple of years researching what we wanted,” Greg said. “We looked online and in magazines to find the right design. Then, we went in search of a builder and found Rick Welte.”

Greg Herbold had a concrete, energyefficient house built on a farm. It is tornado-proof. Rick Welte was the builder.

The Herbolds had several stipulations in their design.

“I looked at a lot of house plans and

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thought about houses I had seen and the one thing I wanted for sure was the kitchen/dining area in the front of the house and living room adjacent to it and all of the bedrooms and bathrooms in the back of the house,”Terri said.

“I really wanted space and openness,” Greg said. “So, I liked the idea of the kitchen and the dining room and living room being an open area.”

The kitchen is the focal point of the home. Although laid out in a rectangular presentation, the island has three sides and sits in a half-circle.

“I had explained to Rick I needed a prep area on the island,”Terri said. “We already had a dining area, but I wanted a raised bar and extra seating at the island.”

The kitchen uses several different woods and colors as accents. The floor is hickory with smaller slats. The majority of the kitchen cabinets – with storage space a cook or baker would die for – are maple, painted white, with natural maple accents, that add a lot of brightness.

A stove top has a natural wood grain vent and lower level with a “Welcome” sign that captures what the Herbolds hope to communicate to visitors.

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Left: The island and kitchen are shown inside the home of Greg & Terri Herbold, that is built of concrete, in Pierson, Iowa. Above: The couple’s dining room.

that reflect globes that hang on slender spindles from the ceiling.

Stainless steel appliances sparkle from the recessed lighting.

Right off the kitchen is the dining room where a heavy wood

table with chairs for six sits under a half-moon chandelier. Sunlight streams in through large windows from the south.

“No curtains this time,”Terri said. “I really wanted to show off

the windows and trim and decided to go with blinds.”

The living area with a flatscreen television is large enough for the Herbolds and then some. Terri rolled a kids’

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“We have six children, four of them are married, and 11 grandchildren. We counted once and when all of them are visiting, we could have 25 people in the house. We just didn’t see our previous home as room-friendly.”

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collapsible tunnel to one side.

“The grandkids come over and love this,” she said. “We brought a lot of our own furniture into this area because it fit with the decor.”

The two bedrooms on the main level continue with a prairie decor including one bed with an oversize quilt that looks like someone from “Little House on the Prairie” created it.

For all of the traditional approaches in the home, the Herbolds had fun with the master bath.

The shower does continue with the earth tones, but a richer, darker look. It’s constructed like a light trap with two corners and could easily accommodate several people.

“I like to show it off,” Greg said.

Terri has her own “Calgon, take me away” bathtub that features air bubble technology, rather than jacuzzi and enough shelves for candles and other feminine enhancements.

“I don’t get it,” Greg confided.

“I love it,”Terri emphasized.

A nice addition to the home is an indoor patio with pergola floors and radiant floor heating, sparing bare feet from an ice cold floor.

The Herbolds chose a hydronic, or water-based, system over an electric radiant floor. The installation is more complicated for a DIY fan, but it is the most popular and cost-effective approach in which the system pumps heated water from a boiler through tubing laid in a pattern underneath the floor. The windows are positioned across the width of the house and come around the corner to the entrance. Large patio doors open to the exterior.

“It just provides more space and another area to relax,” Greg said.

Construction started on the house October 2011. The Herbolds moved from a 1,200- to a 2,300 square foot home in August 2012.

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The exterior is a prairie design with warm earth tones, siding and lots of ornamental brickwork. Of particular note are two brick and stone columns that frame the entrance to the home.

“The front door keeps with the prairie design as well,” Greg said. “I really like the beveled glass tints that catch the southern sun.”

A patio that extends the length of the indoor patio currently has an outdoor grill. On the to-do list is adding an outside patio, Terri said. Greg added there is also landscaping that would be tackled this year, put on hold after last year’s drought.

Finally, the house is a Lite Form construction, which uses heavy styrofoam wall forms filled with cement to provide an efficient system of design and building, able to withstand tornadoes.

“No, I don’t have any ‘Wizard of Oz’ fears,” Greg laughed. “But the house is built on a windy spot on a ridge. We had talked at length about a Lite Form home and one advantage is it’s tornado proof.

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COLLECTION life in miniature

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KINGSLEY, IOWA | AS FAR AS LOU Hansen knows, not too many people around here know about the Sebastians.

No, it’s not some family who lives down the street.

“Sebastians” refer to the Sebastian Miniatures collection, which Lou and her husband Larry have in their Plymouth County home.

Prescott Woodbury Baston Sr. – whose father was a miniaturist for Olmsted Brothers, the architectural firm that designed New York’s Central Park – created the first miniature in 1938 of a Shaker couple for a friend, who later ordered a thousand to distribute at her restaurant.

Buoyed by the response of that success, Baston visited Carbone, a wholesale gift distributor in Boston and showed them a line of miniature figurines. Those were introduced at the Boston Gift Show in 1939. Again, the response was so positive that Baston set up his own business designing and producing Baston Figurines.

Baston’s love of history, literature and theatrics would appear in his presidents and Williamsburg characters; his Dickens, Mark Twain and House of Seven Gables families; and his Shakespearean couples.

But it was decided that “Baston Figurines” was not an adequate title for the line. Sebastian Miniatures was chosen as the new name.

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Lou Hansen stands behind her collection of Sebastian miniatures at her home in Kingsley, Iowa.

until his death in 1984. His son, Prescott W. Baston Jr. – aka Woody – created his first piece in 1981 and continues to create pieces.

“For me, the fact that they are historical and literary makes them also educational,” Hansen said. “Later in Baston’s life, when his son took over the company,

it eventually merged with the Hudson Company. They began making some of the pieces in pewter. I have two pewter pieces.”

Hansen pointed out the pewter figurines are similar to the other miniatures.

“Baston once said his goal was to create honest portrayals and to make them appealing so people would find pleasure in them,” she said. “I do!”

Q. When did you start the collection?

A. I started my collection about 1983. I have about 70 now.

Q. What was the first piece?

A. My first piece was a gift from my fellow teachers after I had surgery. It was Songs for Cratchits, a part of the Dickens family.

Q. What’s the appeal of the Sebastian miniatures for you?

A. The Sebastians appeal to me because they are either historical or literary characters. I like the fact that they are small and don’t require a lot of space.

Q. Where do you find the miniatures?

A. Most of the miniatures we have found in antique stores or flea markets.

Only my first few were purchased in a store.

Q. What’s your favorite piece?

A. My favorite piece is John and Priscilla Alden.

Q. What do family and friends think of the collection?

A. My family has gotten into watching for and buying some of the pieces.

Q. What’s missing in this collection that you’d really like to have?

A. There are many groups of

miniatures. It would be great to have a complete set of a group. It is hard though because it is hit and miss in finding them. I think they would be more available out East.

Q. Do you collect anything else?

A. I have several P. Buckley Moss prints and plates. We also have quite a few Dept. 56 Snow Village pieces.

Q. Any thought to ever stopping the collection?

A. I don’t think I will ever stop collecting them as my family keeps finding more pieces for me. It is always a challenge to look for them. My daughter is especially interested in them, too.

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GRADUATION

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Kelsey Evans, left, Kela Cihak and Sara Reeves, all seniors at Briar Cliff University, are planning a graduation party for May 18.

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For FOUR YEARS, they’ve been classmates at Briar Cliff University as well as teammates for the Chargers women’s basketball team.

And on May 18, Kelsey Evans, Sara Reeves and Kela Cihak will also be celebrating their graduation together at a joint party for friends and family.

“In high school, graduation parties are supposed to celebrate individual achievement,” Evans, originally from Willmar, Minn., notes. “For college graduations, we just wanna have fun with the people that we love.”

It’s also a cost-saver, since all three live in the same house a few blocks from the college campus.

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“Kelsey and I have lived together for the past two years and Kela moved in at the beginning of the school year,” Reeves, a Wahoo, Neb., native, explains. “We have a lot of mutual friends and a big back yard. It just made more sense to do this together.”

In fact, the three do many things together.

In addition to basketball, they share a love of trashy reality TV shows (MTV’s “Teen Mom” and ABC’s “The Bachelor” are guilty pleasures) and cooking.

“Kelsey is a whiz at baking cupcakes and I love cooking things in a crockpot,” Cihak, a native of Avon, S.D., maintains. “The nice thing about living

together is cooking family-style meals.”

Reeves frowns for a moment.

“Actually, I’m more of an eater than a cook,” she interjects, noting that tacos are a favorite food.

Weeks away from graduation, the students are beginning to make plans for their post-college life.

Cihak, a psychology major, says she’d like to take some time off before going to grad school.

“My senior year has gone by like the blink of an eye,” she remarks. “Now, I’m counting down the days until it’s over.”

An education major, Reeves wants to someday coach a girls high school basketball team.

“I’ve been a basketball player since I was a kid,” she says. “It might be nice to be a coach for a change.”

Meanwhile, Evans wants to use her degree in mass communications to secure a position in social media.

“Since I spend a lotta time on Facebook, Twitter and Pinterest already, social media seems like a good career choice,” she suggests.

Still, the three will still miss their life in college.

“We’re going through the ‘will this be the last time?’ phase,” Cihak says, smiling. “We’ve already got through our last basketball game and last NAIA

(National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics) tournament.”

“That made us cry,” she admits.

“Soon, we’ll be experiencing our last college class and last exam together,” Reeves says. “That will probably make us cry as well.”

Regardless, they remain proud of all of their accomplishments and look forward to their joint graduation party.

From left, Kela Cihak, Sara Reeves and Kelsey Evans were roommates and teammates at Briar Cliff University.

Predicting a guest list of more than 60, Evans says she wants it to be festive and informal.

“We’re saying good bye to an important part of our lives while looking toward the future,” she says. “It will be awesome.”

Springtime Home organization tipS Spring has finally arrived, and it’s time to put away the heavy coats, boots and snow shovels of winter and bring out the short sleeves and gardening equipment.

But before you toss the tools in a garage corner or stuff the down jackets into a beat-up cardboard box and toss it in the attic, why not evaluate your needs and make your storage both effective and attractive?

The first thing you should do is make a list of everything you want to store. This list will both help you determine how much storage space you need and ensure that nothing gets lost once you start putting things away.

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Easy-to-install, heavy-duty shelving can be purchased at just about any major home supply store. Many of these units are designed so that you can leave as much room between the shelves as you like, making it easy to get larger and smaller items onto the same unit and saving you space.

Heavy winter clothing can take up lots of closet space, leaving you with little room for your entire four-season wardrobe. One solution for storing outof-season clothing is under the bed.

Under-the-bed storage containers come in a variety of sizes and styles, including ones with wheels for easy access and to protect hardwood floors from scratches when you pull them out. You can also buy simple risers that elevate your bed off the floor additional inches to create even more space.

Garage storage has also gotten much more efficient. You can get built-in storage cabinets with doors so the space looks clean and orderly. There are also modular systems that enable you to choose what features are best for your needs; including hanging racks for sports equipment, hooks for tools, and more.

Most garages have pitched roofs to keep rainwater or snow from collecting on top, and this space is ideal for items you don’t use on a daily or weekly basis.

Store them on platforms or racks that lower and raise either electronically at

the touch of a button, or with an easy-touse pulley system.

In newer or renovated homes, a mudroom or drop zone is a very popular feature. This area often has built-in benches, hooks and bins to neatly tuck away boots, jackets, gardening equipment and other items your family uses frequently. Another common feature is storage and charging stations for the modern family’s cell phones, tablets and other electronic equipment.

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The Crittenton Center hosted its second Design and Dine, in which creative individuals and/or teams decorate tables – this year – using themes from movies.

On April 11, View and Vote took place, a casual social time with free snacks, a live band, cash bar and a silent auction.

It was also an opportunity for people to vote for their favorite design.

The sit-down dinner and auction took place April 12. People who attended also voted for their favorite table. Their votes, combined with those from View and Vote determined the three People’s Choice table design winners: Sioux City Growth Organization, Wells Dairy and Studio 427.

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Above: Robert Lorello and Ryan Fraley chill at the WinnaVegas presentation of “Oceans 11” at the Crittenton Center’s fundraiser Design & Dine April 11 at Emma’s Event Center. Right: Kristin Dirks with HOM/Gabberts Design Studio & Fine Furnishings in Sioux City created this presentation of “True Grit.”

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20 QUESTIONS with a commencement speaker

“The biggest challenge is to make it new and relevant. There are a thousand commencement addresses every year.

The key, I think, is to make it relevant.�

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20 QUESTIONS Morningside College commencement speaker

Jeffrey Selingo

What’s it like to be a graduation speaker? Nick Hytrek talked to Jeffrey Selingo, editor at large for The Chronicle of Higher Education in Washington, D.C., who will speak at Morningside College graduation May 11.

1. Have you ever given a commencement address before?

“No. This is my first one.”

2. Are you nervous about it? Anxious?

“I’m excited about it.”

3. Are you finished with it?

“Yes.”

4. How long did you spend on it?

“I’ve been thinking about it over time.

It’s been evolving over a couple weeks.”

5. How do you make it memorable?

“I think there has to be one or two points. I don’t think you’re dispensing all the advice they should have learned the last four years.”

6. What message are you going to give the graduates?

“That life has many twists and turns and to follow those. You cannot manage life like you’re able to manage your college career.”

7. You’ve written a lot about higher education. Do you plan on mixing your views and findings into your address?

“Not really. I do plan on connecting what I’ve learned from my college and journalism career into the address.”

8. Do you plan on tailoring your message more toward the graduates or their parents and others in the crowd?

The key, I think, is to make it relevant.”

“No, I do not.”

10. Does the college give you any suggestions or are you free to say whatever you want?

16. Do you remember what he/ she talked about?

11. What do you think is the key to a good commencement address?

17. What’s the best commencement address you’ve ever heard?

“I’m free to say whatever I want.”

“Again, not trying to overload it with too many ideas but focus it on one or two themes.”

12. What makes for a bad commencement address?

“One that I don’t think is relevant for the students today and one that goes on too long.”

13. Do you think most graduates are paying attention or just enduring the speaker while waiting to get their diploma?

“I think they are (paying attention). If the speaker is funny and engaging, keeps it short and isn’t giving them a sermon, I think they will pay attention.”

“No. Again, I hope I can make it memorable.”

“I didn’t hear it in person, but I think one of the best was the one Steve Jobs gave at Stanford about 10 years ago.”

18. How long do you think a commencement address should be?

“I’d like to think it should be 10 minutes long.”

19. Do you get paid?

“No.”

20. If you could deliver the commencement address at any school, where would it be?

“Probably my alma mater, Ithaca College in New York.”

14. How do you plan on getting the graduates’ attention?

“I hope that there will be some humor. I have to work on that.”

15. Do you remember who spoke at your college graduation?

“Graduation day to me is about the graduates, so I’m tailoring the message to them.”

9. What’s the biggest challenge to writing a commencement address?

“The biggest challenge is to make it new and relevant. There are a thousand commencement addresses every year.

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GRADUATION

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AREA COLLEGE PRINTS ITS OWN DEGREES

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FOR THE GRADUATE, A COLLEGE degree is more than a piece of paper. It is a lasting symbol of educational achievement.

However, in essence, it is literally a piece of paper.

The word “diploma” comes from the Greek meaning “folded paper.” It is a certificate issued by an educational institution that asserts the recipient has successfully completed a certain course of study. In early academia, sheepskin was used for the diploma to indicate its value, but over the years, the cost of producing the product became ineffective cost-wise.

One of the last presenters of a sheepskin was the University of Notre Dame.

In January 2012, students received an all-paper rather than the sheepskin ones issued by the university for most of the past century. The reason the university cited was that Herff Jones, which supplied the sheepskin degrees, was getting out of that business.

Typically, schools go to vendors to have the degrees printed. Sioux City institutions of higher learning – Briar Cliff University, Morningside College and Western Iowa Tech Community College – order their diplomas and other graduation items from School Traditions of Fulton, S.D. However, on May 11, the 259 graduate

Sandy Van Kley, registrar with Northwestern College, Orange City, Iowa, is shown with a college degree. The school prints the diplomas in-house.

of Northwestern College in Orange City, Iowa, will be awarded degrees printed by the college. According to Registrar Sandy Van Kley, her office has been printing diplomas for approximately eight years.

“Each diploma has most of the

wording already imprinted, as well as the college seal,” she explained of the process. “We do a mail merge and add the student’s name, degree, such as Bachelor of Arts or Bachelor of Science in Nursing, and applicable graduation honors – Cum Laude, Magna Cum Laude or Summa Cum Laude – and the date of graduation.

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Van Kley acknowledged in-house printing the diplomas has its own challenges.

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Morningside professors, top, from left, Tom Gilbert, Larry Sensenig and John Bowitz talk with students, Stacey Stark, lower left, and Chase Shanafelt in an art gallery at Eppley Auditorium. The three are among a group of six long time professors who are retiring from the Sioux City college.

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IT WAS AT A TIME WHEN RICHARD Nixon was president, the Vietnam War was raging and college students across the country were advocating for a revolution.

The year was 1970 and Tom Gilbert was just beginning his career as a philosophy professor at Morningside College.

“The kids were saying never trust anyone over 30,” he said, smiling at the memory. “Well, I had just celebrated my 30th birthday before coming to Morningside. I figured I had a short window of time before my trustworthiness would be called into question.”

When the 2012-13 school year ends, the now 72-year-old Gilbert will be retiring after 41 years at Morningside.

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Houston, Texas, my life has been spent at Morningside,” he said. “It’s just flown by.”

Like Gilbert, Morningside College art professor John Bowitz will be retiring in May. A Milwaukee, Wis., native, Bowitz has been with the college since 1977.

“I can’t believe it’s been 36 years already,” he said, wistfully. “Where has the time gone?”

Bowitz was inspired to get into art by his blue-collar dad.

“My dad worked in a factory his entire life but he had an appreciation of art,” he remembered. “Dad was strictly a paint-by-numbers type of artist yet he loved it.”

During his tenure, Bowitz note the

campus’ new buildings as well as Morningside’s broadening mix of students.

“There were a lot more blonde-andblue-eyed students back in 1977 then there are now,” he said. “I think it’s great to see a larger global influence on art.”

When Joe Shufro initially arrived at Morningside, the music professor thought it looked like “a great big warehouse.”

“It certainly had an industrial feel to it,” he said of his impression of the campus in 1977. “It didn’t look like a school.”

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Symphony School of Music in Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada, Shufro will be retiring in May after a 36-year stint at Morningside.

Looking back at his career, Shufro said technology has dramatically changed the way classes are taught.

“Back in 1980s, I thought I was being innovative in initiating the use of computers in our music department,” he said.

“Today, you can’t do anything without technology.”

This can be good and bad for today’s students, Shufro said.

“Students have all of the information of the world at their fingertips,” he suggests, “but colleges certainly aren’t turning out a record number of ‘super students’ in the process.”

While Shufro said he always wanted to be a music teacher, Larry Sensenig wasn’t exposed to psychology until his sophomore year of college.

“I had to declare a major and thought psychology would be a good field for me,” he said.

A Morningside psychology

Joe Shufro will be retiring in May after a 36-year stint at Morningside College.

professor for 39 years, Sensenig will be retiring in May. “I came here in 1974 but it feels like it was yesterday,” he confides.

But Sensenig already has plans for his future, which includes a summer of camping and scuba diving.

Likewise, Bowitz and Shufro want to devote more time to their respective passions: art and music.

Gilbert would like to study meditation and continue to work on behalf of animal welfare through PETA. In addition, he’d like to plow through the few hundred of books that he’s been meaning to read over the years.

“Retirement doesn’t mean you have to slow down,” Gilbert explained. “It just means you’ll have time to do the things that you love.”

Looking out of his office window on a warm spring day, he reflects for a moment.

“A person never stops learning no matter his age,” Gilbert said. “For me, I happy to begin the next chapter of my life.”

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into the party scene, though one student’s party days were 20-some years earlier and the other’s were somewhat curtailed. And both Kevin Long, 42, of Sioux City, and Jordan McCubbin, 20, of Fort Dodge, will be picking up their

bachelor’s degrees this May after somewhat different paths to graduation.

They will be Morningside’s oldest and youngest four-year-degree graduates from the class of 2013.

Jordan’s the early bird. Even in

Kevin Long, left, 42, of Sioux City, and Jordan McCubbin, right, 20, of Fort Dodge, are shown inside the Mustang Grill in Olsen Student Center at Morningside College. Long and McCubbin are the oldest and youngest of the 2013 graduates, respectively.

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BOAT elementary school, he was the youngest in his class. And when he reached high school, it was easy for him to get a lot of college credits early. By the time he entered Iowa Central Community College in Fort Dodge, he had enough credits that

with some extra winter and summer classes, he was able to zip through the two-year program in one. He was just 18 when he hit the Morningside campus, with just two years needed for his psychology degree.

Kevin’s path was a little less direct.

A native of Eagle Butte, S.D., Kevin went to college back in the 1980s. “And I didn’t do so well back then. I was too young and immature, I think,” he said of those hard-partying days. “So I moved to Sioux City in ’91 and I worked in the restaurant and hospitality industry for the last 10 years, a bartender and waiter at like Chili’s, Red Lobster and Olive Garden.

And when the economy crashed, I just recently got my student loans paid off from the first round I went. So I decided to come back.”

Kevin said he finally realized how much he needed that degree, a bachelor’s in business administration, with an emphasis in human relations management.

He is hoping to get hired by a large international company and maybe get transferred overseas to do training and development. Australia sounds good, and, coincidentally, Principal Financial, with its world headquarters in Des Moines, has an office there. One of his scholarships was from Principal, a good place to work, he noted, hopefully.

“Working in the hospitality/restaurant industry, once you reach a certain age, you’re just a little too old to do it,” he said. “And when the economy crashed, I realized that people without degrees became jobless very quickly. So I chose to come back.”

He went to Western Iowa Tech Community College for two years to achieve a high GPA that would get him the scholarships he thought he needed for Morningside. WIT also eased his readjustment to college life, there being so many other adult students around, he noted.

Being a non-traditional student, he felt a little uncomfortable that first semester, but then he started meeting people and making friends “and it was just like I was a normal student with them,” he said.

Life on the Morningside campus was also a little odd for Jordan who, at 18, was the right age for a college freshman.

The thing is, he was a junior and felt a little behind his classmates. “And it’s still weird when all my friends are going out to the bars and stuff like that and I’m still here,” he said.

Jordan was able to get some track and cross country scholarship money. “But for the most part, it’s coming out of my dad’s pocket, and I’m grateful,” he said, noting that he is following in his psychologist dad’s footsteps.

Kevin picked up some scholarship money, too. He also saved enough during those food service days that he didn’t have to keep working and could focus on getting good grades to graduate with honors.

Kevin said he still feels “a little out of things” because he’s not involved in a lot of the sports and other student activities that Jordan enjoyed. But he is part of Business Honors and some other campus groups. And though he felt he was old enough to be their father, he still made 15 to 20 really good friends.

“Since Morningside is such a closeknit campus, you just get to know everybody,” he said. “It was harder than I remembered from the first time around, but it was absolutely what I expected.”

The social side of college is important, Jordan said. He partied, too, but being younger, Jordan couldn’t do as much. “All your friends are older and go out drinking, but you really can’t. So what else are you going to do? Stay home and do homework, I guess,” he said. And he did just that, most of the time.

Jordan said his accelerated education was starting to wear on him a little bit. “I mean I really haven’t had a break from obtaining credits in some form since high school. So I finally get a break (with graduation), and I’m really glad it’s coming,” he said.

While Kevin has immediate post-grad job plans, Jordan is taking things slower, looking at postgrad education (maybe online) and taking his time.

“It takes two more years usually to get licensed, not very long. I hopefully will be about 22 when I get all that done.

But I might have to wait a year,” he said, “which is fine. I’m young. I can wait a bit.”

He also hopes to find some kind of job, maybe helping the developmentally disabled, while continuing his education. A lot of the dirty work that not a lot of people like to talk about, like helping other people, is what psych grads do until they are licensed, he noted.

No more dirty work for Kevin, though.

“I’m actually looking forward to going out and buying a suit,” he said, “because I’ve never had one in my life … I never needed one.”

As for his past life in the restaurant and hospitality business, Kevin said he misses the people. But armed with a degree, if he goes back now, it will be at the corporate level.

“I wish I would have done it right the first time,” he said. “But I’m absolutely amazed and proud I came back because I think for people that are my age, that’s a really hard step to actually make yourself go back and just do it.”

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WAYNE STATE COLLEGE STUDENTS look forward to graduating in the Willow Bowl, an outdoor amphitheater on the southwest corner of campus.

“It’s a big deal,” said Jay Collier, director of college relations at Wayne State.

“It’s always a disappointment when they can’t because of the weather.”

In case of inclement weather, Collier, who also sits on the graduation committee, said Wayne State has to have an alternate location ready to go: Rice Auditorium.

“Logistically is can be a little difficult, but we’ve done it for so many years that we’re kind of a well-oiled machine,” he said of preparing two locations.

A couple months before graduation, Collier said, all of the people responsible for putting together the graduation ceremony meet. He said they make sure everyone understands his or her specific duties and then they begin checking off what has already been done.

“We have a spreadsheet that covers every aspect of the ceremony,” he said.

Bringing the undergraduate ceremony indoors, Collier admitted, can cause some issues.

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Above: Kurt Hackemer, professor of history and chair of the history department at the University of South Dakota, is shown on the Dakota Dome floor with graduates prior to the commencement ceremony. Top: Graduates are shown during a ceremony in the Willow Bowl at Wayne State College.

friends who would like to be in Rice Auditorium for the ceremony, but because seating is limited there, we just explain to them, ‘Look, the graduate received four tickets. They had to give those to whoever they felt was the highest priority,’” he explained.

Collier recalled one year where multiple days of rain prior to the graduation ceremony saturated the ground in the Willow Bowl so much so that even though the sun was out, the ceremony

had to be held indoors.

“There was absolutely no way that we could put chairs and what else we needed on it for the ceremony,” he said. “Typically we know the day before whether we’re going to be out there or not.”

No one is ever truly happy when the ceremony has to be moved indoors, but Collier said they’ve never had an “incident” arise because of it.

The Dakota Dome is the site for both winter and spring graduations at the

University of South Dakota in Vermillion.

Registrar Jennifer Thompson said USD used to hold an outdoor spring ceremony on the lawn in several different locations, but that practice was discontinued in 2009. She said a budget issue was the cause, not weather.

The Dakota Dome, Thompson said, is large enough to accommodate the crowd that will gather on graduation day, which means that the university doesn’t have to worry about printing tickets.

“It’s a first-come, first-served based upon seating. The students don’t have to reserve tickets. The majority of their family can come,” she said. “Our spring commencement is generally full, but we have enough seats for everybody.”

Campus security, Thompson said, is on site to take care of any crowd control issues that might arise. Student marshals and roping, she said, keep spectators from venturing into areas where they are not allowed.

“We usually don’t have an issue with it,” she said.

Student marshals at Wayne State are also responsible for making sure that graduates are dressed appropriately.

“We have students who on top of their graduation cap will put, ‘Thanks, Mom!,’” Collier said. “We don’t have a problem with that. We do ask that the student coupon

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Matt Moen, dean of the College of Arts & Sciences at the University of South Dakota, presents a graduate with a degree at the Dakota Dome during a commencement ceremony.

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STORM LAKE, IOWA | DR. JAMES HAMPTON, professor of biology, wears a robe on the first day and the last day of class at Buena Vista University in Storm Lake each year.

Founder’s Day is the day the school year begins; Commencement Day is the day it ends.

Hampton, a 19-year veteran at BVU, would like to add a third day in which professors would dress in sartorial – and academic – splendor. It would be Sept. 27, the date Old Main, an historic campus center, burned to the ground in 1956.

What’s one more day?

According to Hampton, the deans wore robes like this to class every day at the University of Oxford in England. Might be where the commencement robe tradition can trace its roots. Actually, it might be even earlier. Hampton says this was the dress style for men in the middle ages.

Seems that only religious entities and higher education have kept these robes around.

“I think it would be fun to wear this gown one extra day,” says Hampton, while pulling his robe, cap and hood from a couple of boxes on his office shelf.

Hampton’s gown is a gift from his parents, who paid $600 to buy it as he earned his doctorate in genetics and development from Cornell University in Ithaca, N.Y. “I did consider the colors when my parents bought this,” says Hampton. “I was asked what my (academic) discipline was, come to think of it.”

Buena Vista University offers a section called “Notes on Academic Regalia” in each commencement program. Gowns, caps and hoods used for academic occasions are colorful, reflecting the area of study.

“Everyone earning a college degree is entitled to wear a black robe on appropriate occasions,” it reads. “Trimming and tassel colors vary according to subject field. Faculty members always wear hoods for academic occasions. Hoods are generally black, trimmed with velvet in the color of subject field, and are lined with the colors of the college conferring the degree.

“The bachelor’s, master’s and the doctor’s hoods differ in the length and width of their velvet borders.”

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ABOUT THOSE COLORS According to the commencement program provided by Buena Vista University, here are the colors that represent areas of learning, as established by the American Council on Education.

Business Administration Commerce, and Accountancy - Drab/ Sapphire Blue Chiropody - Nile Green Dentistry - Lilac Economics - Copper Education (Pedagogy) Light Blue Engineering - Orange Fine Arts and Architecture - Brown Forestry - Russet Journalism - Crimson Law - Purple Library Science - Lemon Dr. James Hampton, professor of biology, is shown sporting his graduation gown at his workspace, the Estelle Siebens Science Center on the campus of Buena Vista University in Storm Lake, Iowa. Hampton wears his gown twice per year, on the first day of the academic year and the last day of the academic year. He’d like to add a third, on the anniversary of the day Old Main, an historic building on campus, burned. The fire took place Sept. 27, 1956.

such as Kappa Delta Pi, the national honor society for education majors.

Students involved in a course of study overseas may wear a different sash, such a white one with a flag, and students in BVU’s Honors Program wear a drape ribbon with a medallion displaying the official seal of the university.

A sidebar with this story shows a list of colors established by the American Council on Education to represent the departments of learning.

While Hampton’s robe has royal blue in it, the reverse of his hood is bright red, the school colors for the “Big Red” of Cornell.

Historically, the hood was worn to cover one’s head during bad weather back in the 12th and 13th centuries, BVU’s notes section explains.

Today, it is purely ceremonial, detached from the gown.

“The level of the degree achieved is indicated by the size of the hood,” the commencement program shows. “The discipline in which the degree has been earned is indicated by the color of the border on the hood.”

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LIFE AFTER COLLEGE CAN BE AS traumatic as life after birth if you’re not ready. But help has been available for the Class of 2013.

College career counselors have been there to steer each student through that four-year birth passage and into a new world of work and living.

“For the most part, the generation of traditional college students who graduate are ready for the real world,” said Stacie Hays Hays, career counselor at Morningside College.

“Well, maybe not all of them,” Nancy McGuire, assistant dean of student development at Briar Cliff University, said of today’s seniors. “Some of them are scrambling. I go McGuire to classes and give them little sessions early on in the year and try to get them prepped.

I like to tell them … they need to volunteer, they need to get involved, they need to look for internships.”

But it’s not a shock to most members of the Class of 2013 who are ready, they agreed.

“When they come here, it’s about the job. It’s about polishing up their resume, getting their credential files, looking at their portfolios, how to do a job search, those types of things,” McGuire said.

One session students shared with Sioux City Go members proved an eyeopener.

“It was interesting,” McGuire said.

“Everybody who talked to the students all said you need to learn how to golf.

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Briar Cliff University student Kayla Jones, a senior from Thornton, Colorado, talks to Nancy McGuire, Assistant Dean of Student Development, as she receives help with her resume.

It’s a good networking tool.”

KNOW THE PROCESS What most surprises students is not the trouble they can get into posting inappropriate material on their Facebook pages. By now, undergrads know all they need to know about that stuff.

“I would say the thing that surprises them the most is just that there is a process,” Hays said. “Like if I sit down with a student and say, ‘How are you looking for work?’ They might say, well, I am just on the Internet. Just being on the Internet is not an appropriate way to look for a job. There’s a lot of networking involved.”

Once students learn about the process, however, they are pretty flexible

and adaptable, she noted.

Having an electronic portfolio brimming with community service and extracurricular activities, said McGuire, is essential for landing an internship or a full-time job, but there are other things college students need to be aware of before they send out their resumes and sit down for that first interview.

Social media is a big deal in today’s world. And while students know what stuff to not snapshot or tweet or put on their Facebook page, they often don’t realize how often employers Google job applicants.

During one session McGuire held with a Briar Cliff business class, she had the students Google each other, pretending they were hiring for a

position.

McGuire said companies turn to Google and social media to see if they can back up what the applicant has on their resume and also get a sense of their personality.

“I think it’s really to see, are they going to fit culturally within our workplace?,” she said.

DRESS FOR SUCCESS Briar Cliff offers “The Business Professional” to help students get a leg up in the working world. The day-long course focuses on educating students about internships, resume writing, cover letters, the interview process, post-graduate plans and managing an online identity. The course includes a mock interview lunch at Minerva’s restaurant where the students critique each other.

The students are also required to dress as they would for a day of interviewing.

A black or navy suit, said Anne Garreans, assistant professor of business administration and management information systems at BCU, is expected for men and women interviewing for a business position. A graphic design major may wear a suit, but add a touch of color.

“What job you are looking for is going to determine what you’re going to wear,” she said.

McGuire said students with tattoos and piercings need to think ahead and consider how important their body art is to them.

“If that nose ring is

more important to you than the possibility of this job, then don’t go to that job,” she said. “If you have a sense that you’re going to have to remove it, and that violates your personal code, then you’re not a good fit for that company.”

A TWO-WAY STREET Hays said one of the biggest changes she has seen in recent years is the way she communicates with students, which includes tweeting job postings.

“It’s much more emaildriven. It’s a lot more finding them on Facebook or tweeting out,” she said.

It is also important to help students find the balance between their social media expertise and the way they prefer to communicate and the way the employer is going to prefer to communicate when they apply for a job.

“Sometimes it’s bringing them down just a little bit to meet their employer where they’re at,” Hays said. “And other times that social media experience is something that actually helps them get the job because they have some expertise that other candidates don’t necessarily have.”

Sometimes students’ expectations may be a little high, McGuire noted.

“They may think they’re going to walk in and be the boss, which doesn’t work,” she said. “We have little realitycheck conversations when that happens.”

Mark Samuelson, a junior business administration and marketing major at

“I would say the thing that surprises them the most is just that there is a process. Like if I sit down with a student and say, ‘How are you looking for work?’They might say, well, I am just on the Internet. Just being on the Internet is not an appropriate way to look for a job. There’s a lot of networking involved.”

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Briar Cliff University student Kayla Jones, a senior from Thornton, Colorado, receives help with her resume.

Briar Cliff, recently landed a summer internship with Nutra-Flo. Samuelson said he spent a considerable amount of time polishing his resume. He wore a suit, kept eye contact with the interviewer and tried to be himself.

“I was nervous, but after the initial period I calmed down,” he said. “If you prepare too much, you’re not yourself.

Relax and be yourself.”

DO MORE ONLINE Online applications are another new arena for grads.

“It used to be you’d get your resume and you did your cover letter. You mailed it off and hoped for the best,” McGuire said. “Now (online) you’ve got to make sure all the fields are correct, and they’ll tell you to upload something and it may not upload the way it should.”

As a result, a simple job application online can take up to two hours.

But employers today expect graduates to have a certain technical proficiency.

“More employees are assuming that they will not only know how to operate the computer and all the software but that they will also be pretty up on the social media aspect of things,” Hays said.

Flexibility and adaptability are key today because of an ever-changing economy.

For example, just in the past few years “social media strategist” became an actual job position. It wasn’t something the 2013 grad could have even gone to school to pursue.

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Three generations of a family, Stephanie Dahl, Karlie Dahl and Peg Bucy, will graduate May 17 from Western Iowa Tech Community College.

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MOST GRADUATES HAVE FAMILY IN the audience cheering them on.

Stephanie Dahl will not only have supporters in the audience May 17 at the Tyson Events Center when she graduates from Western Iowa Tech Community College, she will celebrate with her mother Peg Bucy and her daughter Karlie Dahl as degree recipients.

Stephanie originally chose WITCC because it was affordable and close to home.

“When I began attending class, I knew it was a perfect choice for me, being a nontraditional student,” she said. “I love the small class sizes, fun activities and friendly staff.”

Originally, Stephanie had attended Wayne State College, with the goal of achieving a degree in special education.

“When life began to throw obstacles in my direction, I had to decrease my class time and increase my time as a wife and mother as well as a full-time employee,” she said.

Stephanie, 42, continued to take classes in the evening and on weekends.

Upon moving to South Sioux City, she had to change colleges due to the distance to Wayne.

“I looked around and visited colleges and decided to try WITCC,” she said. “I then began taking more courses online, working on my coaching endorsement, early childhood education, childcare

administration, child development and administrative medical assistant degrees.”

The three women support each other in a variety of ways, what Stephanie called each other’s “cheerleaders.”

“Karlie is a resource to refresh Mom and me on the basic education information since she is the most recent high school graduate,” Stephanie reported.

For Stephanie, the biggest challenge associated with college was finding the time to study and attend classes as a nontraditional student with the many other commitments in her life.

Peg Bucy chose WITCC because her daughter Stephanie and both granddaughters, Tomi Jo and Karlie, were going there.

“I needed a career that would work for my physical abilities as I am getting to an age that limits my capabilities,” she said.

“I decided I needed to use my mind as my body is wearing out quickly. Hopefully, my mind holds out for a while longer.”

Bucy gave credit to her family with helping with her college experience.

“I would have never overcome my fear of computers had it not been for them,” she said. “They were my rocks.”

After being out of an academic atmosphere for more than 40 years, Bucy confessed it was “a whole new game out there.”

“I had many challenges when I first went to WITCC, all having to do with learning to use the computer and learning how to study after all my years out of

school,” she said. “I had my ‘girls’ helping every step of the way, never losing patience with me. How? I’ll never know.”

For Bucy, 61, the greatest joy in her college journey is the awarding of the degree.

“It was always a goal of mine for my girls to get their degrees but not until Stephanie encouraged me to go with her did I ever think I would ever be a college graduate,” she said. “I am so thankful for my ‘College Years.’”

Karlie chose WITCC because her mother raved about it.

“I seriously considered running track in college because it was my passion during high school, but I decided to focus on completing my education without playing sports,” she said.

Karlie, 19, has also enjoyed the camaraderie of having Mom and Grandma around the campus.

“Some of the classes I am taking they have had before so they give me tips,” she said. “It is always fun having my grandma in class because she treats the class to her wonderful cookies and treats. My mom is my inspiration to keep working toward my goals.”

As for the future, Stephanie’s husband Tom Dahl – a 1985 WITCC grad in the rental management program – and children think she is finished with college, but some of her close friends and instructors joke about what might her next educational endeavor be.

Stephanie’s reply?

“Maybe an electrician or politician?”

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“The Victory Arch” is a central figure in the commencement ceremony at Buena Vista University in Storm Lake, Iowa. As freshmen, students begin “Founder’s Day” at BVU by marching west-to-east from Siebens Fieldhouse to Schaller Memorial Chapel.

On commencement day, the route reverses as seniors march from Schaller Chapel through “The Arch” on their way to the ceremony at Siebens Fieldhouse.

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STORM LAKE, IOWA | SERENA Geisinger remembers being a bit unimpressed four years ago when she walked from Siebens Fieldhouse east toward Schaller Memorial Chapel across the campus at Buena Vista University in Storm Lake.

Geisinger, who hails from Lawton, Iowa, hadn’t yet taken a class at BVU, a few days from her first day of instruction.

Founder’s Day, they call it here. First day for freshmen.

All freshmen march from the fieldhouse to the chapel, passing through “The Arch,” a stone archway encased in a brick wall that stands high atop the Harold Walter Siebens School of Business/Siebens Forum. Stones forming “The Arch” were salvaged from Old Main, the historic hub of Buena Vista College, when it burned to the ground on Sept. 27, 1956.

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Ron Husted plays bagpipes to lead the procession into the commencement ceremony at Buena Vista University in Storm Lake, Iowa.

Old Main’s loss, for a brief time, threw into some question the very longterm viability of the small Presbyterian

college on the shores of Storm Lake.

BV survived, prospered and has since graduated tens of thousands of

students. For decades they’ve passed through “The Arch” as incoming freshman, and then as seniors, they reverse that path, heading under “The Arch” on their way to the BVU commencement ceremony at Siebens Fieldhouse.

Geisinger admits she’ll feel a lot different about this tradition come May. “On Founder’s Day as a freshman I felt nothing as I walked through ‘The Arch’ on my way to the chapel,” she says. “It was part of this monotonous ceremony. I just wanted to go meet new friends.”

Dr. Keith Betts, BVU’s vice president for student services and dean of students at the time, told them they’d one day get chills passing back through “The Arch” on their way to graduation.

“He’s right,” Geisinger says. “Buena Vista has become my second family. I’ve come to know so many people here through our shared experiences. It means everything to me.”

While “The Arch” is one long-held tradition, there are others. For example, bagpiper Ron Husted leads the procession as the line of seniors and professors makes the walk on a Sunday in May from Schaller Chapel to Siebens Fieldhouse.

At Northwestern College in Orange City, Iowa, the commencement ceremony is held on a Saturday morning in May. Graduates are seated by department and each department chair reads the names of graduates.

Students will often approach to shake hands or hug the department chair. And, at times, they’ll offer something like a Diet Coke to the department chair if that’s their favorite drink. It’s an inside joke of sorts that brings a little laughter from the crowd.

After greeting the chair, students proceed and shake hands with the president.

A Friday night baccalaureate service at Christ Chapel on the NWC campus features a cord-cutting tradition. Four faculty and staff members stand to give a blessing to each graduate at baccalaureate. Students may choose who they want to go for their blessing, a selection that shows how close students have grown to their professors in their time at Northwestern.

After the blessing, seniors stand on stage and hold three cords: red, white and gold, the strands of which represent the Trinity and unity in the death and resurrection of Christ.

President Greg Christy and a faculty member cut the cord at each student, allowing them to take strands of each away from Northwestern. The strands serve as a reminder of the bond they share in the Holy Spirit.

Shelby Johnson, a math major from Akron, Iowa, gets a hug at the Northwestern College commencement ceremony. Johnson teaches math at Charter Oak-Ute High School in Charter Oak, Iowa.

Megan Parnell, a business administration major from Fairmont, Minn., is shown accepting her diploma at the Northwestern College commencement exercise.

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JUGGLING

Meredith Davies-Vogt, talks to her second grade students at St. Michael’s School in South Sioux City.

Davies-Vogt is a student at Northeast Community College and is student teaching at St. Michael’s School.

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EVERY WEEKDAY, MEREDITH DAVIESVogt has her hands full, student-teaching rambunctious second graders at St. Michael’s Catholic School in South Sioux City.

And when she gets home, the Sioux City woman takes care of her own family, which includes husband Ron and their six children.

“Yeah, I think having a big family helps my teaching,” Davies-Vogt explained. “Being a mom has taught me to be pretty fearless when taking care of kids.”

That isn’t to say going back to school wasn’t intimidating.

“When I graduated from high school (in 2003), I knew I wasn’t ready for college,” Davies-Vogt admitted. “I was too friends-driven, not education-driven at the time.”

But with the support of husband Ron and children Ronny, 10, Aaliyah, 5, and twins Carson and Madison, 3, she decided to enroll at Northeast Community

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College for an associate degree in 2010, and a bachelor’s degree in elementary education from Wayne State College, which she will receive this month.

During her time in college, DaviesVogt also gave birth to sons Bentley, 1, and Kyler, 2 months old.

Plus Ron, a U.S. Army Reserves member, served a 12-month overseas tour of duty, which made Davies-Vogt a single parent for her growing family.

“You make the best-laid plans but sometimes life gets in the way,” she said.

Still Davies-Vogt was able to juggle school, family as well as her student teaching without a hitch.

“It wasn’t easy,” she admitted, “but I was committed to making things work.”

This is a sentiment shared by many older, non-traditional students like Davies-Vogt, said Pam Miller, dean of the South Sioux City Education College Center.

Above: Second-grade student Marisol Quezada writes numbers for the date for student-teacher Meredith Davies-Vogt at St. Michael’s School in South Sioux City.

Right: Davies-Vogt gives Quezada the marker to write on the board.

“Non-traditional students are often more focused and career-driven than students who have just graduated from high school,” Miller said, adding that her school’s student base is a mix of both.

A partnership between Northeast

Community College and Wayne State College, the College Center allows students to continue their education without having to leave Siouxland.

Instead, they can take classes at the College Center’s South Sioux City satellite school.

That was a deciding factor for DaviesVogt, who had a family to look after.

“Financially and time-wise, I wouldn’t have been able to attend school if I had to commute a great distance,” she said.

“Being able to take classes in South Sioux City was very convenient for me.”

Becoming a teacher would also fulfill a lifelong dream for Davies-Vogt, who remembered helping her kid brother with his homework while growing up.

“As a kid, I thought I had what it takes to become a teacher,” she said confidently. “Now, I’m convinced of it.”

Jennifer Schroeder, a St. Michael’s second grade teacher is also convinced that Davies-Vogt has the right stuff.

“Meredith has a real connection with the kiddos,” Schroeder said. “I think it’s because she’s a mom herself.”

Davies-Vogt doesn’t dispute being a mom has helped her teaching.

In fact, many of her education lessons have been tested on her children.

“I don’t like calling my kids ‘guinea pigs’ but I will try math and science

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games on them before trying them in the classroom,” Davies-Vogt said. “If it’s fun for my kids, I know my students will enjoy it as well.”

Interacting with her students, DaviesVogt is clearly in her element.

Looking at the calendar, she realized her days as a college student are quickly coming to an end.

“I’ve been sending my resume everywhere and keeping my fingers crossed,” Davies-Vogt said.

Still, she’ll be proud of her accomplishments when she graduates in May. “Teaching isn’t a profession for everyone but it’s the right profession for me,” Davies-Vogt said with a smile. “I am so happy I had the opportunity to follow my dream.”

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MAPLETON, IOWA | SCOTT BREYFOGLE received two monumental Christmas gifts this year.

No. 1: He and wife Rachael celebrated the birth of their first child, son Wesley Reed Breyfogle, who entered the world on Dec. 20.

No. 2: Scott learned about that time he no longer had to make student loan payments. His $15,000 in student debt had been retired!

OK, the first gift easily outweighs the second. Still, this is a story about student debt levels in higher education. So, we’ll focus on the latter with a glance toward the former.

The Institute for College Access reported last fall that the average studentloan debt in the collegiate class of 2011 rose 5 percent to $26,500. Nearly twothirds of those who earned bachelor’s degrees in 2011 took out loans to help finance their educational journeys. That number is 76 percent in South Dakota.

Breyfogle was part of that loan-taking crowd before his graduation in 2007 from South Dakota State University.

“Six months after graduation, you start paying back the loans,” said Breyfogle, 29.

The rookie math teacher at Maple Valley/Anthon-Oto High School in Mapleton

began writing checks for $115 per month.

Keep in mind, Breyfogle’s debt load was cut thanks to a football scholarship that paid his way as a fifth-year senior.

Breyfogle also qualified for partial athletic aid during his sophomore and junior seasons at the state school.

“I also had quite a few scholarships to help pay the first year,” he says, noting he qualified for SDSU’s “Jackrabbit Guarantee” that allows students whose ACT scores exceed 24 to qualify for $1,000 in aid in each of four years.

“I know there are other colleges who have programs like that,” he adds.

At Mount Marty College, a private college, in nearby Yankton, S.D., for example, 99.1 percent of full-time students receive financial aid; 98.3 percent earn some sort of Mount Marty assistance via grants or scholarships; and 87.2 percent receive academic assistance, similar to the “Jackrabbit Guarantee” Breyfogle earned.

“The initial sticker shock of a private school is hard to overcome sometimes,” says Jill Paulson, director of admissions at Mount Marty College. “We try to say that we’re often able to close that gap.”

The average financial aid package for a full-time Mount Marty student comes to $19,337.

“We feel lucky in a sense that we are one of the more affordable colleges in the Midwest,” Paulson adds.

Maple Valley/AnthonOto High School math teacher Scott Breyfogle paid off student loans early thanks to a program that rewards teachers who instruct in “need” areas like math and science.

The affordability of Breyfogle’s education at South Dakota State was boosted when he and coworker Erin Yoder, a science teacher at MVAO High School, investigated a program for teachers in designated “high-need” academic areas like math and science.

Breyfogle learned he could have up to 20 percent of his student loan balance paid for via this program.

Breyfogle went into math education because he liked math. He didn’t enter the profession because it had a shortage of teachers in the Midwest. The fact he did was a blessing.

“I had only two job interviews and I was offered a job at both places,” he says.

A second student loan program aimed at teachers in shortage areas offered to pay up to $17,000 in loans for instructors who stayed at their respective position for five years.

Last summer, Breyfogle qualified for this program. He used it to pay whatever balance he had remaining. And he forgot about it until after the birth of their son.

“I didn’t know until I looked online,” he remembers. “I looked for what I owed and it was all zeroes. I printed it off and showed it to my wife.”

Celebrate? Not really. There were diapers to buy.

“Maybe this was in the plans all along,” Breyfogle says with a laugh.

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VERMILLION, S.D. | Chelsea Tieszen felt a great deal of anxiety when she opened the envelope that held her residency acceptance letter.

The University of South Dakota fourth-year medical student had her heart set on Oregon Health and Science University (OHSU) in Portland.

“I went out there and loved the program,” she said. “I had a great time with the residents. I really felt like I fit in well with them.”

Tieszen’s dream came true. The Yankton, S.D., native, who has always harbored a love for science and working with people, will complete her residency training at Oregon’s only health and research university.

“It turned out just the way I wanted it to, so I feel really fortunate,” she said.

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The Sanford School of Medicine’s 2013 graduating class of 53 students chose 16 different specialties and will train in 23 different states. Nine students (17 percent of the class) will train in residencies in South Dakota for at least their first year.

Medical residents fall somewhere between student and employee. They’re considered doctors, but they’re also students who are still learning.

“They are making some more initial considerations and decisions, but they’re obviously checked by the attending, as opposed to the attending making all of the decisions like they saw in medical school,” said Nedd Brown, associate dean of graduate medical education at USD. “They learn the decision-making process.

Now they’re applying it more.”

THE RIGHT FIT During their fourth year, Brown said medical students interview at various programs across the nation that fit well with their specialty area.

“If they want to be a pediatrician, a lot of them will come here and look at our pediatrics hospital and they’ll go all around,” he said. “We as a hiring body go through and look at all the candidates we interview and then we rank them.”

Medical students do the same, ranking their top medical programs. Both lists, Brown said, are entered into a national database. Then algorithm software matches the students up with medical programs.

“If they’re our first choice and we’re their first choice, we will get that person,” he said.

Tieszen is currently pursing internal medicine, the gateway to medical subspecialties such as cardiology and pulmonology.

“Right now I’m going into residency thinking that I could probably be happy doing general internal medicine, but if I kind of find I’m gravitating toward a certain sub-specialty, I’d definitely pursue it,” she said.

Tieszen, who wound up getting her first choice, said the selection process was “overwhelming.” She focused her search on programs located in the Midwest and western regions of the country.

“I got to spend a month in Seattle during my fourth year doing a rotation at the VA hospital, and I really loved the Pacific Northwest,” she said.

The majority of students, Brown said, get the highest choice that they want.

“It’s not like a regular job interview where you go and they like you and you’re hired,” he said. “It’s out of anyone’s essential control as far as the final decision, but yet it is in your control as far as where you could end up and who you do 44

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end up have working for you.”

ROTATION REVELATIONS Tieszen is currently working with a psychiatrist at the Human Services Center in Yankton. During the two-week rotation, she is admitting patients, rounding, dictating reports and helping make decisions regarding patients’ treatment plans.

“I wanted to do this rotation because I know I’ll see a lot of psychiatric patients in internal medicine, so I thought it would be great to get some additional experience out here before going into residency,” she said. “I feel like I’m really being actively involved in the patient care here, rather than just shadowing.”

Tieszen said there is an enormous amount of information that she still needs to learn. The most challenging aspect of the transition from medical student to resident, she said, will be making decisions about patient care.

“I think it’ll be good because it will

force us to think a lot more and inevitably that will help us to learn a lot more at kind of an exponential rate,” she said. “I know I’m going to be questioning myself all the time and asking people about the decisions I want to make. I’m just not going to feel very confident right off the bat.”

Brown said the number of hours residents work is also a big adjustment. The maximum amount of hours they can work in day, he said, is 16.

“There’s not only studying to do to keep up with what’s current, but you’re also working more hours at a time in a shift,” he said. “Once they’ve been in residency longer and they’ve learned the skills and the tools, then they can work a full 24-hour shift like you hear about.”

Tieszen expects to be tired all of the time when she begins her residency.

“I think the time is really going to fly by and sometimes I won’t feel like I have enough time during the day to get things done,” she said. “I’m kind of mentally prepared for it I think, or I hope.”

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ADVICE Medical Answers

‘DOC, I’VE GOT A QUESTION …’ answers to your medical questions

I cut my finger last night and couldn’t get it to stop bleeding quickly.

Are there some things I should have done to slow it down, like hold my hand upside down? I know if it’s really bad I should get stitches.

OK, grab a towel and quit donating blood to the carpet. The immediate steps to take after sustaining a cut, or laceration, is to clean the wound and then stop the bleeding. Run the cut under tap water for a minute or so.

Running water on a wound will decrease the amount of harmful germs that may be present. Holding direct pressure on the injury will slow the bleeding significantly.

This will also give the platelets in your blood a chance to start forming a clot.

The important thing is to sustain the pressure. Don’t peek, keep holding pressure.

In regards to where to hold the injury, it is better to keep the injury above the level of your heart. This will use gravity to your advantage. In most minor injuries holding pressure and elevation can thwart the bleeding. At this point, a butterfly or strip style bandage can be applied to bring the wound edges together.

If there is significant depth or length to the wound or if the bleeding continues, call your clinic or head to the emergency room as needed for wound repair. Keep in mind that aspirin, ibuprofen, blood thinners and fish oil may increase the time that it takes to clot.

What are the signs of prostate cancer?

Prostate cancer is the second most common cause of cancer in men worldwide. It is estimated that around 30,000 men will die from prostate cancer in the U.S. in 2013. Unfortunately, prostate cancer does not typically present with any specific symptoms. It is very common for men past the age of 50 to have symptoms associated with the enlargement of their prostate gland. Symptoms such as trouble starting or stopping urination and inability to fully empty the bladder typically indicate an enlarged prostate.

But this does not signify the presence of cancer. Most prostate cancers are detected using a blood test called prostate specific antigen or PSA. The PSA needs to be used in combination with a prostate exam in the diagnostic process. Your doctor will exam the prostate for any abnormal nodules, asymmetry or enlargement. Based on the results, referral to a urologist may be recommended.

I’ve been told we get a layer of fat over the winter that’s hard to get rid of. But does it tend to come off faster when the weather turns nice? I always think I’m better at dieting in the summer months.

We don’t get the layer of fat without working toward it. Fat accumulation occurs in humans as an energy storage system. If more calories are coming in than we need to provide enough energy for our bodies, we will store those extra calories as fat. As a society, we are typically less active during the winter months.

We also tend to eat quite a bit of food and sweets during the winter holidays.

This results in an excess of calories being consumed with less being burned. Being more active in the summer and having less food around does make it easier to eat better. I recommend being conscious about the amount of calories that are being consumed. Not only when you diet but at all times. Unfortunately, there is nothing special about the weather that changes our body composition.

WHAT KINDS OF HEALTH QUESTIONS DO YOU HAVE? Submit your questions and they may be used in this monthly feature. Write to Siouxland Life at 515 Pavonia St., Sioux City, Iowa 51102.

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MEET THE DOC Dr. Nick Bechtold is a family medicine resident at Family Medicine Center.

He grew up in Sioux City, graduating from Bishop Heelan Catholic High School and Briar Cliff University.

Before pursuing his career as a physician, he spent a couple of years in Omaha and Iowa City working at research labs and a biotech company. He graduated from Des Moines University and returned to his favorite corner of Iowa with his wife Karla.

Why do the knees tend to go first?

We use them…a lot! The knee is one of the weight-bearing joints of the body. This joint is composed of three long bones and the knee cap, or patella. The knee joint is held together with ligaments and tendons that are connected to the bones and muscles above and below the joint. The bones are protected from grinding against each other with rings of cartilage, each ring is called a meniscus. Every time you walk, jump, kneel, kick and run, your knee is engaged. And, like any mechanical object, frequent use will cause wear and tear.

The wear and tear on the knee may result in defects in the protective coverings of the bone and may lead to knee discomfort or arthritis. The onset of damage varies from person to person. Any abnormal injury to the knee such as twisting, falling or getting hit, can cause a large or small amount of trauma to the joint and result in earlier onset of pain or impaired function of the knee joint. Because the knee is a weight-bearing joint, the extra pounds from obesity will ruin a knee quite prematurely. Less weight on the knee will decrease the stress on the joint.

The knee is held in place by ligaments and tendons. Keeping the muscles around the knee joint strong with exercise will provide support and protection. Jobs or sports requiring repetitive bending, squatting, kneeling, or quick turns and pivots, may result in earlier knee damage. Caring for the knee joint involves warming up the joint before activity, wearing protective equipment, and maintaining a healthy weight. Returning to work/play only with adequate rehab and appropriate amount of stress to the knee is very important. It cannot be stressed enough that weight loss and exercise are incredibly important for maintaining a healthy knee joint.

PARTING SHOT By Bruce Miller

YOU LEARN A LOT FROM WOMEN ON A CAFFEINE HIGH

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WHEN I WAS 8 YEARS OLD, I WAS utterly fascinated with my mom’s friends – none more than Bobbie, a woman who carried three bottles of Coke in her purse.

Like me, she was afraid someone might try to pass off a Pepsi, so she brought her own. The three bottles went in the refrigerator as soon as she arrived and if “the girls” (as dad called them) decided to switch to something other than coffee, those bottles were left for my disposal.

A doctor’s wife, Bobbie also had the Coke truck stop at her house once a week. For an 8-year-old it was the ultimate sign of luxury.

She wasn’t alone, though. Helen, another friend, came over one day and told mom she was exhausted.“What happened?” mom asked.“The TV Guide came and I spent the whole day reading it.”

Like I said, my kind of people.

One day another friend (who shall go nameless because the guilty are still among us) told us she was going to bring some rosettes she had baked but her husband and daughter got in them and cleaned her out. She had made four dozen.

For the most part, “the girls” drank more coffee than three airports could hold, ate cookies and gossiped about the women who weren’t in the house.

Sometimes mom ironed. Sometimes she cracked the liquor. That loosened the lips a bit and, as a lurking 8-year-old, I heard quite a bit.

A woman from church, for example, was staying late at choir practice because she was, um, rehearsing with the choir director. Nine months later, there was a little addition to the choir and he didn’t look like any of her other kids. Mind you, I’m not one to gossip (guess where that line came from), but there was talk.

Frequently, Nena, a woman down the street, would breeze in and bring her much-younger son who, often, upset my inside track on the news. For some reason, she thought I would want to play with the stupid kid. Basically, I’d try to get him interested in some toy I didn’t like so that I could get back to listening.

The kid, meanwhile, could be a pain, particularly since his mom coddled him and mine gushed. Nena, you see, was from

Mexico and she believed children should learn two languages from birth. This immediately raised Roberto’s standing and lowered mine. Occasionally, she’d try to toss a word in my direction but I wasn’t catching. When I look back on it, she was probably swearing at poor Roberto half the time but none of us knew the truth. Mom just thought he was highly superior and worthy of two cookies instead of her Coke-drinking son’s one.

Ruth, a rich woman who always looked like she had a nip before she arrived, usually had the best gossip and a tip for an 8-year-old who could get her a refill. She’d crack the purse, pull out a one dollar bill, slip it to me (like I was the waiter) and wink. I knew she was dabbling a little sooner than the others when that $1 would actually turn out to be a $5. But her secret was good with me.

On those rare occasions when mom would haul me with to other friends’ homes, I wouldn’t resist – particularly when we were headed to Stella’s. Stella not only had a piano, she also had an organ and she wasn’t picky about who played it. Convinced I had what it took to be a church organist, she let me play to my heart’s content as long as I used the soft pedal. “The Phantom of the Opera” had a shorter repertoire than I and I know he never finished with “How Great Thou Art.” As long as I didn’t disrupt “the girls,” I was golden.

Once, they let a male hairdresser visit and, since he worked in Minneapolis, they all decided he should do their hair. “For kicks,” mom thought I should let him cut mine, too. I did, but no one bothered to vet the guy before he started shearing. In the end, we all looked alike.

I, unfortunately, couldn’t plop a wiglet on my head and get away with it.

Instead, I just sucked it up, knowing if we hit Bobbie’s house on the way home, I was almost guaranteed a Coke and that would make things better.

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